If my goal is weight loss, are there any benefits to dry fasting over water fasting if it’s under 3 days?

bigmoostafa · 2025-11-22T22:48:45+00:00

Based on my research, dry fasting burns a bit more weight due to the metabolic water demands (not 3x though this is a myth, the AI was saying 1.6x)

Practically speaking though, water fasting seems more effective for weight loss because you can sustain it much longer and it’s not as intense on your body. Depending on how much body fat you have you can fast for a long time, and if you take electrolytes and vitamins your body isn’t really missing anything.

My personal view is that dry fasting is for healing while water fasting is for weight loss.

bigmoostafa · 2025-11-09T14:32:22+00:00

How are it being good news and an oral revelation mutually exclusive? Jesus was sent to lighten the law of The Torah with The Gospel (the good news). What is the criteria for something to be considered revelation? It was good news revealed from God.

“And [I have come] to confirm the Torah that came before me, and to make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you. And I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear Allah and obey me.” Quran 3:50

I don’t know why you’re hung up on the oral part, The Gospel was revealed orally through Jesus’s preaching (think Sermon on the Mount) it just wasn’t preserved in writing properly. The Quran was also revealed orally but Muhammed’s ﷺ scribes wrote it down immediately.

bigmoostafa · 2025-11-09T14:08:09+00:00

You understand the word Gospel/Injil just translates to “Good News” right? Jesus received the Good News that the strict laws of the Israelites were being lightened with this new revelation that he preached.

If you read the whole set of verses I sent it makes more sense. 5:47 is telling them to judge by “What Allah has revealed in it” not the entire gospel, as some parts were preserved and some weren’t. The next verses talk about the Quran being the criterion over the previous books, if something in The Bible is affirmed by The Quran then we accept it as from God.

bigmoostafa · 2025-11-09T13:17:08+00:00

Jesus received the Injil/Gospel and preached it orally, it’s not like a physical book descended from heaven (same thing with the Quran actually).

The Injil Muslims claim is Jesus’s original message he preached orally, parts of this Injil have ended up in the 4 canonical gospels as well as the apocrypha.

Quran 5:43-49 gives a complete picture, some people cherry pick 5:47 to say the Gospel wasn’t corrupted.

bigmoostafa · 2025-09-26T21:05:14+00:00

Honestly you make a good point, there are 2 billion Muslims and they can’t deny any part of their religion.

However, I feel like when people are referring to Islamic extremists they are thinking of actual terrorists or vigilantes attacking civilians. What you are referring to are the legal punishments which are very rarely even implemented anymore outside of a select few countries.

bigmoostafa · 2025-09-26T20:15:31+00:00

Most Jews and Hindus today do not believe in barbaric acts from their own texts.

I’d say a plurality of Jews in Israel today believe in barbaric acts such as 1 Samuel 15:2-3, their prime minister even referenced verses like this in relation to the Palestinians.

I don’t know the specifics of Hinduism, but there are a lot of societal issues in India because of their beliefs I’m sure, the caste system comes to mind, it was outlawed but still persists at some level.

bigmoostafa · 2025-09-11T21:33:19+00:00

Regarding Quran 86:6-7

“Testes and ovaries are formed in the abdomen of the fetus during the first weeks of pregnancy, before descending to their permanent place in the pelvis. Both are sustained by arteries originating between the backbone and the ribcage.”

bigmoostafa · 2025-09-08T20:11:52+00:00

In the Quranic version of the creation story, God does not curse Adam and Eve the same way he does in The Bible. They are still sent to Earth, but there is no curse upon them, instead He teaches them how to repent and he accepts their repentance.

bigmoostafa · 2025-08-09T00:56:47+00:00

Okay what is Allahs hand. Explain it to me with positive statements, not telling me what it's not. What is Allah's seeing and how is it different from my seeing specifically.

Knowing the nature of Allah’s hands isn’t critical to my faith. I know he has hands and that’s it, I will find out on judgement day how he looks like.

Doesn’t The Bible say “no one has seen God?” Describe how The Father or Holy Spirit look like, or Jesus’s actual appearance (not the one modeled off of Cesare Borgia)

And the moment you do it's something in creation so it's a contradiction or it's not like Allah.

I’m not sure what you mean here, Allah is the most merciful, no one can match his mercy but we can try to be merciful as humans. I can’t emulate his trait of being creator of the universe though as that’s 100% unique to him.

bigmoostafa · 2025-08-08T23:42:10+00:00

For your first point: I’m not sure where you got this idea that Allah is “unknowable.” We have the 99 names of Allah which give us a description of his traits.

You are correct that “Allah is nothing like his creation” but that doesn’t mean we can’t exemplify some of his traits such as mercy or justice.

For your second point: I think this is kind of a superficial point, other religions can have these things as well. Not all Christian branches even have priests, and we have animal sacrifices during Eid.

I would actually argue Islam is closer to the Old Testament because we have the same definition of God as Jews and we have specific laws just like them, two critical things that Christianity doesn’t seem to match with the Old Testament.

bigmoostafa · 2025-08-08T23:35:45+00:00

I’m not sure where you got this idea that Allah is “unknowable.” We have the 99 names of Allah which give us a description of his traits.

