The Prophet Ibrahim’s sacrifice is a heart-wrenching story that seems absurd and dangerous. Absurd because it seemingly paints God with a cruel personality; dangerous because it seems to glorify an act of apparent cruelty. In his old age, there was nothing Ibrahim desired more than a son. After waiting for decades, he was finally blessed […]
The Study Quran for Non-Muslim Learners of Islam
When The Study Quran project was first offered to Seyyed Hossein Nasr, he declined.1Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an eminent Islamic philosopher in academia. He did his Master’s degree in Geology and Geophysics at M.I.T, and PhD in History of Science and Learning from Harvard, at the age of 25. See his biography from Closer to […]
Your Life Story: Learning from the ‘Unsuccessful’ in Life
As university students, one of the most useful habits is listening to each life story that others share with you. Instinctively, you want to listen only to the ‘successful’ people: the artists with multi-million followers, the scholars who shift paradigms, or the millionaire entrepreneurs who started from nothing. After all, we can only learn success […]