Islam
193Cyrus, King of Persia
20 May 2024
15:01¶ 46
“Yes. Some really interesting parallels I see in Islam to Zoroastrianism is you have it beginning with a single vision to a single man…”
15:23¶ 47
“It’s based on your continuous will of choosing to follow him, which is also something in Islam that they speak of. You must choose…”
15:48¶ 48
“That happened for Zoroaster. It happened for Muhammed, where they go for quite a while before they actually write anything down, so you have…”
185The Law on Mount Sinai
18 Mar 2024
32:03¶ 114
“Which they do. They can’t put the book on the floor. The book has to be at the top of every stack of books.…”
31:38¶ 110
“We can be like the Muslims and hold a burial service for our holy books and make its own little coffin.”
31:48¶ 112
“No. That’s actually why they have some really old copies, because they were buried in special little coffins.”
61Liberty and Responsibility
28 Feb 2021
9:09¶ 25
“Even when we look at Islam, where freedom is the submission of the world to the will of Allah, Allah himself is simply an…”
60Facing Giants
21 Feb 2021
33:52¶ 97
“Then of course the last one is Islam. They had it really simple. “It is the will of Allah.” You can’t lose. God has…”
42The Metaphysics of Life
18 Oct 2020
3:20¶ 7
“That’s over against say Allah in Islam, who is not that, whoever what he is or it is. I’m not quite sure what’s going…”
2:40¶ 6
“Then when we come to monotheism, we look at Judaism, Islam, and Christianity and say, “There at least finally when we say God we’re…”
5Trinity (part 2)
2 Feb 2020
39:41¶ 132
“Basically, one of the arguments that sticks out in my memory is that the Islamic conception of Allah is a perfectly non-interactive being. There…”
40:21¶ 133
“The pillars of Islam and everything that a faithful Muslim does his entire life – he can follow the Quran perfectly, and by the…”
40:40¶ 134
“And Allah can’t even really reveal himself. He’s so non-interactive that he can’t even hold a conversation and reveal his will and his word…”