But he said that even Christians have Bible for their own proof.

But he said that even Christians have Bible for their own proof. How should I reply him? A. Your approach to that question was wrong and it gave your cousin the chance to object in the way he objected. According to Shia Ithna-Asheri faith, the matters of belief (known commonly as Usul-e-Deen) must be understood through reason and intellect.

When a person has accepted by logical reasoning that there is a Creator who is Omnipotent, Omni-scient, Omni-present; that He is Just and Loves His creatures; that because of that Justice and Love, He cannot leave mankind without a Guide; and that the Last of those guides was our Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) who brought Islam and Qur'an, then, and only then, may we argue with him on the strength of Qur'an and Hadith.

Otherwise, if he does not believe in God (or the Holy Prophet), you cannot expect him to accept the verdict of Qur'an and Hadiths. You have been sent 5 units of the Islamic Correspondence course. You may show them to your cousin and he may find the answer to his problems in them. If after carefully reading those books, he wants more clarification, he or you may write to me, Q.13: All religions believe in God. So do I. But where did God come from? A. God did not come from anywhere.

He is "Self-existent"; therefore, His existence cannot be limited by "from" and "to". He is forever. Other things sometime exist, sometime do not exist. We may ask about these things "when" or "how" or "where from" did they come into being. Q14: Does our Ithna-Asheri faith accept the theory of evolution, i.e., we were not created at an instant, but were evolved? A. First let it be clear that our faith is based on the "belief in the Creator".

If evolution means that Allah created different things in stages, there is not much conflict with religion. If, on the other hand, evolution means that there is no creator and that the things came into being just by progress of matter, then it is naked "Kufr" (atheism) and our faith cannot tolerate it even for an instant.…