13. DO NOT ASK QUESTION. YOU ARE A MUSLIM.

Sure we see some Muslims say that they are against “terrorism”, which they never really define. But have anybody ever seen any Muslim actually condemning any Jihadi group, Jihadi act, Jihadi concept in Islamic scriptures or Mohammed for his violent verses? Have any Muslim reviewed Quran or Hadish critically. No. The reason is that the Islamic scriptures warn them not to. Muslims are not permitted reasoning with Quran. The Quran warns Muslims not to ask too many questions.

“O ye who believe! Ask not questions about things which, if made plain to you, may cause you trouble. But if ye ask about things when the Quran is being revealed, they will be made plain to you, Allah will forgive those: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, most forbearing.”

If Muslims ask too many questions, the Quran states that they have lost their faith.  Now if a Muslim loses his faith then he becomes an apostate from Islam. Under Islamic Law apostasy is punishable by death. The “Reliance of the Traveller, A Classic Manual of Islamic Scared Law”, teaches that even denying a Quran verse is a blasphemy and if a Muslim blasphemes Islam, he is an apostate. Apostates should be killed as per Islamic law. “When a person who has reached puberty and is sane, voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed.”

Mohammed said, “Allah has forbidden you, (1) to be undutiful to your mothers, (2) to bury your daughters alive, (3) not to pay the rights of others (e.g. charity, etc.) and (4) to beg of men (begging). And Allah has hated you for (1) vain, useless talk, or that you talk too much about others, (2) asking too many questions, (in disputed religious matters) and (3) wasting wealth by extravagance. 

 Al-Mughira wrote: I heard the Prophet saying, “Allah has hated believers for three things:

1.         Vain talks or useless talk.

2.         Wasting of wealth by extravagance.

3.         And asking too many questions (in disputed religious matters) or asking others for something (except in great need). (See Hadith No. 591, Vol. Ill)

   Once Prophet was asked about things which he did not like and when the questioners insisted, the Prophet became angry. He then said to the people, “Ask me anything you like.” A man asked, “Who is my father?” The Prophet replied, “Your father is Hudhafa.” Then another man got up and said, “Who is my father, O Allah’s Apostle ?” He replied, “Your father is Salim, Maula (the freed slave) of Shaiba.” When ‘Umar saw that (the anger) on the face of the Prophet he immediately came forward and said, “O Allah’s Apostle! We repent to Allah (Our offending you).”

The Quran states that Mohammad’s actions are to be followed for all time. Mohammed married Ayesha at her tender age of six and consummated his marriage with Ayesha at her age of nine. So Muslims today also continue to marry young girls. Mohammed had eleven wives at one time and permitted other Muslims four wives at any time. Most Muslim countries permit men to have four wives at any particular time. Mohammed never hesitated to capture slave women from defeated non-Muslim groups and rape them. Muslims terrorist groups follow Mohammed and same ghastly act is repeated in modern times. Boko Haram, ISIL, Al Queda… , you name a Islamist terrorist group, all indulge in this malicious crime. Not only terrorist groups, individually Muslims are prone to sex related crime. They follow Mohammed’s actions. Forget about criticism of Mohammed’s perversion, no Muslim ever questions validity of Mohammed’s actions in today’s world. Mohammed practiced slavery. Even today slavery is unofficially practiced in several Muslim countries. Muslims cannot and do not criticize Mohammed. Muslims do not understand that Mohammed belonged to 6th century. He followed social practices of 6th century Arab. He did bring in few social reforms like stoppage of killing of female child but still his was a savage life. No Muslim accepts Mohammed was an illiterate savage Arab of 6th century. As long as Muslims fail to do introspection, they cannot change. They cannot become citizen of modern states. They are likely to commit terrorist act or a ghastly crime at any time.  They are likely to betray their country.

Today, Muslims are burdened with a religion of 6th century. A religion based upon partly Arab traditions of 6th century and partly Abrahamic religion. Mohammed was uneducated. He learned scriptures from Jews and Christians during his travels as a trader but was not exposed to religions of India and China. He was not conversant with Zoroastrianism also. But he intelligently mixed Arab practices with Judaism and Christianity with many self promoting features. Mohammed did not keep any provision for change or modification. Even though Mohammed was an extremely intelligent person of his time, he could not foresee humanity 14 centuries after his death. Therefore Islam cannot change. Muslims continue to be violent. In civilized society they do not fit.

Muslims are discouraged to read anything that contradicts Quran or scriptures, even advised to avoid people from another religion lest they get influenced or pick up new ideas. Mohammed told Muslims, “Go and seek knowledge.”  But he did not mean knowledge beyond Quran. He wanted to keep Muslims away from contact of non-believers and their ways of life which included their knowledge. Muslim army captured Alexandria in 642 AD.  They came across a Library containing 60,000 manuscripts. Commander asked Caliph what to do with the books. Caliph is said to have told, "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them." All books were destroyed by burning.

Centuries later, Muslims started getting acquainted with knowledge of the conquered people. It is no denying that Arab traders took the concept of Zero from India to Europe which was a precursor to explosion of knowledge in Western world. Muslims traded the knowledge of east with the knowledge of west. But Muslims were ready to accept only that knowledge which does not contradict their faith. Muslim education in general, was largely limited to theology and language (Arab). So when renaissance came in western world and Europeans started spreading around the globe, Muslim world started falling back despite having control over money and power of half the world. When Westerners were asking why, Muslims were persecuting enquirers.

Some excerpts from a lecture delivered by Sir Willium Muir at Cambridge in 1881 is aptly visualized:-

“Some, indeed, dream of an Islam in the future, rationalised and regenerate. All this has been tried already, and has miserably failed. The Quran has so encrusted the religion in a hard unyielding casement of ordinances and social laws, that if the shell be broken the life is gone. A rationalistic Islam would be Islam no longer. The contrast between our own faith and Islam is most remarkable. There are in our Scriptures living germs of truth, which accord with civil and religious liberty, and will expand with advancing civilisation. In Islam it is just the reverse. The Quran has no such teaching as with us that enabled west to abolish polygamy, slavery, and arbitrary divorce, and has elevated woman to her proper place. As a Reformer, Mohammed did advance his people to a certain point, but as a Prophet he left them fixed immovably at that point for all time to come. The tree is of artificial planting. Instead of containing within itself the germ of growth and adaptation to the various requirements of time and clime and circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when first planted some twelve centuries ago.”

There lies the problem. If you analyse Islam critically you will find the need to modify the faith. If you can modify Islam then there will be no Islam, as we know. If a social reformer can modify Islam such that Muslims accept it and the new formed Islam is adoptable to transparency, freedom and equality then he not only do a favour to Muslims of the world but also to humanity. Alas Muslims will kill such a reformer as an apostate before he could convince vast numbers. Islam is a dead religion.

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