You Are Owned, by Default.
By Khalil Fariel
This is on a verse of Qur’an. Not at all ambiguous, nor scores of undertones confined, but all about a message. Can be taken in on the first glance because the intimation is obvious to any reader. Just an open recital suffices. However, to go in details requires discernment of Qur’an’s overall vicious disposition and consequent toxic discharges. The very factors that suspend an impartial reader in qualms over whether the tag of Holy or something contrary is befitting Qur’an. Moreover, this peculiar sense of uncertainty will force the reader to mull over recognition or remonstration, what exactly the book is asking for. Too deadly the effluences are for most to go for the latter option.
We go through the verses with all the above in our discernment:
Allah has purchased from the believers their selves and possessions, and for them is Paradise. They fight in the Way of Allah, slay, and are slain. [Qur’an 9:111]
Allah has ownership of everything. He owns faith, and it is his prerogative to bless faith NOT with all, but only to those, he is happy about. This arbitrariness of God is noticeable in Qur’an through statements like “He will guide whoever he likes and it is unto him to misguide and doom whosoever he likes to”. The Question why does God behave bizarrely can be provocative here, for the best in God’s defence coming out will be an ‘ad hoc’ statement from those who believe in this strange character. “God is beyond human comprehension”. Not always, but whenever the believer being cornered without anything in defence.
The concept of freewill is the grand total of illusion in Islam. Freewill is deceptive because, human beings in general have no sense of liberty in choosing anything other than what Allah wants them to choose. In case disbelief is written on anyone’s fate, there is no redemption from it. Allah, enjoying large-scale ownership of his subjects should be laughing all the way to heaven and hell whenever he dumps someone to hell despite of whatever good things the unfortunate person had done in life. One can submit to God, still a sojourn in paradise is a far cry.
This will be bewildering some readers, but I will quote a Sahih Hadith from Bukhari to solve it.
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “The deeds of anyone of you will not save you from the Hell Fire.” They said, “Even you will not be saved by your deeds, O Allah’s Apostle?” He said, “No, even I will not be saved unless and until Allah bestows His Mercy on me. [Sahih Bukhari: 8.470]
We have to dissect the verse 9:111 in this context. The message it conveys is significant for believers in Islam since there is something denotative of a transaction in it. If simply believing in Allah and performing the prescribed rituals is not sufficient to gain confidence in one’s abode hereafter, what about signing a deal or involving in a trade with the owner heaven? Give your life and whatever belongs to you in the divine cause, then in return Allah grants you his paradise, where you should necessarily end up. No matter how boring paradise seems to you, for there is nothing in it than eating and having fun with heavenly virgins. There will never be any shortage of anything for one to complain though.
The import of God purchasing the believer and all affairs denotes to a default position. Human beings are born in debt to their creator God. Indebted because God has already done the trade in their affairs. Their lives are not supposed to be their own, but it is the merchandise of a deal they did with their creator. They are owned by default. They should only carry on in accordance with the contract they made with God. If there occurs any shortcoming from them, that will effectively cancel the contract in the business to doom the souls in uncertainty. What should a believer go for rather than promptly according to the terms than nullifying it?
God is not at all hesitant to explicate what the transaction means. He goes on graphic to state, “it is to slay and be slain”. God cannot be more forthright in terms than this. One submits to him is supposed to slay (infidels) and in the course he will be slain too. Martyrdom is the ultimate means of attaining the prepared abode. What else this is other than indicative of terrorism in the present context? The whole of Muslims are to participate in Jihad, it is for Allah purchased their existence in this world. Recompense is due only in settling the pact by means of armed fight, because Allah has accentuated it with terms “slay” and be “slain”. There is no redemption from this going metaphorical or allegorical. That will be paying in hell.
The so-called “cause of Allah” can be confusing. What does it mean in any context? We may forget the fallibilities of God even after him proclaiming ‘he is in no need of help from any let alone devotees’. The exegesis of the particular verse does not stress on God’s reliance on his creation. Rather if anyone with the whole of his heart submits to God and observe the necessary rituals, still he needs to rely on God’s mercy in hereafter to get accommodated in the appropriate domain. Islam is not for salvation, rather it emphasizes the meaning of existence is to attain a physiological realm where all the pleasures forbidden in earthly life will be made available in abundance for the believer to enjoy. One might wonder how such a piece of materialistic ideology survived throughout centuries and still in existence!
The cause of Allah does mean establishment of Islamic governance over this planet. Wherever believers are stranded, they are to strive for establishing an Islamic state in which only Allah’s laws are functional. Allah has dictated civil and criminal laws in his book for believers to run a theocratic state. This state will dictate people how to live their life. Even a step around will be under scrutiny, because Allah has mentioned it through his seal of Prophets which foot should come first while going for shopping or going to answer the call of nature. Books of hadith, prophetic sayings are brazen in this regard. Amusing they seem when believers are instructed on which finger they should start while cutting nails. Which leg they should sit on while defecating, and the diversity of dhikr (holy utterances) in each action’s case. There are dhikr specifically designed for believers to utter when they are about to make intimate contact with their partners, during and after the incidence this dhikr varies.
