THE Q'URAN CONSTRUCTIVE
CRITICISM
THE Q'URAN CONSTRUCTIVE
CRITICISM
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THE Q'URAN
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
"The first truth of true revelation is that it must be
revealed in its entirety from the very beginning of creation for
all of mankind."
The Light of Truth.
Truth alone triumphs
Satyameva Jayate
"In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful."Sura.
I:1
"Praise be to God, The Cherisher and Sustainer of the
Worlds;" Sura. 1:2
The infliction of great suffering on un-believers and innocent
creatures can hardly be deemed Merciful and Compassionate. Are
they not His own creatures? Isn't it unjust of this God to create
a world of non-Muslims and then call for their annihilation after
almost five thousand years. Such cruelty to non-Muslims and
innocent animals cannot be the work of a Merciful and Just God.
If all souls are created are they not all created innocent. Why do
some suffer in poverty and some find pleasure in wealth? All
souls, embodied as humans, and animals must be given the
opportunity to find happiness. Only then can God be called
Merciful and Compassionate. If God only renders his guidance to
believers (Muslims) then why is there so much misery and war in
the Islamic world.
"Most Gracious, Most Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgement.
Thee do we worship, and thine aid we seek." Sura 1:3,4,5.
Earthly justice would have been in total disaray and chaos if all
criminals had to be judged on one particular day. Besides keeping
them locked up until that day, would be infringing on the basic
rights of these individuals. Similarly it would be unjust of God,
who is All-wise, to judge all souls, from the beginning to the
last day of creation, on one particular day.
Obviously, there is no good in any other religions. Islam is 'true
religion' of God and there is no necessity for a judgement day.
For unbelievers a 'hell of blazing fire' is already a certainty
and believers are already guaranteed paradise. But, if there is
good in other religion then Islam is prejudicial.
"This is the book; in it is the guidance sure, without doubt,
to those who fear God; Who believe in the unseen, are steadfast in
prayer, and spend out of what we have provided for them; and who
believe in the Revelation sent to thee,and sent before thy time,
and (in their hearts) have the assurance of the Hereafter. They
are on (true) guidance, from their Lord, and it is these who will
prosper. As to those who reject Faith, it is the same to them
whether thou warn them or do not warn them; they will not
believe." Sura. 2:1-6
It is total arrogance on the part of Allah to heap praise on His
own book. Would it not have been praiseworthy had He not mentioned
it? Since the pious are already treading the right path without
intrinsic aid and the wicked are not directed by it, the
Revelation of the Koran [more on the Koran]] is of no use to
either. If it is permissible to have faith in God, why do not the
Muslims believe in the Bible in the same way as the Koran? If they
do, why then the necessity for the Koran to be revealed?
If it is argued that the Koran is more comprehensive than the
Bible, it might be asked if God had forgotten to write anything in
the latter book. If he did not then it was useless for Him to
reveal the Koran. If God had sealed their hearts and their hearing
and this leads them to commit sin, it would be God's fault. Since
the human soul is restricted, it cannot be held responsible for
its sinful or virtuous deeds as it is not free to act.
The Bible and Koran differ a little but yet three religions were
born of them. Why? Were not there enough divisions among mankind
already? It seemed as if this was the sole intent of this God of
Abraham to create a world of pain and miseries for His devotees.
"But give glad tidings to those who believe and work
righteousness, that their portion is Gardens, beneath which rivers
flow. Every time they are fed with fruits therefrom, they say:
?Why, this is what we were fed with before,? for they are given
things in similitude; and they have therein companions pure (and
holy); and they abide therein (for ever)." Sura 2:25
The paradise of the Muslims is in no respect better than this
world, because many of the same things are obtainable here. The
only exception is that men and women here die and are born again
whilst in paradise they live forever. On earth there are daily
struggles and passions for many things to pass time until death.
Many would like to know how they will pass their days in paradise
for all eternity? Since they shall enjoy wives then there is
reason for procreation and as no one is ever leaving, what happens
when their paradise becomes over crowded?