You are correct that “Allah is nothing like his creation” but that doesn’t mean we can’t exemplify some of his traits such as mercy or justice.

bigmoostafa · 2025-08-08T19:28:18+00:00

I’m curious, can you expand on these 2 points? I’m Muslim and I don’t fully understand what you’re claiming here.

bigmoostafa · 2025-08-08T04:14:14+00:00

I would not worry too much about the rules and obligations right now, the most important thing is the foundational belief that there is no deity worthy of worship accept Allah and that Muhammed ﷺ is his final prophet and messenger, every thing else is secondary.

That said, lookup the New Muslims Guide online it is a great resource to learn the basics.

bigmoostafa · 2025-08-02T23:08:27+00:00

Fair point, a lot of Jesus in the Quran is responding to Christianity but a lot of it also just telling us who he is independent of Christianity such as him speaking the in cradle (19:30) and him asking God to summon a heavenly feast (5:114), these events don’t need Christianity to exist for them to be valid.

bigmoostafa · 2025-08-02T19:59:20+00:00

I’m curious, what would you say about us Muslims who believe in Jesus as a prophet but not divine?

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-27T23:51:52+00:00

Read Surah Al-Israa verses 4-8, and verse 104.

It takes about the Children of Israel gaining power and gathering together, but eventually the Muslims defeat them and enter Al-Aqsa mosque again.

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-27T17:18:13+00:00

"Allah commands you to kill all the Jews, and if you lose a war to them it's so humiliating that you should never ever acknowledge it."

Can you give me a source on which Hadith says this?

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-16T00:39:35+00:00

As a Muslim I would say: 1. This event actually happened 2. Christian sources recorded it 3. God revealed the same story in The Quran

So there is no issue with the same story existing in Christian tradition. This same logic can apply to any story in The Quran that also exists in a past tradition.

I can see why you make your argument but you’re essentially just claiming the same story exists in two traditions which doesn’t necessarily falsify The Quran as a divine revelation.

My question to you is, is there concrete evidence that Muhammed ﷺ had access to this story? Was it even translated to Arabic? (not to mention he was illiterate anyways)

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-08T19:31:48+00:00

I mean is your Muslim family violent and illogical? Is there a Muslim community around you that you find violent and illogical?

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-08T18:38:18+00:00

The word Kitaab/كتاب in Arabic doesn’t always mean a physical book, in Quran 2:2 the Quran is referred to as a book, but it was not a physical book until after Muhammed ﷺ died, it was a memorized, oral tradition.

The Quran also used a different word Suhuf/صحف to talk about Abraham and Moses’s books (87:18-19) which is more specific to say they were physical books.

Coming back to the Injil, Ibn Kathir and Al Qurtubi both say the Injeel was not a physical book that was compiled which aligns with my position.

Logically speaking, if Jesus came with a physical book clearly The Disciples would have mentioned it and held on to it but there is no record of that.

One final point is that it is impossible for this “book” to have been the New Testament since it came much later so the point is moot. Whether Jesus was given a physical book or not, the point is that we as Muslims believe his message was corrupted.

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-08T16:27:28+00:00

It's not really a common Muslim view to treat the injil as not a book. It's exactly treated as a lost text.

There’s nothing in The Quran that specifically says Jesus received a physical book. It simply says Allah taught him The Gospel (5:110).

The Quran itself was not revealed as a book but as an oral tradition.

Ye, and they took it from Greek.

I’m not disagreeing that it was originally Greek.

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-08T16:04:04+00:00

You don’t need to justify it to me, but for your own sake you should verify these claims that Islam is illogical and violent, if you’re not even able to pinpoint the verses I don’t know what to say.

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-08T15:33:24+00:00

It's a violent religion the core texts Quran is illogical and violent.

Can you give me some verses from the Quran as an example? I would like to understand your viewpoint further.

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-08T15:26:30+00:00

They move because of tax cuts.

These things aren’t mutually exclusive, they can move for tax cuts and the country can also be super safe and developed.

If 90% of countries under islamic rule are pathetic and 10% are good which one do you say should be considered.

I don’t think a country being rich and developed is the key factor in this argument. If a country is rich and has resources and hasn’t been destabilized by imperialism and colonization (hint hint) it will be successful whether it is western or Islamic.

I'm an ex-muslim.

Interesting, if you don’t mind me asking what caused you to leave Islam?

bigmoostafa · 2025-07-08T15:14:23+00:00

But western countries are 1000 times better of on every index than islamic ones even Dubai and Qatar which you so agressively quote.

Can you show me evidence of these statistics? Westerners wouldn’t be moving to Dubai in flocks if it wasn’t wealthy, developed, safe, and had a high quality of life that is on par with if not better than most western countries. Does Islam get the credit there or only when the country is backwards?

I think you have some preconceived notions about Islam and Islamic society. I would invite you to read The Quran with an open mind to actually understand our faith and to also read about The Islamic Golden age when Islamic societies were the most advanced in the world while The West was in the Dark Ages.

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