About The BookOther religions are cultural preferences, but not Islam. Islam is objectively true and you can prove it. Based on the seminal online course designed and taught by instructor Hamza Karamali, this textbook provides students with detailed, evidence-based knowledge of all the core tenets of Muslim belief. It tackles the central questions facing young Muslims, including how we know that God exists, how to respond to the arguments of modern atheism, and the meaning of suffering in the world. By working through this textbook, students are empowered to use logical reasoning, science, and revelation to nurture sincere faith that is supported by proof. Why Islam is True is the first course in Basira's Modern Curriculum series.
About Basira EducationOur mission is to develop intelligent and conservative Muslims whose grounding in the Muslim scholarly and spiritual traditions enables them to critically integrate modern science and culture into their religious worldview.Our goal is to help conservative Muslims preserve their religious worldview and pass it on to their children by providing a religious curriculum that is thoroughly grounded in the traditional Islamic sciences while explicitly engaging the difficult questions raised by the physical sciences and the humanities in the curricula of modern schools and colleges.
Religious curricula that are taught at home or in the mosque are disconnected from the curricula that children and young adults are taught in schools and colleges. This creates a conflict in the minds and souls of religious students.
The conflict lies in two areas: (1) in the physical sciences, which train students to analyze the universe through the lens of materialism, and (2) in the humanities, which acculturate them into a non-religious worldview that moralizes autonomy and suspects authority and tradition, particularly when it is religious.
This conflict sows confusion into the minds of religious students. Strong relationships with healthy religious families and communities can overpower the confusion and the religious students can grow into religious adults who are successful in their families, communities, and careers.
But when these relationships are absent, or when they turn sour, or when they are overpowered by other non-religious relationships, then the seed of confusion grows into religious doubt, and students’ religious confidence in public settings begins to wither. Eventually, their faith can shrink, their religious practice in private settings can wane, and they may lose interest in their religious identities.
Atheism is spreading rapidly among all religious communities, and Muslims are no exception. It is spreading even in the Muslim heartlands, where some have estimated rates of atheism as high as 5%. The justifications of formerly-Muslim atheists always return to one of the two areas of conflict—the materialism of the physical sciences or the moralized autonomy of the humanities.
