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How do rational Muslims (those Muslims who don't believe in miracles and explain them rationally, like Mufti Abu Layth) explain the following miracles:

• Prophet Musa's staff consuming magicians' conjurations (Qur'an 26:45) (I know they think the magic tricks were all just illusions, but then why would the magicians suddenly believe in Allah if what they did were just magic tricks?)
• Prophet Sulaiman and the spring of liquid copper (Qur'an 34:12)
• Prophet Sulaiman spoke to birds (Qur'an 27:22 and 38:19)
• Prophet Yaqub's clothes curing his father's blindness (Qur'an 12:93)
• Prophet Uzair died for 100 years and was revived (Qur'an 2:259)
• The dwellers of the cave slept for years (Qur'an 18:11) (How do you explain that they survived for years without food and water? The Qur'an is very clear that they slept for years).

Even if polygyny were allowed only to help orphans, why would you need to marry the mothers of the orphans in order to help them? Why can't you just help them without having to marry their mothers?

Is verse 2:62 referring to people of the Book before Muhammad or contemporary to Muhammad?

Is this the correct translation?

"Indeed the faithful, the Jews, the Christians, and the Sabaeans —those of them who have faith in Allah and the Last Day and act righteously— they shall have their reward near their Lord, and they will have no fear, nor will they grieve."

Or is it this one?

"Indeed, those who believed and those who were Jews or Christians or Sabeans - those [among them] who believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteousness - will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve."

Have you eliminated a great whale shark? Surely that is a gigantic fish.
https://animalsanswers.com/how-big-do-whale-sharks-get/

GOD bless you.
Peace.

According to this article https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/could-a-whale-accidentally-swallow-you-it-is-possible-26353362/ whale sharks can't swallow humans because their esophagus is too small.

The Quran says it was a "fish". But the only sea creature that could possibly do something like that is a whale, which is not a fish. So is this a mistake in the Quran or is the word "hut" in Arabic referring to a sea creature in general, rather than a fish as we understand today?

["Is it they who distribute your Lord's mercy? We ˹alone˺ have distributed their ˹very˺ livelihood among them in this worldly life and raised some of them in rank above others so that some may employ others in service. ˹But˺ your Lord's mercy is far better than whatever ˹wealth˺ they amass." [43:32]]

"Is it they who distribute your Lord's mercy? We ˹alone˺ have distributed their ˹very˺ livelihood among them in this worldly life and raised some of them in rank above others so that some may employ others in service. ˹But˺ your Lord's mercy is far better than whatever ˹wealth˺ they amass." [43:32]


Is this verse implying that social inequalities are God's will? Reading other verses it seemed to me that it's human beings who create injustice in this world. Or am I misunderstanding verse 43:32?

Peace.

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I need someone to explain to me what this means: "Indicate him with some of it (the murder)".

What does it mean? How do you indicate someone with a part of a murder?

I will just leave this interesting video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jbve_GeAdI

Peace.

I found this interpretation of verse 4:3, but I don't really know if it makes sense to me ---> https://thefatalfeminist.com/2017/12/18/polygamy-is-haraam/

What do you think?

I remember reading that virgin girls were used in Babylonian temples as prostitutes. Lot was the only one in town who refused to let his daughters become prostitutes. When the people came to his house, demanding that he let them rape his guests, Lot offered his daughters instead, as a way of saying "I'd rather let my daughters work as prostitutes rather than let you rape my guests".