سلامة Salama

Islam doesn't believe in ghosts. In 1 Samuel 28, the witch of En-dor supposedly brought up for king Saul the ghost of prophet Samuel, who looked like him and made a true political prophecy. The Old Testament context treats this as the real Samuel, but some Christians deny the concept of ghosts (as they should) and say it was a demonic ruse, a trick, and the prophecy was a lucky guess.   Fine. They are reinterpreting the uncomfortable parts of the Tanakh, using mental gymnastics that contradict the gist of the story (as usual!), but their interpretation throws doubt on many other apparitions!   They can't attack Islam by claiming that Muhammad's angel, Gabriel, could have been a demon (that curses demons and promotes monotheism?! Hah!) without locking themselves into saying the same about Paul's encounter!   In 1 Corinthians 15:8 Paul said: "Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also"

to get the app: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp OR pipx upgrade --pip-args=--pre yt-dlp to get a list of available formats for a video: ./yt-dlp -F RsYPyPP7E2w to get a specific format. Here we chose the audio-only 139: ./yt-dlp -f 139 OIdj5HnOnvU to get a text list of all videos on a channel: ./yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print "%(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" https://www.youtube.com/@ACGreviews/videos > Playlist_ACGreviews.txt to get a list of a specific playlist on a channel: yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print "%(channel)s %(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX34qDh_nH51NT3_eHghr8YOS_hFuG51O > Playlist_Name to get the latest 20 videos on your account's subscription list: ./yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --flat-playlist -I :20 --print "%(id)s %(duration_string)s %(title)s" :ytsubs > MySubList.txt OR (using a specific path for the browser. Usually not needed) ./yt...

 Q 16:15 "He has made mountains stand firm on the earth, to prevent it shaking under you"   Modern Muslims shouldn't claim a scientific miracle here, since the science isn't there yet.. and because of the difficulty of 'removing a mountain' to check the effects, it may never be confirmed.   The usual rationalization of the ijaz ilmi people goes like this: it prevents earthquakes (not proven. Actually mountainous regions are earthquake-prone), or it keeps the planet's rotation stable by making the surface not too smooth (by friction against what exactly?!), or by stabilizing the crust by pinning it to the mantle.   This last one became popular, and they use terms like "isostatic balance" without fully understanding them.   Isostasy is about the mountain stabilizing *itself*, reaching a state of balance, like a floating iceberg. The science says nothing about it functioning as stabilizers for its surrounding!   This point can't be emphasized eno...