"Fight in the cause of God those who fight you...... And slay
them wherever ye catch them; and turn them out where they have
turned you out; ! For tumult and oppression are worse than
slaughter.....but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward
of those who suppress faith." Sura 2:190,191
These kinds of intolerant teachings of the Koran promote violent
and hateful attitudes that constantly prove fatal to society
throughout the ages. This religion does indeed teach cruelty
toward the non-Muslims and yet they boast of peace in Islam. They
have always lived up to their religion in this respect. Many have
lost their political supremacy while fighting for the cause of
their God. Surely, these things cannot be right. If an ignorant
person has abused us should we abuse him in return? God or His
enlightened votaries can never teach such things, nor could they
find in His word.
.."..He forgiveth whom He pleaseth........." Sura 4:284
If God guides whom He pleases, He might be misleading others with
whom He is not pleased. He alone can be called God and the
altruistic teacher who impartially guides all.
"The religion before God is Islam....." Sura 3:19
Is God the Lord of Muslims alone? Did not Divine religion exist at
all before fourteen hundred years? To claim a religion to be true
by merely proclaiming it to be true to the followers is nothing
more than brainwashing. By the same token why should any one doubt
the claim of any other religion which proclaims itself to be true.
It is always in the best interest of good learning to let the
individual decide after good thought and reasoning what is true
and what is false.
"....Is it not enough for you that God should help you with
three thousand angels (Specially) sent down?? Sura 3:124
This God was so merciful and compassionate to the Muslims of long
ago that whenever they were in trouble, He would send angels to
their assistance. One wonders why he has completely ignored them
in their times of troubles, today. In total defiance of their Holy
Koran, they have to rely on Christian troops (unbelievers) to
protect them - not from only unbelievers but mostly their own.
"If anyone contends with the Apostle even after guidance has
been plainly conveyed to him, and follows a path other than that
becoming to men of faith, we shall leave him in the path he has
chosen, and land him in hell, - what an evil." Sura
4"115
This is driving fear into the ignorant, binding them to strict
obedience to Mohammed and his God. There is no necessity for such
a verse. If it was really the 'true religion,' why would the
Prophet has to use fear to stamp his religion with divine
authority.
"O ye who believe! Take not for friends unbelievers rather
than believers....." Sura 4:144
Is there any hope for lasting peace in this world? Muslims tell
the world that "Islam" means "peace" while the
Koran speaks of the opposite. This is why it is necessary to
examine the doctrines of all religions to know what is true or
false.
" ...........God forgives what is past: but for repetition
God will exact from him the penalty....." Sura 5;98
When is the past really determined? If it is a day before you die,
then there was no need to send down such a lengthy revelation when
this one verse can assure all Muslims of paradise. The forgiveness
of sin is almost as bad as the sanction of its commission which
encourages further growth.
"....In thy (very) soul, with humility and in reverence,
without loudness in words, in the mornings and evenings....
." Sura 7:205
This must be very confused situation when it comes to praying. At
one place the Koran says that God should be spoken to aloud, while
at another place it says that He should be addressed "without
loud spoken words."
"One day we shall remove mountains, and thou wilt see the
earth as a level stretch..." Sura 18:47
Those were the days when Christians believed the earth was flat.
It will be impossible for the earth to be seen as a level stretch
even if all landmarks are removed. Believing even one truth in the
Koran, when its author is ignorant of simple geography, will be
difficult.
"Again, on the day of judgement, will ye be raised up."
Sura 23:16
Will the dead dwell in their graves or in another place before
resurrection day? If it is the grave, even the virtuous will
suffer pain because of the smell from decomposition. The period of
confinement in a grave, for those who have died from the beginning
creation, until judgement day could be worst than hell.
