Knowledge Base

About Islamic Allah

Analysis of the nature, attributes, location, omniscience, and omnipotence of Allah in Islamic theology, along with the philosophical and logical problems arising…

1. Allah the Just vs. Logic: Deconstructing the Test of Adam and the Angels

Absurd Hadiths

A source-based collection and analysis of strange, unscientific, contradictory, or otherwise absurd claims found in hadith literature when examined in light of…

Atheists and Nonreligious Thinkers

Profiles and contributions of notable atheists, skeptics, humanists, and nonreligious thinkers from history and the contemporary world.

1. The Solitary Sherpa: The Life and Philosophy of Aroj Ali Matubbar

Brutality of Prophet Muhammad

An analysis of the violent events in Muhammad's life—including warfare, killings, punishments, and acts of retribution, as well as the treatment of…

1. The brutal killing of a slave woman and the Prophet’s endorsement
2. Desecration of Disbelievers’ Corpses in Islam: Muhammad’s Heinous Brutality Toward Dead Enemies
3. Muhammad Burned and Cut Down Banu Nadir’s Date Palms: Islamic Justifications for Destroying Enemy Property
4. Muhammad’s Brutal Punishment of the Ukl and Uraynah Prisoners: Amputation, Blinding, and Torture

Compilation, Variants, and History of the Quran

Research on the compilation, textual variants (Qira'at), manuscripts, editing, standardization, and the preservation history of the Quran.

1. Reports of Errors in the Quran: Uthman on Lahn and Aisha on Scribal Mistakes
2. The Apostasy of ‘Abdullah ibn Sa‘d ibn Abi Sarh: Why Muhammad’s Revelation Scribe Left Islam
3. A Quran Beneath the Quran: The Harsh Reality of Textual History Revealed by the Sanaa Manuscript

Criticism of Christianity

This category critically examines various aspects of Christianity, including theological claims, Biblical narratives, the historicity of Jesus, the Trinity, sin and salvation,…

1. Apostasy in the Bible: Death by Stoning for Changing Religious Beliefs

Debunking Religious Misinformation and Myths

Fact-checking and refutation of false information, pseudo-scientific claims, distorted history, rumors, and miraculous tales used in religious proselytization.

1. Was Ibn Sina Really a “Muslim Scientist”? Islamic Creed, Mu’tazilite Influence, and the History of Takfir

Evolution

Analysis of biological evolution, natural selection, common ancestry, human evolution, and common misconceptions about evolutionary theory.

FAQ Related to Atheism

1. Dogma or Blind Faith: Is Islam Really Based on Blind Faith?
2. How Can We Learn Morality Without Religion?
3. Why do atheists tend to have higher intelligence or IQ?
4. What Evidence Do Atheists Require for God’s Existence?
5. Celestial Dictatorship and the Primal Psychology of Intellectual Servitude

General Information About Muhammad

A critical knowledge base on Muhammad’s life, actions, political role, personal life, and religious claims in light of Islamic sources, sira, hadith,…

1. Prophet Muhammad’s Profession: Robbery after the Hijrah
2. Other Prophets Contemporary with Muhammad
3. Muhammad’s Revelatory Experiences: Questions of Epilepsy and Mental Health
4. Drinking the Prophet’s Urine, Blood, and Pus: Hadith, Miracle Claims, and Cult of Personality
5. The Mystery of Muhammad’s Birth and the “Sleeping Fetus” Theory in Classical Islamic Law

Grammatical and Factual Errors in the Qur’an

A review of claims concerning linguistic, grammatical, historical, factual, and internal inconsistencies in the Qur’an, with sources and relevant contextual explanations.

1. Maryam, daughter of Imran and sister of Harun?
2. The Death of Jesus, Divine Deception, and Allah’s Responsibility for the Rise of Christianity

Halal and Haram in Islam

Analysis of Islamic rulings regarding halal, haram, impermissible, and forbidden behaviors, alongside an examination of their social and ethical impacts.

1. Living Among Non-Muslims in a Land of Unbelievers Is Haram for Muslims
2. Adult Suckling (Radaʿ al-Kabir): Islam’s Ethical Crisis
3. Prophetic Medicine: Camel Urine Is Halal and Pure in Islam
4. Alcohol in Islam: Religious Prohibitions vs. Scientific and Medical Evidence

Hur, Ghilman and Paradise in Islam

In Islamic theology and descriptions of the afterlife, the concepts of hur, ghilman, and the sexual and pleasure-centered rewards of Paradise occupy…

Hypocrisy of the Ahle Quran

Ahle Quran or Quranists claim to interpret Islam solely on the basis of the Quran while rejecting the authority of Hadith and…

Islamic Aqeeda

Discussion of the sources, meanings, and logical problems of Islamic creed, faith, disbelief, shirk, prophethood, the afterlife, and other fundamental religious beliefs.

