Questions and Answers

Questions & Answers About Islam

In this book Fethullah Gülen, sensitive to the real questions people have - the questions given rise to by the modern age - has tried, through patient argument, to answer people's doubts and questions.

Islam, probably the most misunderstood religion in the world, is among the hot reading topics for people all over the world. Questions and Answers about Islam Vol. 1 and 2 have been prepared to provide first-hand information from one of the most leading Islamic scholars of our time.

Questions and Answers About Islam

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1 Although Azrail is One, How does He Capture the Souls of Many People Who Die at the Same Instant? Fethullah Gülen 165
2 Are Muslims Guilty of Imperialism? Fethullah Gülen 181
3 Are the Manner And Time Of Death Predetermined? Fethullah Gülen 215
4 As God Already Gives His Blessings and Peace to Prophet Muhammad, What is the Wisdom in Our Invoking God's Blessings and Peace Upon Him? Does He Need Our Invocations? Fethullah Gülen 103
5 Can Islam Solve Every Problem? Fethullah Gülen 183
6 Can Our Intention Save Us? Fethullah Gülen 347
7 Can We Choose Our Actions? Fethullah Gülen 184
8 Desire to Emulate, Envy, and Hastening to do Good As If Competing with One Another Fethullah Gülen 435
9 Desire to Retreat Fethullah Gülen 247
10 Did Prophet Muhammad Write the Qur'an? Fethullah Gülen 168
11 Do the Appointed Times of Death (Ajal) of People Who Die En Masse in Natural Disasters Come to All of Them At the Same Time? Fethullah Gülen 147
12 Does God Exist? Fethullah Gülen 245
13 Fasting in Islam Fethullah Gülen 175
14 How are Those Who Are Hostile to Dialogue Activities Today Relevant to "Kharijites, Karmatis, Anarchists"? Fethullah Gülen 167
15 How Can "Moderation" Be Defined? Fethullah Gülen 167
16 How Can We Avoid Sins, and How Can We Show Sincere Repentance? Fethullah Gülen 170
17 How Many Prophets Were There? Were They All From Arabia? Fethullah Gülen 141
18 How Should Believers 0nvite Others to Faith? Fethullah Gülen 155
19 How Should People Avoid Sins, Distractions, and Temptations? Fethullah Gülen 190
20 How Should We Deal With Mockery or Ridicule, Especially of the Young Trying to Practice Their Religion by Their Peers? Fethullah Gülen 169
21 How Should We React to the Evil Thoughts and Desires Whispered by Satan? Fethullah Gülen 150
22 How to Keep Free of Satanic Suggestions? Fethullah Gülen 159
23 How Would You Describe the Moral Transformation of the Prophet’s Companions After the Advent of Islam? Fethullah Gülen 136
24 Is It Right When People Link HIV to "The Beast of the Earth" (Dabbat al ard), One of the Signs of the Last Day? Fethullah Gülen 161
25 Is Reincarnation Compatible With Islam? Fethullah Gülen 5853
26 Is There an Islamic Code of Conduct Concerning Way of Dressing? Fethullah Gülen 172
27 Jihad With Different Aspects Fethullah Gülen 189
28 Polygamy Fethullah Gülen 206
29 Self-Confidence Fethullah Gülen 179
30 Should We Fear Death? Fethullah Gülen 194
31 Since God Knows What We Will Do, Why Does He Send Us Here? Fethullah Gülen 173
32 Submission, Sense, and Reason Fethullah Gülen 203
33 The Happens to the Spirit in the Intermediate World? Fethullah Gülen 160
34 The Qur'an Says: There is No Compulsion in Religion (2:256) What Does This Mean? Fethullah Gülen 174
35 Was Muhammad's Mission Limited and Temporary? Fethullah Gülen 174
36 What About Involuntary Thoughts and Fancies? Fethullah Gülen 192
37 What About the Angel of Death? Fethullah Gülen 177
38 What Are the Differences Between the Islamic and the Modern Scientific Points of View On Knowledge ('ilm)? How Does The Qur'an Regard ''Knowledge''? Fethullah Gülen 132
