Why Islam Is True: Quranic Arguments For God, Muhammad, and The Purpose of Life [1 ed.]

Table of contents :
**Chapter One: Islam Is True**
What It Means for Islam to Be True
The Definition of Islam

**Chapter Two: Who Is God?**
The Difference Between a God and the God
What the Quran Tells Us About God
Fact 1: God Exists Necessarily
Fact 2: God Is Beginningless
Fact 3: God Is Endless
Fact 4: God Is lndependent
Fact 5: God Is Transcendent
Fact 6: God Is One
Fact 7: God Is Alive
Fact 8: God Has Knowledge
Fact 9: God Has Volition
Fact 10: God Is Powerful
Fact 11: God Speaks
Fact 12: God Hears
Fact 13: God Sees

**Chapter Three: God Exists**
What is the Proof that God Exists?
Fact One: The Universe Exists Contingently
Fact Two: Everything that Exists Contingently Needs a Necessary Being to Make It Exist
The Argument from Contingency Is a Quranic Proof

**Chapter Four: Science and God**
Your Smartphone Is Contingent
Pavlov's Dogs
This Is Why Science Is Possible
What Are Laws of Nature?
Reconditioning Ourselves Through the Remembrance of God

**Chapter Five: The Big Bang and the Kalam Cosmological Argument**
How Old Is Your Computer?
The Big Bang
The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Everything That Began to Exist Must Have Been Made to Exist by Something Else
The Thing that Made the Universe Exist Could Not Itself Have Begun to Exist
The Universe Depends on Someone Who Did Not Begin to Exist

**Chapter Six: Materialism Is False**
The Universe Is Not Everything that Exists
Many Theists Fall into Materialism
God Is Not a Physical Object
These Four Privative Attributes Are Entailed by God's Necessary Existence

**Chapter Seven: God's Agency and the Argument from Design**
The Meaning of Life and Agency
Agency Versus Causation
God Is a Volitional Agent
Variety Is Evidence For God's Agency
Design Is Evidence For God's Agency
The Argument from Design Is Not an Islamic Argument

**Chapter Eight: The Oneness of God**
The Blue Mosque and Mi'mar Sinan
The Chaos of Polytheism
The Quranic Argument for the Oneness of God

**Chapter Nine: Loaded Questions About God**
Journalists Ask Loaded Questions
Loaded Questions About God
Can God Create a Rock He Can't Lift?
Can God Destroy Himself?

**Chapter Ten: The Problem of Evil**
We Feel the Pain of Suffering
Separating Preferences from Facts
Why Does God Create Suffering?
The Wisdom of Suffering

**Chapter Eleven: The Purpose of Life**
God Made Everything with A Purpose
God Sent Us Messengers
The Historical Claims of Other Religions Are Unverifiable
The Central Historical Claims of Islam Are Mass-Transmitted

**Chapter Twelve: Miracles**
God Made the Universe Intelligible
Cause-and-Effect Relationships Are Contingent
The Interruption of A Cause-and-Effect Relationship Is Called A Miracle
Just Because An Event Is Amazing, Doesn't Mean That It's Miraculous

**Chapter Thirteen: Kinds of Miracles**
Miracles On Their Own Don't Prove Anything
Prophetic Miracles
Other Kinds Of Miracles

**Chapter Fourteen: The Miracle of the Quran**
How to Prove "Muhammad is God's Messenger" (God bless him and give him peace)
Eloquence: The Linguistic Miracle of the Quran
Knowledge of the Future: The Predictive Miracle of the Quran
Advanced Knowledge: The Scientific Miracle of the Quran
Knowledge of the Past: The Historical Miracle of the Quran

**Chapter Fifteen: The Quran Was Taught By God**
The Prophet Did Not Author the Quran Himself
The Prophet's Teacher Was Taught By the Angel Jibril

**Chapter Sixteen: Other Prophetic Miracles**
1. Water Gushed Forth from Between His Fingers
2. The Moon Split in Two
3. Inanimate Objects Praised God As He Held Them
4. A Tree Stump Groaned When He Stopped Standing On It
5. He Fed Masses of People with Small Amounts of Food
6. He Healed the Sick
7. Idols Toppled When He Pointed At Them

**Chapter Seventeen: The Prophet (God bless him and give him peace) Was Not An Impostor**

**Chapter Eighteen: Preparing for Life After Death**
Life After Death Makes Life Meaningful
We Have Five Lives
Our Moral Responsibility
Good and Bad Deeds

**Chapter Nineteen: Evolution**
Common Ancestors
Three Kinds of Evidence S
cientific Evidence for Common Ancestry
Rational Evidence for Contingency
Revelatory Evidence for the Miraculous Exception of Human Beings
There is No Conflict Between Science and Religious Faith

**Appendix: Key Terms**