Someone who has called himself “Potential Apostate” wants an urgent help. I believe there are many “Potential Apostates” out there that Muslims should help them to find the right path. So jump in:
Below are the questions that disturbed me and no one offered a sensible answer. Even Islamic sites filtered my questions and emailing them turned futile. Through your site, I would like to have answers of the following questions from Muslims, as they have closed all doors for debate and discussions. Face to face conversation is like a suicide. Please allow me to ask these questions from the medium of your site. All Muslims are welcome to leave comments below or email me at nothing.buttruth@yahoo.com. Here’re my questions to Muslims:
Q1. Why would God want his creation to not ask, questions, criticize, debate or experiment ideas that he gave us? This can only happen to cover up lies. This is the reason why we can’t question clergy about things like What’s the proof that God exists and what’s the proof that Muhammad is the prophet of God. Seems like a great deceit to make sheep out of humans. Only truth can stand the fierce scrutiny and criticism and still stand tall.
Q2. Why would God make religions appear only in poor, illiterate and desert areas? 1400 years ago, Greek were more scientific and progressive, why religion didn’t appear there instead? I tell you why. Because Muhammad could have only mislead the gullible, ignorant and poor people. In fact, his first followers were actually poor. Rich and literate people thought of him as crazy. Even today, if I go to a illiterate village and proclaim myself as a big saint, millions will follow me. That’s how easy it is to make stupid people more stupid. That’s why you don’t see new religions forming in Europe.
Q3. If there is Science in Islam, why didn’t God tell us how old the Universe is, how old Earth is, whether it is round or flat, how long it took for it to cool down, how Life began, how Life evolved? It seems that Allah knew only things that were already known at that time by the Greek and ancient scientists and philosophers. If I start a religion today, I wouldn’t forget to add an ayat, “And thou will not spread mischief in the earth which took us fifteen billion years to make. There are altogether eleven dimensions, yet the unbelievers deny our signs.” Ridiculous!
Q4. Why Abrahamic religions, specifically Islam is exclusivist? How can a truth be confined to some people and not others (people living in other places, other times etc. can’t be all wrong). Buddhism on the other hand is not exclusivist like Islam. Buddha even said don’t believe me, don’t believe your holy books, don’t believe what people say, but believe only what’s true to your heart and mind, because truth can only come from inside, not outside (outside = scriptures, prophets, gods).
Q5. Why would God care about whether people believe in him or not? The creator of the universes and each and every atom in them, can’t be so narrow minded, arrogant or stupid. Because arrogance means ‘covering up negative feelings about self’ and genuine God would rather be full of self-esteem than arrogance. God’s name being ‘Al-Mutakab-bir’ is beyond me.
If no Muslim can answer my questions above within one month, I would consider all my accusations along with my questions as true and would proclaim my apostasy (Period).
Peace!
You can write your answers down here to discuss it. Maybe we can help him.
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Q1. I agree with your final statement, only TRUTH can stand the fierce SCRUTINY and CRITICISM and STILL stand tall. In fact, only the Quran is STILL standing to any criticism ACCOMPANIED WITH SCRUTINY. It’s too easy to criticize but AFTER scrutiny, not after conclusion taken just on the base of an anti-Islamic perception and drawing with, as a UNIQUE purpose, making a max possible of people far from islam.
May be in the Christian society, “popely” ruled, u can’t ask nothing to the clergy, that’s not the case in islam:
[16:125] “You shall invite to the path of your Lord with wisdom and kind enlightenment, and DEBATE with them in the best possible manner. Your Lord knows best who has strayed from His path, and He knows best who are the guided ones.”
[36:78-81] “He raises a QUESTION to us - while forgetting his initial creation - "Who can resurrect the bones after they had rotted?" Say, "He will give them life Who created them for the first time! for He is Well-versed in every kind of creation!- The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree, when behold! ye kindle therewith (your own fires)! Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like thereof?" - Yea, indeed! for He is the Creator Supreme, of skill and knowledge (infinite)!”
Q2. “To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.” [Amos Bronson Alcott]
Poor and illiterate areas?! Take a look at the history please: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ISLAM/PRE.HTM or read about the first follower’s wealth http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/seerah/0061.htm
Muhammad, yes, he was poor and illiterate!
