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Afra
Dear Ali
There are some things i want
to figure out.. Ive been thinking about this whole thing like how all of us are misguided and that Muhammad was
a liar and not a prophet ...... If it is the truth how come i feel
ashamed of such feelings in my heart because
all of my family is muslim i cannot speak out loud....i feel like a loser.... Truth has strength
where is that strength...... when my parents tell me to pray
i feel very bad telling them that
ill start praying i feel like a hypocrite with shattered personality
I cant do this anymore I want to say
it out loud.......what kind of a life is this......... what do i look forward
to? where do i draw the line of
morality and all that Im a pushtun.......Now i feel like a
coward....trying to secure my existence and survival....with no moral values
......Im told if im an athiest ive no values i could kill and do anything
......... I hate this new religion
................ Man why cant we win from Muhammad Though Im convinced that
islam is not true........ it seems there is nowhere else to go to......... The Quraish also didn't win
.......Muhammad told them that theyd lose and they did........... didn't they?
The romans persians everybody
lost Why is truth so weak ..........?? Tell me How do i live an honourable
life with something else on
my mouth and something else in my heart............ Looks like im gonna kill somone or
get killed myself..... im a medical student and failed an exam this year
....because of muhammad .......i
hate him
Dear Afra, I read your email and I am very sorry to hear you are going
through a difficult emotional stress. First of all let me tell you that what you are experiencing
has nothing to do with Islam or your departure from it. You are a young man and
as human beings we are subject to our biological and hormonal changes. It is
natural for young people to go through such identity crisis. But this won’t
last forever. Everyone will eventually grow out of it. It is like growing teeth.
All children will grow teeth and all of them experience pain but everyone will
survive the experience. So please take it easy and know that it is okay if you
feel stressed out. You will grow out of it. You are now alone in your environment and cannot share your
thoughts and feelings with others who do not understand you and do not agree
with you. Naturally you blame your feelings and distinct thoughts. But believe
me your feelings have nothing to do with Islam, your faith or lack of it. You wrote, “If it is the truth how come i feel ashamed of
such feelings in my heart” I wrote an article describing the
psychological phases or rather trauma that one goes through in his
passage from faith to enlightenment. I urge you to read it. In this article I
described my own experience. One of the phases of this process is guilt. Yes
indeed I felt guilt for rejecting my faith. I was ashamed of my thoughts. I
tried hard to dismiss them and think about other things that could strengthen my
faith. I even hid the book of Quran behind other books in my bookshelf so I do
not see it and do not think about the horrors that I came to find in it. I
desperately was seeking to go back to my comfort zone. In that comfort zone I
was secure, but with the thoughts that I had I was left in the air. I knew that
I no more could accept the nonsense that I read in Quran but I did not know what
to believe. This period of my life was not easy. It was traumatic. But when I
passed through all the stages of this treacherous path and came to the valley of
enlightenment I felt such a joy that is beyond description. You are now in the middle of your way. The problem is that
you cannot go back. Of course you can try. But the bridges are broken and the
gates are closed. You have eaten from the forbidden tree of knowledge, your eyes
are open and you are cast out of the paradise of ignorance where everyone else
that you know resides. So the only option left to you is to go forward until you
find the valley of enlightenment. You asked, “Truth has strength where is that strength? Yes truth has strength. But don’t be impatient. For now
all you know is that Islam is a false doctrine. This is only half of the truth.
You haven’t fount the truth yet. So you lost something and have found nothing
to replace it with. You feel the void. You are frustrated, angry, ashamed and
stressed out. Unfortunately truth is not something one could teach. “Truth is a pathless land”. Wrote Krishnamurti. “Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. I cannot tell you what is the truth. I cannot show
you the way. Truth is something you "wake up" to it and you become
enlightened. Enlightening is It is just like lightening. Perhaps that is were
the name comes from. Suddenly in the darkness of night the lightning
illumines everything. It is intense and short lived. This is the best way I can
explain it. You wrote, “what kind of a life is this......... what do
i look forward to? where do i draw
the line of morality” This is the life of enlightenment. It is a beautiful life.