"....is a beautiful place of (final) return; Gardens of
eternity, whose doors will (ever) be open to them; therein will
they recline (at ease) therein can they call (at pleasure) for
fruit in abundance, and (delicious ) drink; and beside them will
be chaste women restraining their glances (companions) of equal
age." Sura 38:49-52
If there are gardens and orchards in paradise, as stated in the
Koran, they neither have existed from eternity nor can they remain
there for ever. The things, which result from the combination of
elements, did not exist before that combination and will surely
cease to exist after Dissolution. When these things will disappear
from paradise, how can the dwellers live there for eternity? The
fact that Arabs have been promised cushions, pillows, fruits, and
drinks, proves that Arabia was not very affluent circumstance at
the time the Islamic religion was founded.
It was consequently the poor people who Mohammed entrapped into
Islam by such temptations. Perpetual happiness cannot reign where
women are to be found. Where did these virgins come from since no
one goes to paradise until judgement day? This paradise must be
afflicted with maladies. If the dwellers have got bodies, they
must die and if they have got no bodies, they cannot gratify their
lust. What then is the use of paradise? A being who recites old
wives "tales and kills other people through prejudice cannot
be God.
"When Jesus came with clear signs, he said: ?Now have I come
to you with wisdom......."Sura 43:63
If God sent Jesus with clear signs, why did He then send down the
Koran whose teachings are opposed to that of Christ? He created
one wife for Adam, gave none to Jesus and swamped Mohammad with
eleven. Did He not know that He would have had trouble with
Mohammad and his wives? It seems He was better off with Jesus
since the latter had no wife and no women had to be threatened.
Since the Biblical teaching is opposed to that of the Koran,
neither of these can be of Divine revelation.
Satyameva Jayate
Truth alone triumphs
ISLAM
THE GREATEST THREAT TO HUMAN CIVILIZATION
"The first truth of true revelation is that it must be
revealed in its entirety from the very beginning of creation for
all of mankind."
The Light of Truth.
Truth alone triumphs
Satyameva Jayate
It was in Arabia where Muslims claim that it was the last
revelation by God to the Prophet Muhammad. Islam is a religion
that has shown tremendous growth and is the fastest growing
doctrine in the world today. This again points to the direction of
the decay of civilization as the Law of Nature dictates, through
the objective means of unrighteousness.
Among Muslims, there are strong differences of opinion regarding
the interpretation of certain words and verses. As a result, they
divide themselves into many opposing sects, yet all are agree as
to the revealed character of the Koran (see Chapter 14) One can
attest to this by the sectarian violence in the Islamic countries.
The Shiite and Sunni are the two main opposing sects that make up
the religion of Islam.
Like Christianity, it contains many dogmas and beliefs accepted by
Muslims who believe implicitly in the Holy Koran (Yusuf Ali's
Translation) which says: -
"Those who reject our signs, we shall soon cast them into the
fire. As soon as their skins are wasted through; we shall change
them for fresh skins that they may taste the penalty, for God is
exalted in power wise....…." (Vol. 1 Pg. 197)
"Verily God has cursed the un-believers and prepared for them
a Blazing Fire.
To dwell therein for ever, no protector will they find."
(Vol. 3 Pg. 1121)
"The day that their faces will be turned upside down in fire,
they will say:-
"Woe to us, would that we had obeyed God and obeyed the
Apostle." (Vol.3 Pg.1121)
Such intolerant teachings can never be a true revelation by a
Just, Merciful and Compassionate God. Since Allah's revelation did
not take place in the beginning of creation. He alone is
responsible for creating unbelievers and therefore, is erroneous
and iniquitous of Him to ask believers to correct His mistakes by
waging war.
"O ye who believe! Fight the Unbelievers who gird you about,
and let them find firmness in you: and know that God is with those
who fear Him. See they not that they are tried every year once or
twice? Yet they turn not in repentance and they take no
heed." Sura.9: 123,126.
These teachings, advocating the destruction of one's friend are in
total defiance of all noble instinct. The Koran is teaching the
Muslims to fight with their neighbors, to wage war against them
and slaughter them whenever they like in the name of Allah.