Many poor followers because they were oppressed by the clans over there and trusted in the Islam’s message.
With Jerusalem, Mecca is a holy place far before Muhammad’s time, and also before Jesus’ or Moses’ times, it’s a holy place since Abraham’s time who left there his son Ishmael (the Arabs’ father) and together they built first house of worship for God with the black stone (a recent chemical analysis of it revealed that this stone don’t exist in all the solar system)
No new religion because Muhammad is the last God’s prophet and if you proclaim yourself a big saint you will fail because of the contradictions you will do!
[4:82] “Why do they not study the Quran carefully? If it were from other than GOD, they would have found in it numerous CONTRADICTIONS.”
[17:88] “Say, "If all the humans and all the jinns banded together in order to produce a Quran like this, they could never produce anything like it, no matter how much assistance they lent one another."”
Q3. Yes, the Quran is full of science! And recent scientific discoveries on facts already mentioned inside made many scientists to convert to islam!
The age of universe and earth is told:
[22:47] “Yet they ask thee to hasten on the Punishment! But God will not fail in His Promise. Verily A DAY in the sight of thy Lord is LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS OF YOUR RECKONING.”
[70:4] “The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS:”
[21:30] “Do the unbelievers not realize that the heaven and the earth used to be ONE SOLID MASS that we EXPLODED into existence? And from water we made all living things. Would they believe?”
Universe’s age = 50000*365,25*1000 = 18,2625 billion years
Weither the earth is round or flat:
[79:30] “And the Earth, after that, He extended and made it egg-shaped”
The verb DEHAHA (in [79:30] “Vel'arda ba'de zalike dehaha.”) means both extended it on the shape of a DUHYA (ostrich egg)
Weither the earth is fixed or moving:
[27:88] “When you look at the MOUNTAINS, you think that they are standing still. But they are MOVING, LIKE THE CLOUDS. Such is the manufacture of GOD, who perfected everything. He is fully Cognizant of everything you do . »
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. http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/jaa/18/323-333.pdf
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The creation and the evolution is well described here http://www.aljazeerah.info/Islamic%20Editorials/2007/October/Creation%20and%20Evolution%20in%20the%20Holy%20Qur%27an%20By%20Hassan%20El-Najjar.htm
It seems to me that Greeks didn’t describe the fetus development, or darknesses levels in the oceans, or the tectonic behaviour, or, or, or, …
Q4. [49:13] “O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).”
Abrahamic religions and specifically Islam are inclusivists! Some religious are, unfortunately and wrongly, exclusivists.
Islam is the continuity of Christianity and Judaism and all the religions (including budhism, the non-distorted one http://knowingallah.com/subject_fo.asp?lang=en&parent_id=141&sub_id=2163 ) brought by the prophets before since Adam http://www.icpsnet.org/adm/pdf/1195032845.pdf
In the other hand, some occidentals and specially atheists are exclusivist! Major part of them are convinced that the truth is confined to them and not the others, and even more, they can't change their mind and won't change the subject becoming by the way Fanatics (following Churchill and a non-fanatic girl)
Prof Abdullah Saeed sad in a lecture Delivered in St David Lecture Theatre, University of Otago, Dunedin, N.Z., Wednesday 5th September 2007 5.10pm (http://www.dunedininterfaith.net.nz/lecture07.php )
“…Throughout Islamic tradition, there have been currents of thought that have always been inclusive. I have in mind here the very many Muslim mystics and their followers (sufis) who often maintained the inclusivist trend alive. What is different today is that a large number of non-sufis are also justifying the adoption of inclusivist interpretations. In a sense, this is a going back to the very early Islamic tradition of inclusivism. It is not a foreign concept.
Perhaps some members of the audience might find it hard to accept that Islam and the various expressions of it are conducive to inclusivism and peace. So much violence is being perpetrated in the name of Islam. Violence in places such as Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and a whole range of other regions in the world; suicide bombings, killings, and destruction are carried out in the name of Islam. Exclusivist rhetoric coming from people like Bin Laden and his supporters are widely known. These events and rhetoric are communicated and broadcasted daily across the globe. While the Islam that is portrayed on our television screens is accepted by some as the total reality of Islam, the vast majority of Muslims know this to be false.