39 What are the Greatest Dangers and Pitfalls That a Believer Faces, and What Precautions Can Be Taken? Fethullah Gülen 142
40 What are the Reasons for the Fact that Islam Spread Over Such Vast Territories in Such a Short Time in the Past? What are the Reasons for the Muslims' Defeat and Failure at the Present Time? Fethullah Gülen 114
41 What Do We Feel At the Time of Death? Fethullah Gülen 160
42 What do You Say About Sperm Banks and Artificial Insemination? Fethullah Gülen 216
43 What Does the Islamic Concept of Fitra (Primordial Nature) Mean? Fethullah Gülen 178
44 What Happens to People Born and Living in Non-Islamic Countries? Fethullah Gülen 186
45 What is "Unity of Being" (Wahdat al-Wujud)? Does it Conform in Any Way to the Teachings of Islam?" Fethullah Gülen 181
46 What is Death? Fethullah Gülen 304
47 What is Guidance, and Can We Guide Others? Fethullah Gülen 183
48 What is Jihad? Fethullah Gülen 231
49 What is the Islamic Perspective on Anticipation For the Messiah and the Mahdi? Fethullah Gülen 203
50 What is the Point of Worship, and Why Does it Have to Be Done in a Certain Way? Fethullah Gülen 151
51 What is the Primordial Covenant? Fethullah Gülen 164
52 What is the Purpose of Spiritual Tension? Fethullah Gülen 179
53 What is the Reason for the Persistence of Darwinism in the General Culture of the Masses, Though Many of Darwin's Hypotheses Have Been Challenged and Even Disproved? Fethullah Gülen 122
54 What is the Role of Prophethood and of Prophets? Fethullah Gülen 150
55 What is the Sunna's Role Today? Fethullah Gülen 208
56 What is the Wisdom in Fasting? Fethullah Gülen 166
57 What is Ulfa (Familiarity)? And What Are its Negative Effects? Fethullah Gülen 166
58 What Satan is and Why He Was Created? Fethullah Gülen 242
59 What Should be Our Attitude Against Ideas Like Positivism and Rationalism Which are Accepted as The Sources of Information in The West? To What Degree do they Reflect the Truth? Fethullah Gülen 108
60 What Should Be the Understanding of "Mujaddid" in Our Time? Does it Refer to a Single Individual Only, or does it Rather Signify a Collective Personality (Shakhs Al-Manawi)? Fethullah Gülen 136
61 When Modern Science Agrees With the Qur'an Fethullah Gülen 206
62 Who are the People the Qur’anic Verses 2:18 and 2:171 Refer to? Fethullah Gülen 167
63 Who Created God? Fethullah Gülen 231
64 Why Are Some People Created ''More Equal'' Than Others? Fethullah Gülen 186
65 Why Are There Fortunate and Unfortunate People? Fethullah Gülen 159
66 Why Are Whole Nations no Longer Punished?Why Are Whole Nations no Longer Punished? Fethullah Gülen 164
67 Why Can't We See God? Fethullah Gülen 201
68 Why did God Create the Universe? Fethullah Gülen 164
69 Why does Islam Allow Slavery? Fethullah Gülen 169
70 Why Does One Creature's Life Depend on the Death Of Another? Fethullah Gülen 181
71 Why Does Satan Insist on His Unbelief? Fethullah Gülen 195
72 Why does the Qur'an Mention a Person Such As Abu Lahab Who Was An Inveterate Enemy of Islam? What is the Wisdom in Doing So? How does it Befit the Dignity and Purport of the Divine Book? Fethullah Gülen 108
73 Why Does the Qur'an Not Discuss Scientific Issues That Concern Us Today? Fethullah Gülen 165
74 Why Does the Qur'an Open With Iqra' (Recite, Read)? Fethullah Gülen 157
75 Why is Atheism So Widespread? Fethullah Gülen 179
76 Why Was the Prophet Polygamous? Fethullah Gülen 173
77 Why Was the Qur'an Revealed Over A Period of 23 Years? Fethullah Gülen 170
78 Will Religion, Supposedly Developed by ''Primitive'' People to Explain the Unknown, Eventually Become Unnecessary? Fethullah Gülen 160
79 Women's Rights? Fethullah Gülen 178
80 You Say That Islam is A Religion of Unity, But We See Differences - Sometimes Major Differences - Even Among the Companions. Why is This So? Fethullah Gülen 131