That is not the end, there is mentioning of the position that is more favourable for God, moreover after the completion Allah has favoured positions for both to sleep also. There is special dhikr before sleeping, another exclusive one right after waking up. One that to utter before brushing, and if one feels like spiting, he should avoid doing it in his right side. Instructions are there before man setting out for his occupation, if he is in the field of business, there are holy utterances to pronounce while buying and selling products. All vary according to the situation, and believer cannot pledge with anyone without emphasizing ‘if God wills’. If anyone outside the sphere of this cranky system wants to know, how Islamic governance is like, these are something about it. All what I mentioned over are part of Islamic governance. And not to forget the whole of male species should grow beards and the length of the beard is also dictated. Barbers have limit in touching beards, but can go for balding heads.
Next time you hear or read from an Islamic propagandist “Islam is an absolute living system in all walks of human life”, consider all the above. There is nothing to cudgel brains. ‘All walks of human life’ will be somewhat fascinating a term, but when one recognizes it is all about some of God’s preferences, the term might lose its appeal altogether but not for true believers in One and Only God. God prefers a certain foot in toilet, or God does not want you to drink water while you are standing, or in a more intimate sense, God wants you stay more days with your new virgin partner over your old and worn out souls stranded in your supervision or better say detention. It is all about God’s peculiar likings.
If all that said tastes superficial, then I should add God’s basic proclivity to get his subjects martyred. It is the ultimate means of satisfying God and reserving a berth in the much boasted paradise. Boasted for its indigenous virgins especially for their looks and charms to human eyes.
And is it tempting enough? “Allah purchased our life and wealth” for what in the world? To foot left in the toilet and to spit necessarily on our left sides only? And in the world hereafter for some perpetual virgins with large bosoms?
Allah with his malicious penchants is highly effective a stimulant for his subjects to blow up among the crowd and too divine a cause for faithful to look for the jugular veins of infidels…! Hard to fathom why should the true believer then have his hands on CAPTAGON*?
(*Captagon is a synthetic stimulant of amphetamine class, darling of terrorist outfits like ISIS and its counterparts)
[Author is an Ex-Muslim resident of subcontinent. Can be reached at [email protected] In case reproducing authors article, please with a link to the original in this site]
The god of Islam likes it when non-Muslims [Kafirs] die. For example, the day after the London train bombing, on July 8, 2005 on Palestinian television Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah count them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed. [1]
As shown in an earlier posting the god of Islam is not the same god as the God of the Bible. The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundred of them…”[2]
Moreover, the Quran reads “When ye encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads, until ye have made great slaughter among them. Verily if Allah pleased, He could take vengeance on them without your assistance, but He commandeth you to fight His Battles.” XLVII C.625
In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Quran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach “by their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:20. [KJV]
[1] The disc documentary OBSESSION: RADICAL ISLAM’s AGAINST THE WEST
[2] THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY: THE WHOLE STORY OF MAN by H.G. Wells
A claim by Islamic scholars as well as jihadists is that no one can produce something as beautiful as the Quran in the way the words are arranged and thus it can only be of God. This claim should be answered.
First, all someone has to do is examine some of the great works of literature to fine much written beauty. Such as the Greek epic poet Homer with his Iliad and Odyssey and then Virgil who produced the Aeneid has beauty. Even one of the non-Bible books in the Apocrypha called The Song of Three Children is also very beautiful. Thus just because someone sees a work that is written in great beauty doesn’t mean it’s inspired by God.
Second, the scholar Edward Gibbon wrote after an examination of the Quran that it is an “incoherent jumble of fable and precept and declamation which seldom excites a sentiment or an idea, sometimes craws in the dust and is sometimes lost in the clouds…” The writer Thomas Carlyle wrote the Quran is “A wearisome jumble, crude, incondite [with] endless iterations [and] longwindedness…” Likewise, the philosopher David Hume was NOT favorably impressed after reading the Quran.
[Source of the three scholars mentioned – Secrets of The Koran: Revealing Insight Into Islam’s Holy Book .56,66, by Don Richardson]
Furthermore, the following should be taken into consideration.
Of course the Muslim who reads the Quran will see great beauty in the way the words are arranged. This is, in part, because of the power of suggestion after being told so many times that the Quran is so beautifully written. That’s an old brainwashing method, repeating and being told that same thing again and again. Since he or she is always being told the same lie will end up believing that lie. In addition to that, the Imams try to discourage their people from reading other works, such as the Bible, so then they don’t have much or anything to compare or contrast the Quran with. Of course there are some Muslim’s that do read other works, but they are exceptions and they read other things only after they were already brainwashed by the Imams. In short, the Muslims can’t read the Quran objectively because their Imams have programmed them to have a strong bias towards it.
