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@ibn_eloquence m.youtube.com/watch?v=nE0bMM… This might be of interest to you (tl;dr: Sahih according to him, but through "indirect" means)

the hadith about the 73 sects is mutawattir yet the sururis and ahlul bidah try to weaken it because they know they're going to the hellfire

@Han31506417073 Resistance bands might interest you They can replace gym equipment for at least some exercises and with a set of these it becomes easy to adjust the intensity of the training

Started doing the daily push ups, I’ll slowly add more things to this work out sched like crunches, sit ups, hand stands etc etc cus i cant see a way to attend the gym consistently with my work hours.

@Han31506417073 Have you ever tried modding games to lower their system requirements? Depending on how far you go, the graphics might still be tolerable

need some advice, been saving up money got more more driving liscences for big consutruction vehicles but ive also been putting off buying a proper pc for a solid 7 years, should i just say fuck it and go for it?

@ContingentWest Could you please share an example to illustrate what you mean?

My prof & I were talking about this earlier. A major issue in historiography of early Islam is that scholars play a game where they try matching everything in the Qu'ran to a single external influence (in Hagarism, it's Jewish messianism) rather than reading it on its own terms.

@ZaidAbuHurayra I would love to see your opinion on this approach. I personally like this one because it seems to fit into the paradigm of classical scholarship.

@Oergendwer I've heard this from Christians, but not Muslims! But maybe I should include that as well

For my upcoming blog series on human evolution and Islam, I'm making a list of all the ways Muslims usually respond to the putative evidence for common descent of humans (i.e., the idea that humans share an ancestry with other animals). Here's a list of what I have thus far—I think some of these approaches are quite promising, some are of mixed utility, while some are complete non-starters. Please tell me if you can think of any others! 1. It doesn't matter if there's evidence for common descent, because Islam is true in the final analysis 2. There's no evidence for common descent at all (conflating "evidence" with certain proof) 3. Appealing to scientific antirealism - scientific theories have little or no epistemic weight 4. Arguments for common descent have hidden theological assumptions 5. The evidence for common descent is quite weak (e.g., the human-chimp DNA similarity is much lower than >95%) 6. Adamic exceptionalism: the idea that human evolution is compatible with scripture 7. Attacking other aspects of evolutionary biology, like the adequacy of natural selection 8. Appealing to evidence against common ancestry (e.g., human capacity to use language) 9. Appealing to the logical compatibility between evidence for common ancestry and scripture (i.e., God could've arranged things in just such a way that it would look like we evolved, even though we in fact didn't) 10. Appeal to common design: humans and other creatures look similar because they were created on a similar design plan by God. Anything else y'all can think of?