Articles and Reflections

11 studies · Newest dated studies first; undated studies follow alphabetically.

1. Polygamy in the Qur'an

   A Qur’an-centered study of polygamy through the context of orphans, justice, marital covenant, and the prevention of harm.

2. How Should We Establish Salat According to the Qur’an?

   The meaning, foundations, and practice of Salat in the Qur’an.

3. Believer or Muslim? Returning from Religious Identity to the Truth of Faith in the Qur’an

   A Qur’an-centered study of the distinction between faith and submission, the criterion of salvation, the place of the People of the Book and the Sabians, the Abrahamic horizon, and the return from religious labels to faith, righteous action, and human responsibility before …

4. Cutting the Thief’s Hand in the Qur’an: Amputation or Cutting Off Access to Theft?

   A Qur’an-centered reading of Al-Ma’idah 5:38, examining whether cutting the hands means bodily amputation or removing the access, tools, and power that enable theft.

5. Dependency Economy and Human Freedom: When Human Need Becomes an Instrument of Power

   An essay on human freedom in the face of economic, bodily, food, financial, and digital dependency, and on its relation to riba, zakat, inflation, debt, health, and the attention economy.

6. Human Haste in Light of the Qur’an

   A Qur’an-centered critique of apocalyptic haste in religious and political life, the transfer of responsibility to a future savior, and the sacrifice of living human beings to claims about the unseen.

7. Marriage in the Qur’an

   A reflection on marriage, human needs, and spiritual maturity through sound judgment, transparency, fidelity, financial responsibility, and justice.

8. The Book of Riba: Beyond Interest

   Riba through money, debt, ownership, risk, and economic justice.

9. The Garden of Eden as a Place of Growth

   A Qur’an-centered reflection on Adam’s garden, error, repentance, descent, choice, and the difference between Adam’s return and the logic of Iblis.

10. Why Is Human Corruption Only on Earth?

    A linguistic and philosophical critique of interpreting the Seven Heavens as atmospheric layers, exploring the limits of human agency and the status of vicegerency.

11. Zakat (Charity) and Its Historical Distortion: From Qur'anic Tazkiyah to Religious Taxation, Takfir, and Political Authority

    Zakat, purification, and the historical development of religious taxation.