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Islam in the Modern Age December 08, 2006 Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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1 min 57 sec
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan founds Aligarh with dual education
“Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was a famous educationist”
33 sec
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Sir Syed's dream: Quran in one hand, science in other
“Quran in one hand, science in the other”
2 min 58 sec
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Muslim universities worldwide still failed to produce modern scholar
“Institutes were built across the Muslim world”
2 min 45 sec
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Hadith's black fitna and the real need for rediscovery
“A hadith speaks of a coming 'black fitna'”
40 sec
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Hadith on darkness over Islam, cure is rediscovery
“Darkness will cover Islam — the cure is rediscovery”
20 sec
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Islam never truly vanishes, only gets buried
“Islam will never really disappear, that can't happen”
41 sec
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150 years of failed effort to produce modern scholars
“150 years of effort, yet no such scholar emerged”
5 min 22 sec
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Maulana's own journey learning both madrasa and modern knowledge
“My own education happened in a madrasa”
3 min 27 sec
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Judge my books by the Quran, not by other books
“Why do some people still find my books odd?”
3 min 39 sec
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Discovering that science confirms rather than contradicts Islam
“As a child I heard science leads to atheism”
30 sec
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Science as the Quran's modern theology
“Science is the Quran's modern ilm-e-kalam”
3 min 56 sec
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Scientist versus philosopher: refuting the atheist causation argument
“A scientist is not a philosopher, has no religion”
2 min 26 sec
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Philosophers misused science's causation principle against God
“They said: natural causes rule out supernatural ones”
31 sec
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Nature itself needs an explanation
“Nature does not explain — she needs explaining”
22 sec
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Islam teaches respect for all humanity
“Islam is the religion of respect for humanity”
25 sec
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Islam needs rediscovery, not reinterpretation
“Those who say Islam needs re-analysis are wrong”
2 min 24 sec
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Prophet stood in respect for a Jewish funeral
“The Prophet saw a funeral pass and stood up”
6 min 4 sec
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How classical commentary buried Islam's teaching on respecting all humans
“In Bukhari, a story about the Prophet and a funeral”
30 sec
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Car analogy against evolution theory
“Every car model was built separately, not evolved”
38 sec
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Design argument from horse vs human windpipe
“Who decided the horse needs a bigger windpipe?”
2 min 40 sec
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No Islamic basis to kill critics of the Prophet
“Can today's man accept killing over criticism?”
6 min 6 sec
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Hassan bin Thabit's poetry and the myth of killing blasphemers
“In the Prophet's time there was a poet named Hassan”
2 min 54 sec
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A Quran verse that stopped communal riots in India
“Look at what happened in India and Palestine”