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My Dear Friend Dr. Sina:
Hi, I
am a revert to Islam and as you already know I have
been having doubts. I have waves of belief and
disbelief. I don't really know what to
believe and what not to believe. You make some valid
points about Islam
but I am still compelled to believe. You left Islam,
when did you leave
it, how old were you, did you have any difficulty? What
are the key points that made you leave. Are there many
Muslims leaving Islam. I have to think allot about my
belief, but for now I still believe. There have been
many Islamic thinkers in the past centuries and for
them Islam seemed fine, how come it is not fine for
you. I look forward to your reply friend. C..
Dear
C. You
are not “compelled” to believe in anything (Unless
you live in an Islamic country, which I suppose you
don’t). You have chosen to believe and you can also
choose not to believe. Humans are capable to believe
in anything and when they do they can kill or die for
their faiths. But that does not prove the truth of
their beliefs. Faith is human’s most powerful
faculty. It must be guided by reason or it will very
dangerous. I
realized the falsity of religion in general and Islam
in particular only a few years ago. And yes it was
very difficult. I went through a range of emotional
upheaval, from anger to shame, from confusion to
guilt, from desperation to sadness, from bewilderment
to void ness. Until I finally accepted that this is
not my fault. I am not the one who is guilty. This is
all false. I already explained my reasons for leaving Islam. And yes I am not the only one. Majority of Muslim intellectuals do no more believe in Islam any more. Many of them don’t bother even to talk about it. They just abandon the practice and the belief, without making too much noise. This is understandable since the consequences could be not so pleasing. You
wrote, “There have been many Islamic thinkers in the
past centuries and for them Islam seemed fine, how
come it is not fine for you.” This is the biggest mistake that we people make. We assume that others must know better and blindly follow them. They in turn follow blindly others who have followed blindly yet others before them. We are not sheep. We are given a brain to use it and we are responsible for our own lives. Not just because something has unanimous acceptance is true. The Earth was never flat even when the entire world, including all our thinkers, philosophers, sears and prophets used to think so. Another important point is that most of the great brain of Islam like Ar Razi, Avicenna, Averroes, Khayam, Ibn Arabi and many more were apostates and constantly harassed and persecuted. Thank you for writing. Ali Sina
Dear Ali, Thank you for writing me that email. Those Quran and Hadeeth references shocked me. How could a religion promote injust behaviour like that. What you wrote made me think, I really have to think about my belief in Islam and whether I want to continue. I am quite conflicted as I like to think that I live according to humanistic values like democracy, freedom of thought and equal justice for all people, but these are obviously in conflict with Islamic values. How would society look if we lived according to these hadeeths? It would definetly be oppressive. But these hadeeths that you have put forward, what can an Imam say to counter them, he can say nothing, then why is Islam the fastest growing religion in the world, how can people continue to be Muslims when this is what they are told to do? It is shocking. I will think alot, I live in a western country where I am as you say not compelled to believe anything, I do not have to be a Muslim if I don't want to. Do you believe in God, do you follow any other religion? I look forward to your reply with any other comments that you may have. Regards, C. Dear C. Thanks again for the e-mail. You may find Cocooned in Lies and Who Feeds Fundamentalism answering some of your above questions. To learn about my spiritual belief please have a look at the articles in the section About God
Hey Ali Sina, why don’t you do some research on how technology can help Iranian people rather than digging old books on who did what to whom a 1000 years back!! Idiots like (you) are so dumb when it comes to up to date topics such as science and technology ! Babak
Dear Babak, It is true; our country is lagging behind industrial and civilized nations in science and technology. But it is my belief that what distracts us is our antiquated doctrines and beliefs. I see Islam as a hurdle to progress and rational thinking. We have to learn first how to walk before we can learn how to run. The Europe was languishing in the claws of religion until they entered a new era of reason, and revolutionized their thought with the renascence of new ideas. It was only then that they penetrated into mysteries of science and invented new technologies. We could keep borrowing their science and technology but if our mind is still shacked in primitive concepts imposed on us by dogmas of our grandfathers we can never assimilate them properly nor be participants in the advancement of the world civilization. I believe an overall review of our own belief system is essential, if we don’t want to fall prey to the insinuation of other charlatans like we did two decades ago. Kind regards Ali Sina
Question a) Why God NEEDS to be known? A. Sina If your god Allah does not “need” to be known, why is he so upset when people fail to know him to the extent that he would burn them in his cosmic rotisserie for ETERNITY. (Wow. that is a looooong time!). If not knowing him would only affect our own spiritual development depriving us from his blessings, etc. it is understandable. But Muhammad was very graphic in depicting a terrible Hell and a vengeful Allah that would “punish” those who decline to know him. There are many verses that show Allah would send the disbelievers to hell like this one "And as for those who disbelieve and reject Our Signs, they are the people of Hell" Q.5: 11 I don’t think (I need to go over them. One should suffice) Question b) If