This is a life that instead of dogmas, and absurd beliefs the love of humanity
fills your heart. I think it was Frank Sinatra who said “I have been poor and
I have been rich. Rich is better”. I would like to copy that statement and
say, “I have been a fanatic and I have been an enlightened, Enlightened is
better!” As for morality, know that morality is not the domain of
religions. One needs no religion to be a moral person. We humans invented the
morality and we can keep it even without religions. As a matter of fact morality
is relative. The morality of religions is the morality of ancient people that is
no more moral in our days. In fact living the morality of the religions as it is
prescribed in the Bible or the Quran is immoral and even illegal. I have an article
on morality. Please take a look at it. Atheists have values. Whoever told to the contrary was
misinformed. But you need not be an atheist to denounce religions. Many people
continue to believe in a god despite the fact that they do not believe in any
religion. I am not an atheist in the strict sense of the world either. I do
believe in a Single Principle underlying the creation. I do not believe in the
god of the religions and especially in Allah that lacks decency and is a vile
and violent deity. Such god cannot exist. Allah is but the figment of
Muhammad’s imagination. Do you believe in love? If so you believe in God. When you
love you experience God. There is no need to bow in front of air and pray to a
wall. God does not need our worship. Fill your heart with love and you’ll
experience God. You spoke of values. I am an Ethical Humanist. I have many
values. But my values are not the same values taught by religions. In all religions women are worth less than men. In Islam you can even beat your wife. My values are very different. I consider women as equals. In Islam it is okay to lust after other women even if you are already married. You can marry up to four wives and have concubines. I believe in monogamy. Muslims are taught to believe that those who do not share their beliefs are inferior and will go to hell. According to my values the worth of an individual is in his spiritual, Intellectual and emotional maturity not in his beliefs. Islam teaches religious apartheid I believe is unity of human kind. Islam teaches the importance of faith without questioning. I think this is the most stupid thing one can do. The worth of a human being is in his or her ability of doubting, questioning and reasoning. As you see we Humanists have a lot of values but we do not subscribe and do not agree with the outdated and unjust values of religions. You wrote, “Man why cant we win from Muhammad?” Who said we can't win? We are winning. Islam is a
religion in fast demise. Everyday thousands of enlightened Muslims leave Islam,
though they do that quietly and without fanfare for obvious reasons. Islam is
total darkness that has maintained itself by silencing the voices of opposition,
killing them and banning and burning the books that would expose it. As long as
Islam can maintain this rein of terror, it will endure. But the technology
has caught up with it. Today for the first time we can unveil the ugly
face of this cult and the no one can stop us. Those of us who see the
truth of Islam are coming together and our number is increasing day by day. This
is becoming a movement that will eventually slay this snake that is
strangulating our people, keeping our nations in darkness, poverty and
ignorance. You wrote, “The Quraish also didn't win…. Why is truth
so weak ?? The Quraish was subdued by force, so the Persians and
others who converted to Islam. But the past is not the mirror of the future. In
the old times people thought that might is right and just because Muhammad was a
ruthless and cunning warlord they believed God must be behind him. But today the
pen is mightier than sword. Today Islamists lose despite expending billions of
dollars in their propaganda campaigns and in their terrorist activities. Today
Internet sites like mine will do more damage to Islam that was unthinkable a
decade ago. No the truth is not weak. It is very powerful. Truth is
often compared to light and falsehood to darkness. Of course light is more
powerful than darkness. A small flame can eliminate the darkness of the night.
No amount of darkness can withstand the strength of the light of the day. But
you have to allow the light to come in. Islam does not allow the truth to speak
out. Those who dared were killed. Of course you can perpetuate the lies by
keeping the truth at bay. But that is changing. Today they cannot stop us. The
light of the truth is rising to the zenith and no amount of Islamic terrorism
can eclipse it. You wrote, “Tell me How do i live an honourable life
with something else on my mouth and something else in my heart? Of course it is not easy. That is why many leave their
countries and go where they can find freedom to express themselves. You should
know that many of the same people whom you see and believe to be Muslims, have
the same doubts about Islam just as you. But just as you they cannot reveal what
is in their hearts. Just like you they are pretending to believe and say with
their lips things that their hearts belie. Let me conclude by reiterating once more that what you feel has nothing to do with Islam. You will eventually grow out of it. You did not fail your exam because of Muhammad. You simply did not study enough. That is all! Next time you can pay more attention to your studies and you’ll see that you would do great. Now don’t kill yourself nor someone else. Just wait. Take one day at the time. Live just that day to its fullest, be productive and happy for that day only. Soon you’ll see that these difficult years pass before you notice it, you have finished your studies and you may even have found enlightenment. Kind regards
Dear ali thank you for writing to me that reply.... Listen i was wondering ....Do u think Muhammad has some secret sharring people.... like Do u think that his wives or his very close friends must have known ... Because one cannot fool his very close relatives..They just HAVE TO KNOW THAT THIS MAN IS LYING ....IT CANT BE OTHERWISE
THEY HAVE TO DONT U
THINK .... Dear Afra, Muhammad is indeed a very clear case of narcissism. Muhammad was a
schizophrenic and a narcissist. Muhammad certainly had schizophrenic
experiences. He had visions of genies and angle Gabriel that to him were real.
He had suicidal tendencies. The way he walked and his piercing glace, his temper
and his mood changes are all indications of his mental infirmity. These are all
reported in the hadith. But when those hallucinations subsided he kept lied.
Narcissists lie so convincingly that they themselves believe it. I have written
an article that explains this in more detail. Please join our egroup at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/ Kind regards
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