The puritanical Islamic teachings with no exposure to other
ideologies are the true product of extreme fanaticism. The killing
machine of men who shows no mercy to even their own, has become
the most feared the world has ever known. They are unstoppable
martyrs beckoning the Koran's sacred welcoming-followers called
"Jihad" or "holy war." The abominable Islamic
leaders are usually sequestered from these bloody actions, but
their ruthless command is deadlier than the sword itself.
The brutality in the Ottoman and Mogul era is extremely depressive
to be reminded of. Millions of men, women and children in Asia,
Europe, Africa and the Middle East met their death or suffered
mentally and physically at the hands of the tyrannical Muslim
invaders. India was no exception to these barbarity where Hinduism
was crushed by the deadly force of Islam. Their books were burnt
and rewritten and their temples demolished or turned into Mosques.
The THE TAJ MAHAL was such a temple.
Islamic law encourages men to have more than one wife.The world
has a population of five billion seven hundred and fifty million
people and is rising by one hundred and twenty million a year (UN
report dec. 1995). There are already too many people. Encouraging
everyone to convert to Islam will definitely be catastrophic. Do
the Muslim scholars and their Koran have an answer to a population
explosion? Construing that God will send his last revelation to
encourage the imminent destruction of His creation in such a
manner is preposterous.
In the Paradise of Islam, the males are promised virgins. How did
the virgins get there? What did Allah promise the women when they
go to Paradise? They get 1/72th of a man. It seems to me, that the
reward for women in the Muslim's paradise will be worse than on
earth, where at least they get 1/4 of a man.
In every corner of the Islamic world there are myriads of mosques.
Muslims are in prayers (five times or more daily) more than any
other faith groups in the world today; and their explanation of
the word "Islam" means "peace". The Koran
teaches that, for each time of prayer, peace is multiplied tenfold
yet they rarely enjoy any peace. Their dilemma seems be worst than
the unbelievers. Since one's religion can be blasphemed or be
desecrated , how can any one of any faith enjoy true inner
happiness when there is anger ?
There is no doubt that the Q'uran does not have some truth. These
few truths allowed for the peaceful co-existence among the
believers. But, on the other hand, when it is tainted with so many
untrue and intolerant teachings it will sporadically bring chaos
to that peaceful coexistence. There is no shortages of these
proven events throughout Muslim history.
Islam is clamed to be monotheists and free of idol worship. If it
is so why do millions go to Mecca and prostrate themselves before
a big black rock? The idol-worshipers by facing their image use
the same method. The only difference, is their images are small
and that of Islam is one huge one, a gift they claim was sent by
the Angel Gabriel
. It is the belief that every Muslim must go to Haj, if they can
afford it, at least once in his life time. If this facilitates a
definite ascension to Paradise, then millions of poor Muslims no
matter how devoted they are, will be stranded. Favoring the
privileged few is unjust of a Merciful and Compassionate God who
denies the destitute majority.
The millions who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca laud themselves
of the divine bliss in which they were immersed in. However this
cannot be held to be true for those who have suffered miserably by
many tragic events which occur during haj. Credulity has a
marvelous way of exciting an artificial divine passion among the
millions of white-robed believers. The question is, can the same
hold for small gathering
Islam, which Muslims deemed 'perfect religion', cannot bring peace
and harmony to the world when believers, the prophet Mohammed and
their God can be offended.One man, unknown to most of the world,
by the stroke of a pen shook the very foundation of the 'true
religion.' This religion followed by almost 20 percent of the
world's population was enraged by Solomon Rushdie's Satanic
Verses.
The realities of desert conditions that circumvent the revelation
of the KORAN [more on the Islam] must be brought to bare for what
they were really were. There were major shortages of basic
necessities of water and food (vegetables and fruits) for the
inhabitants of the desert of Arabia. The ignorant were easily
misguided by those who could offer them, not only the basics, but
any other means of luxury.
Satyameva Jayate
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