He is so desperate to be known, why he dose not reveal
Himself to everyone just the way he revealed Himself
to his prophet? Answer:
From leading question to leading question ... here the
strawman erected in "a" is used to question
the mode of revelation. I think Allah’s desperation to be known is quite obvious from every verse of Quran. Otherwise why he threatens people with chastisement? Why he ordered his messenger to go about KILLING the unbelievers? Suppose you invite me to a banquet, if I decline I am the looser. But if you come after me and punish me for not coming to your feast there is something else going on. You must be mentally sick or something. Is Allah a sick god? Why he wants to punish people for not wanting to recognize him? Question c) Why he plays hide and seek and
then punishes those who fail to recognize him? BoR A. Sina The question in “a” and
“b” were not answered. But this is a separate
question. You cannot deny that Allah wants to be
known. According to Islam he has created the whole
universe so that people “know him and worship
him”. This is the purpose of creation, according to
Islam. "I
did not create Jinn and Men except that they may
worship me"
[Qur'an 51:56]. Allah wants to be known and worshiped. That is established throughout the Quran. He is so offended that people worship other deities save him that he would order his messenger fight and kill them and in the after life he would roast them in Hell for ever. That is the entire and the ONLY message of Quran. My question is why he dose not make himself known to people by revealing himself to them. If he did that to Moses and Muhammad, and they survived why he does not do it for everyone else? This is a simple question and if you had an answer you would not be dodging it. Question d)
A. Sina I consider Muhammad's assassinations of his enemies cowardly acts I also believe that raiding innocent people, killing them for not believing in what you believe is unethical and immoral. It is also unethical to sleep with a score of women some not even your wives. (Mariyah) It is extremely immoral to ask someone to sleep with you on the same day that you killed her father, husband and many of her relatives. (Safiyah) Which one of these stories are taken "out to the context"? What are their real contexts? I think “the facts have been adduced” beyond a shadow of doubt and never denied or rejected. What I posted from Christian sites is not irrelevant. They need to be answered. Just because they are posted in a Christian site they don’t become automatically null and void. Also there are many questions that I have asked in my own website and I am not a Christian. So you either deny the charges against Muhammad or accept them.
Question e) Why his words in Quran
are so contrary to science, logic and common sense? A. Sina These are mere assertions that any one says about his religion. We need proof. If Quran was from God, it should not have one single error. God is perfect and so should be his word. But since Quran contains thousands of errors of every kind what guarantees you have that it can actually guide you? Look at the result, the more a country is Islamic the more it is backward and barbaric. “Ye shall recognize them by their fruits”.
Dr. Bilal Philips (bilalphilips) “Salaam alaykum, there are so many errors in the article, (Safiyah)it sounds like a Jewish writer with an axe to grind and is full of misinterpretations (deliberate or otherwise). Suffice to say that the waleemah wasn't marriage but the marriage feast held "after" the marriage. So his case for sex before marriage due to excessive lust falls flat on its face. He chooses statements and interprets them as he wills and rejects clarifiying because they don't suite his premise. But all the texts are from the same source. Even his opening salvo about Safiyyah's rejection of the Prophet's advances wasn't mentioned in the text at all but was in the writer's mind as he assumed that she must have rejected them. Etc., etc. It's a typical example of missionary/Jewish anti-Islamic writing, and you can find much more in the libraries, bookstores and the internet.” Answer It is said, “The
best defense is an
offence”. It seems that Muslim apologists have taken
this to heart quite literally. Dr. Bilal Philips instead
of defending Muhammad for his apparently immoral and
unethical behavior in the case of Safiyah accuses me of
being a “Jewish writer”. In this way he brushes off
the importance of what the prophet of Allah did as if
any argument presented by a Jew is automatically
worthless. The following Hadith shows that after the Walima or the festivity, people still did not know whether Safiyah is going to become one of Muhammad's wives or will remain just a slave that prophet's "right hand possess"
Muhammad had intercourse with other women without marrying them. One of them was Mariyah the Coptic maid of Hafsa.
Khadijah I did read your article and I
found it well written and very powerful. I am going to
be re-reading it and doing much consideration of it's
contents.. (Khadijah is a white American woman who had converted to Islam and even wore Niqab. but she left Islam after learning more about it) Answer Dear Khadijah
There are a lot of
unauthentic hadiths, but for u to use that as a spring
board to abusive Prophet Muhammad and Islam is mean to
say the least. Answer Dear
Alisha, Regards
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