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I picked this up mostly because the title intrigued me. Seven lessons. Physics. Brief.

I'm only three chapters in, but it's already doing something I didn't quite expect. The way Rovelli writes about light, space, the cosmos doesn't feel cold or clinical rather like a wonder.

And that's where it connects to something deeper for me. These phenomena such as space curving, particles behaving strangely, the architecture of the universe are creation. Allah is Al-Zaahir, the Manifest. Maybe one way He is manifest is in exactly this: the intricate, astonishing way the physical world holds together.

Khol Aankh Zameen Dekh, Falak Dekh Fiza Dekh

Mashriq Se Ubharte Howay Sooraj Ko Zara Dekh

Iss Jalwa Be Parda Ko Pardon Mein Chhupa dekh

- Allama Iqbal

Has anyone else read it? I'd love to know how it landed for you, especially if you found yourself thinking about faith while reading it.

Socioeconomic Sustainability through Moral and Social Capital, p.92

Welcome to r/MuslimReads

Some time ago, I typed "MuslimReads" into Reddit's search bar.

Then I tried "MuslimBooks." Then "IslamicBooks." Then a few other variations, each one a little more hopeful than the last.

And I sat with that for a while because it felt strange. Muslim readers are everywhere. We are the people who grew up with Urdu novels being passed around at family gatherings like heirlooms. We are the ones who read Manto in secret as teenagers and felt something crack open. We have bookshelves where Ibn Khaldun sits next to Dostoevsky and Bano Qudsia sits next to Charlotte Bronte, and we have never once found that strange, because why would we? We are readers. We read everything.

We just didn't have a room of our own. So here it is.

This community was born from a simple feeling: that Muslim readers deserve a place to talk about books. Not to debate. Not to compete over who is more learned or more devout. Just talk. The way we talk about a book with our friends, when neither of us is trying to impress anyone.

 A few things worth saying plainly, so no one feels they have to wonder:

If you are a Non Muslim and you are here, you are not a guest rather a member. This community carries the name it does because it grew from a particular hunger, a particular gap, a particular shelf. But books do not belong to any one faith, and neither does the love of them.

 Post in the language that feels most natural, whether that is English, Urdu, Hindi, or the way many of us actually think: all of them at once, mid-sentence. A short note in English helps others follow along, but do not let language be a wall. We will find each other

And one last thing worth saying clearly: this is not a place for religious debate, there are good places for that.

We are here for the books and the people who love them. That is the whole of it.

خوش آمدید / Welcome