The Greek philosopher Plato is one of the contributors to Western Civilization. He may shed some light into the subject of those people who are shackled in the chains and darkness of Islamic thought. In Plato’s REPUBLIC he gave an allegory of a cave where “the condition of men living in a sort of cavernous chamber…Here they have been from childhood, chained by leg and also by the neck, so that they cannot move and see only what is in front of them.” This can fit into what the Imams do in the mosques and how they brainwash the young people in the madrassa’s by always programming Islamic doctrine into their victims and not exposing them to other worldviews. Furthermore, even in Islamic tradition when Muslims have their newborn child the father whispers words of the Quran into the infants ear so that that Quran verses are the first thing the newborn person hears. This programming process takes place all their lives. These are some of the chains that keep them bound in a mosque [cave]. The chains do not let them reach out for dialectic reasoning and let them examine the evidence both for as well as against, or even question whether Muhammad was a true prophet of God or not, and if the Quran is a hoax or not. As the chains and darkness of the cave blinds and holds the prisoners back from reality, so Islamic propaganda holds back the cognition to reason with the question if Islam is true or not. They are forbidden from even thinking to question Islam. Furthermore, if a Muslim by some miracle wakes up to the truth about Islam, it would be like the man in Plato’s cave allegory who was released from his chains and taken outside to the real world. At first direct light would be painful and disorienting, it would take some time for him to understand what the truth is all about, he even might cling to the shadows and still for a time believe some of the illusions to be real. But he would finally come to know “what he had formerly seen was meaningless illusion.” And that was “what passed for wisdom in his former dewelling-place.”And that the other cave prisoners also needed to see the light [the truth] for he “was sorry for them.” and he would re-enter the cave just to rescue them. Nevertheless, the cave prisoners wouldn’t understand and “if they could lay hand on the man who was trying to set them free.” And if they could “they would kill him.” Likewise, when someone escapes from the shackles of Islam, those still in the darkness of this religion would not understand and if possible kill him for leaving Islam, and even more so if he were to try to enlighten them about the truth about Islam. For these people in Islam are chained to an empty imitation of truth and godliness.
An important question: is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax? The jihadists use many verses from the Quran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As seen in 4:89. 5:33.95,:111,123.47:4.There, the question is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
The above cartoon shows a lot.In that it gives a “visual aid” of “the blind leading the blind”, Mathew 15:14. For Jesus did predict and warned about of the coming of men who are false prophets. As Jesus stated “Beware of false prophets,which come to you in sheep’s clothing,but are inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew &15. Moreover,,the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.] The way to tell of a man is a true and real prophet of God who God had sent to humankind for the good and well being of all people.Or if he is, in contrast a false prophet sent by Satan to to lead many people astray. The way to tell the difference between a true and false prophet is if his doctrines and teaching go with are in in contradiction to the teaching and doctrines of the Bible. As explained Isaiah 8:20. which reads “To the law of the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”[K.J.V] This applies to not only religious teachers but also men who claim to be prophet. Including the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Thus the following Bible based information important. There are a number of imams and other Muslim apologists for Islam, in America, who have made the claim that both the Christians and the Muslims worship the same God. Likewise, there have been quite a number of “Christian” pastors who have made this same claim. Nevertheless, there remains the question it that claim true and valid or is it a false and invalid claim? The reality is that the god of Islam, which is the god of the Muslims, is a single being. In contrast the God of Christianity is much more complex. In that the God Who the Christian worship is the Triune God. Who is one and only God is in composed of, by His Own Nature, the Trinity. The Trinity may be defined as “Within the essence of the one God there are Three distinct Persons. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Otherwise known as the Tri-Personal Nature of God. Matthew 3:13-17. Second Corinthians 13:14. Moreover, in the book entitled MAJOR BIBLE THEMES by Lewis Sperry Chafter in page39 in informs the reader that “Many believe the the doctrine of the Trinity in implicit in the use of the word Elohim ,as a name for God which is in a plural form and seems to refer to the Triune God.” Likewise, in the Christian magazine PERHAPS TODAY, November-December 2013.on page 8 about Genesis 11 it reads “In the beginning God [this is the plural noun Elohim, meaning ‘more than one’] created the heavens and the earth.” Furthermore, to give only a few examples of this Triune God of the Bible is that in Genesis 1:26 it teaches “”God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after our likeness…” The very next verse, 27, is further reads “So God made man in His own image is changes from the plural “Us” and “Our” to the singular “His.” If not at least a hint of the Trinity then there is an agreement error. In addition in the New Testament in Matthew 28:19 Jesus declared “Go ye therefore ,and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father ,and the Son and the Holy Ghost” [K.J.V.] That is in the “name” not “names” Furthermore the interworking of the Trinity together may be seen in that the Father sanctifies, First Thessalonians 5:23. The Son sanctifies Ephesians 5:26. Hebrews 2:11; 9:12,14; 13;12. The Holy Spirit sanctifies, Romans 15:16. Second Thessalonians 2:13. Likewise, this may be further seen in that the Father raised Jesus from the dead, Romans 10:9,10. The Son raised Himself from the dead, John 2:19-21. The Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead, Romans 8:11. In conclusion, claim that the Christian and Muslim believe in and worship the same god is totally false. For by the Bible as well as logic and reason the god of Islam is not the God of Christianity. Likewise, the God of the Bible is not the god of the Koran.
Is there any mental illness worse than Islam? Perhaps someone can tell me.