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Author of 'God and the Quran' and 'The Prophet of Mercy. Rationalist Muslim. https://t.co/7uvGQSxyty
May 20, 2025 27 tweets 4 min read
Pride before a Fall: India's disastrous adventure, a thread🧵
Before it launched an unprovoked attack on civilian targets in Pakistan on May 7, India's leadership, media and a large part of its public felt assured of India's superiority over Pakistan./1 Image The Indian public had become used to being told that their country was something exceptional, some kind of 'master race' who were feared, admired and respected whilst Pakistan was a 'beggar' country despised for exporting terrorism worldwide./2
Jul 10, 2024 27 tweets 5 min read
'Red-pill' Muslims vs the Golden Rule & the Qur'an: A thread🧵/1 Image The 'unapologetic' and 'red pill' pro child marriage and pro concubinage 'dawah bros', like to claim that theirs is the 'true Islam' untainted by compromise with 'western liberalism'. This thread will argue what they advocate is actually opposed to the Quran/2
Jul 4, 2024 21 tweets 3 min read
Rabbanic 'Islam'? A thread 🧵
Studying the Qur'an on its own terms, I realised that whilst it teaches universal ideals, there are some hadith/fatawa that run totally parallel to it making petty, non-quranic additions to Islam These mostly originate from the rabbis. 1/ Image The Qur'an shows no antipathy to dogs, actually the opposite (Q 5:4, 18:8) some hadith do, as did the Rabbis : Dog owners are cursed (Bava Kamma 8:38), their good deeds deducted (Bukhari, 2145)/2
Apr 12, 2024 13 tweets 2 min read
How the West Was lost - where modern civilization lost it's way /1 There are great things about the West, many of them fully compatible with religious / tradutional values. However it seems to be that the Western lifestyle is not the utopian dream beloved of our desi mulhids/2
Oct 10, 2023 25 tweets 4 min read
Quran only vs Qur'an and Mutawatir Sunnah vs Qur'an and Hadith: thread 🧵/1 @mahmud2008 @Abraham81891703 Please read my previous pinned thread on Quranism and also these two posts for if you haven't: and /2nadeemarif.com/why-i-am-not-a…
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Oct 6, 2023 19 tweets 3 min read
Questioning Quran-ism, a thread 🧵/1 Do people like me, who believe that Islam consists of both Qur'an and the mutawatir sunnah - but not Hadith or akhbar al ahaad (see detailed article here: 'have a low view of the Qur'an?'/2nadeemarif.com/hadith-and-sun…