It is not a dialogue, the author takes up the common questions of atheists and he tries to answer without any discussion.
A disappointing book on several aspects, the author tries to convince an atheist by Islam by arguing on a number of questions.
In the first place, the majority of the arguments are repetitive, it repeats what Christians have worked out for decades. For example, he speaks of the `` problem of evil '' which was first developed by Epicurus: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
Several philosophers have tried to answer the problem of epicure. The author takes a little bit of what has been said but he focuses on IRENAEN THEODICY (SOUL-MAKING THEODICY):’’ For Irenaeus, God could not have created humans in the perfect likeness of himself because attaining the likeness of God requires the willing co-operation of humans. God thus had to give humans free will in order for them to be able to willingly co-operate. Since freedom requires the ability to choose good over evil, God had to permit evil and suffering to occur.’’ The problem of evil-Jim Riley.
And then, he talked about Islam and Woman:
‘’I think you know perfectly well that Islam was revealed in the mid~t of a Jahili (barbaric and heathen) environment which condemned new-born girls to be buried alive while allowing men to marry up to twenty women and to force their slave-girls to prostitution and keep the 'proceeds' to themselves. ‘’
How could we say in the same sentence that girls were buried alive before Islam and that men could marry twenty women ???