1. What is Iman: Islamic Iman Is a Form of Blind Faith
2. Blind Obedience in Islam: The Believer as a Camel Led by a Nose Rope
3. Teaching Children About Other Religions Is Haram in Islam
4. Fighting and Self-Sacrifice to Protect Disbelievers’ Lives and Property Are Forbidden: Religious Discrimination in Islamic Jurisprudence
5. Eternal Hell for Non-Muslims in Islam

Islamic Jinn, Ghosts, Devils, and Angels

An evaluation of the sources, evolution, and scientific assessment of Islamic concepts regarding jinn, devils, angels, unseen entities, magic, and supernatural beliefs.

1. Do Jinn Have Sex with Your Wife? What Islamic Sources Claim
2. Are Devils Chained During Ramadan? Contradictions in Hadith and Conflicts with Reality
3. Did Iblis Know About Muhammad’s Birth and Prophethood? Contradictions in Islamic Narratives
4. Gabriel’s Disguise and Deception: Why Is an Act Forbidden in Islam Permitted for an Angel?

Islamic Pedophilia and Child Marriage

1. Aisha’s Age at Marriage and Consummation: The Full Evidence from Hadith and Islamic Jurisprudence
2. Child Marriage and Intercourse with Underage Wives in the Quran: Surah al-Talaq 65:4 and the Evidence from Tafsir
3. Islamic Sharia Law: Compensation for Genital Injuries Caused by Sexual Intercourse with Child Wives
4. Islamic Defences of Aisha’s Child Marriage: A Historical Analysis of Age, Puberty, and Consent
5. Why Didn’t Aisha Protest as an Adult: Is Silence Evidence of Consent?

Islamic Sharia

Critical analysis of Sharia law, hudud, qisas, family law, apostasy, blasphemy, and the legal status of women and non-Muslims.

1. Execution of Apostates Under Islamic Sharia: The Brutal Punishment for Leaving Islam
2. Punishment for Insulting Muhammad: The Islamic Legal Basis for Extrajudicial Killings
3. Jizya: The Humiliating Tax Designed to Degrade and Subjugate Disbelievers
4. Magic Is Forbidden in Islamic Sharia and Sorcerers Are to Be Beheaded
5. Inhumane Rulings on Homosexuals in Islamic Sharia

Islamic Slavery

An analysis of the provisions regarding slavery, concubinage, prisoners of war, the buying and selling of slaves, and manumission within Islamic scriptures,…

1. Sex with Female Slaves in Islam: ‘Ma Malakat Aymanukum’ and the Anatomy of Sexual Slavery
2. The Islamic Slave Market: The Commodification and Public Display of Women’s Bodies
3. Under Islamic Law, What Is the Maximum Number of Sex Slaves a Muslim May Keep?
4. Slave Women as Gifts and Property: Sexual Access, Exchange, and Transfer in Islamic Law
5. Beating Slaves in Islam: Muhammad’s Tacit Approval, Violence by the Companions, and Legal Permissibility in Islamic Jurisprudence

Miracles of Muhammad

Analyses of miraculous claims attributed to Muhammad using hadith, sira literature, historical sources, and standards of evidence.

1. The Prophet Split the Moon with a Gesture of His Finger: Religious Narratives and Scientific Evidence
2. The Hadith of al-Ifk: A Dangerous Account for the Claim of Prophethood
3. The Coolness of Allah’s Fingers Between Muhammad’s Nipples
4. Kun Fayakun vs. the Magic Knot: Muhammad’s Bewitchment and the Crisis of Allah’s Sovereignty
5. Miraj: The Ancient Ascension Myth, Al-Aqsa Politics, and the Breakdown of Islamic Eschatology

Offensive Jihad

Analysis of jihad, warfare, territorial expansion, military policies toward non-Muslims, and the concept of offensive warfare in Islamic scriptures and history.

1. No Compulsion in Religion – La ikraha fiddin: Coercion, Jizya, Apostasy, and the Limits of Religious Freedom in Classical Islam
2. Lakum Dinukum Wa Liya Din: the Myth of Islamic Coexistence
3. Does the Quran Teach That Killing One Person Is Like Killing All Humanity? Surah al-Ma’idah 5:32, the Talmud, and the Meaning of Fasad
4. Jihad and Qital in Classical Islam: Offensive War, Jizya, and the Pursuit of Global Religious Domination
5. The Fate of Civilian Women and Children in War: Spoils, Plunder, and Slavery in Islam

On Islam and Predestination (Taqdir)

Discussions based on Islamic sources regarding the tension between divine decree (Taqdir), predestination, Allah's omniscience, human free will, and moral accountability.

1. Allah Led Satan Astray: Ahmad al-Ghazali, Mansur al-Hallaj, and the Tawhid of Iblis
2. In Classical Islamic Interpretation, Allah Makes People Perform the Deeds of the People of Paradise or Hell
3. Heaven After 100 Murders: The Contradiction Between Allah’s Mercy and Justice
4. Predestination in Classical Islamic Creedal Works: Divine Will, Human Action, and Moral Responsibility

Philosophical Problems

Critical discussion of fundamental philosophical problems concerning knowledge, reality, morality, free will, consciousness, God, existence, and human life.

