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Is Zakat Really 2.5%? A Qur’anic Analysis of the True Rate, Nisab, and Wealth Categories

For the vast majority of Muslims today, zakat is treated as a simple 2.5% calculation on certain types of wealth, once a year, above a minimum threshold defined in grams of gold or silver.

Is Salat Possible Without Hadith? Understanding How Prayer Was Actually Preserved

A statement that is often made is 'we cannot pray the salat without the hadith'.

How Storytellers Replaced the Qur’an: A Historical and Modern Analysis of Folklore in Islam

Many Muslims today think that all religious information is preserved with the same care as the Qur'an.

Did Abu Hanifa Rely on Hadith? A Historical Analysis of His Method and His Critics

When people claim that you cannot follow Islam without hadith, they always forget the one man who did exactly this: Abu Hanifa.

Does the Qiblah Change Prove Abrogation? A Qur’anic Analysis of Jerusalem and Mecca

To demonstrate that certain Qur'anic verses have been abrogated by other verses, some people show the example of the early Muslims facing Jerusalem before changing direction towards Mecca as abrogation.