1. The Philosophical and Logical Problems of an All-Knowing, All-Seeing God (Allah)
2. A Critical Dissection of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
3. Universe 25: The Mouse Utopia and the Religious Promise of Eternal Paradise

Philosophical Problems in Islam

Analysis of God, omniscience, free will, predestination, morality, the problem of evil, and logical inconsistencies within Islamic theology.

1. Islamic Jannah: The Eternal Brothel of Sensual Pleasure
2. The Purpose of Life: Why Does Humanity Need an Afterlife but Allah Does Not?
3. Allah’s Command “Be”: Logical Problems of Creation, Omnipotence, and Omniscience
4. The Quran’s Inimitability Challenge: A Rational Critique
5. Class Inequality and Freedom of Desire in Paradise: An Inherent Contradiction

Prophet Muhammad’s Sexual Life

A critical examination of Muhammad’s marriages, wives, female slaves, sexual relationships, and the related Islamic laws and historical accounts.

1. Muhammad’s Sexual Abuse: The Violation of Jauniyya’s and Umayma’s Consent and the Degradation of Women
2. The Prophet’s Lust for His Adopted Son’s Wife and Their Marriage Through Revelation
3. Did Prophet Muhammad Have No Desire for Women?

Qur'anic Verses by Topic

Qur'anic verses organized thematically and presented according to topics such as theology, law, women, warfare, non-Muslims, morality, and other subjects.

Reason and Logic

1. Russell’s Cosmic Teapot: A Devastating Challenge to Theology
2. Paradox of Epicurus
3. Pascal’s Wager Under the Microscope of Reason
4. Occam’s Razor: Weapons to clear the mess of superstition

Scientific Errors in the Quran

Critical analysis of Quranic claims concerning nature, biology, medicine, geography, astronomy, and the universe in light of modern scientific knowledge.

1. According to the Quran, Freshwater and Saltwater Do Not Mix: A Scientific and Historical Critique
2. The Awl Principle: Mathematical Errors in Quranic Inheritance Law
3. Embryology in the Qur’an: Scientific Miracle or Ancient Embryological Ideas?
4. Dissecting the Myth of Noah’s Prehistoric Great Flood

The actions of the Prophet's followers

A source-based analysis of the wars, political conflicts, power struggles, and historical activities of the Companions, the Caliphs, and the early Muslim…

1. Umar’s Attitudes Toward Women in Islamic Sources: Veiling, Sexual Coercion, Wife-Beating, and the Abuse of Enslaved Women
2. Hazrat Umar and the Double Standard of Prophetic Obedience
3. Uthman’s Caliphate and the Rights of Non-Muslims: The Myth of the “Golden Age” and Structural Injustice
4. Ali’s Threat to Strip a Non-Muslim Woman to Recover Hatib’s Letter
5. The Brutal Killing of Umm Qirfa by Zayd: Torn Apart Between Two Camels, the Capture of Her Beautiful Daughter, and “Uncovering Her Garment”

The deeds of other Abrahamic prophets

A critical analysis of the lives, miraculous narratives, ethical issues, and historicity of Abrahamic prophets—other than Muhammad—as described in Islamic, Jewish, and…

Track Record of Islamic Preachers (Da'is)

An evidence-based review of falsehoods, misrepresentations, double standards, and internal inconsistencies in the statements of Islamic speakers, da'is, and proselytizers.

Unscientific Claims: Astronomy

An examination of unscientific claims made by religious scriptures and preachers about the Sun, Moon, stars, Earth, space, and the universe in…

1. According to Islam, where does the sun go at night?
2. Allah’s Nightly Descent to the Lowest Heaven: Earth’s Rotation and the Problem of Local Time
3. Hell’s Breath: The Islamic Explanation for Winter and Summer
4. What Are the Heavens Made of According to Islam?
5. Earth on the Back of a Fish: Islamic Cosmology versus Modern Geology

Unscientific Claims: Biology

An examination of unscientific claims made by religious scriptures and preachers about the Sun, Moon, stars, Earth, space, and the universe in…

1. According to Muhammad, Eating Seven Ajwa Dates in the Morning Prevents Poisoning
2. Public Health Risks of Islamic Beliefs: Water Remains Pure Even When Menstrual Rags and Dead Animals Are Thrown into It
3. According to Islamic Belief, tailbone in Human Spine Remains Intact Forever
4. According to Islamic Belief, the Dead Can Hear the Sound of People’s Shoes in Their Graves
5. Islam Says There Is No Contagion: Hadith, Interpretation, and Scientific Scrutiny

Women in Islam

1. Women as Commodities in Islam: Instruments of Male Pleasure, Reproduction, and Obedience
2. Female Circumcision in Islam: Sexual Control, Genital Mutilation, and Patriarchal Religious Authority
3. Marital Rape in Islam: Sexual Consent and Husbands’ Rights Under Sharia
4. Post-Divorce Maintenance in Islam: Male Authority and Economic Inequality