Let me look briefly at inclusivism in early Islamic texts and practices
The commitment to be inclusive of the religious "other" and to live peacefully with other religious traditions, appear in key Islamic texts such as the Qur'an and prophetic traditions.
Perhaps a couple of examples might be sufficient. One such example is the Muslim belief in the continuity of the prophetic tradition (from the beginning of human presence on earth) and that Islam is not a unique religion.
From the very beginning, Prophet Muhammad believed that he was someone who was in the lineage of prophesy and prophethood. He never claimed that he came with a religion that was completely unique. His message was similar to that of other prophets who had come before him. This message could be reduced to the recognition of a divine being, and the call for human beings to live an ethical and moral life in the light of the teachings of the divine being.
Prophet Muhammad explained his mission as recorded in one of his traditions:
"The comparison between me and the preceding prophets is similar to a group of people who took part in building a house and completed it but for an empty space for one block or brick. Onlookers admired it and said in astonishment, 'What a beautiful mansion, if it were not for the place of the missing brick.' I have been this brick and I am the last or the seal of the prophets. Muhammad then emphasized, 'I am only one brick of it'"
The Qur'an emphasises this message of continuity. It says:
"We sent you [Muhammad] Inspiration to know Our will as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him. We sent Inspiration to Abraham, and Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, to Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the Psalms. Of some Messengers We have already told you, but there are others of whom We have not yet spoken.", Q. 4:163-164.
There are many such examples where references to biblical prophets, Judaism and Christianity are mentioend in the Qur'an. True. Other religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism were not mentioned in the Qur'an, not because the Prophet and the first Muslim community had no interest in them. These religions did not have a presence in Western Arabia.
This respect for other prophets and religions is reflected in the Qur'an where there is no strong criticism of a prophet as such. Nor is there criticism of the religions of Christianity or Judaism. On the contrary, for example, in the case of Jesus, the Qur'an says:
"The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was a Messenger of Allah, and His Word which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him." Q. 4:171.
This inclusive view of the other is also evident even when it comes to protection of religion and places of worship. In one verse, the Qur'an justifies warfare in defense of religion and places of worship, not just those of Muslims but also that of others:
Permission to fight is given to those who are being fought because they (believers) have been wronged, and surely, God is Able to give them (believers) victory - those who have been expelled from their homes unjustly only because they said: "Our Lord is God" - For had it not been that God checks one set of people by means of another, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, wherein the Name of God is mentioned much would surely have been pulled down. Q. 22:39-40
This generally inclusive view of the religious other does not mean that the Qur'an does not criticise certain Jewish or Christian groups. But that criticism should not be seen as criticism of all Jews or all Christians, or the Jewish faith or Christian faith as such. The Qur'an criticises many Muslim groups and even the Prophet himself. …”
Q5.
[14:8] “And Moses said: "If ye show ingratitude, YE AND ALL ON EARTH TOGETHER, yet is God FREE OF ALL WANTS, worthy of all praise.””
[27:40] “Said one who had knowledge of the Book: "I will bring it to thee within the twinkling of an eye!" Then when (Solomon) saw it placed firmly before him, he said: "This is by the Grace of my Lord!- to TEST me whether I am grateful or ungrateful! and if any is grateful, truly his gratitude is (a gain) FOR HIS OWN SOUL; but if any is ungrateful, truly my Lord is FREE OF ALL NEEDS, Supreme in Honour !"”
[6:133] “Thy Lord is SELF-SUFFICIENT, full of MERCY: if it were His will, He could destroy you, and in your place appoint whom He will as your successors, even as He raised you up from the posterity of other people.”
[35:15] “O ye men! It is YE THAT HAVE NEED of God: but God is the One FREE OF ALL WANTS, worthy of all praise.”
[39:7] “If you disbelieve, GOD DOES NOT NEED ANYONE. But He DISLIKES TO SEE HIS SERVANTS MAKE THE WRONG DECISION. If you decide to be appreciative, He is pleased FOR YOU. No soul bears the sins of any other soul. Ultimately, to your Lord is your return, then He will inform you of everything you had done. He is fully aware of the innermost thoughts. »
[64:6] “This is because their messengers went to them with clear proofs, but they said, "Shall we follow humans like us?" They disbelieved and turned away. GOD DOES NOT NEED THEM; GOD is in no need, Praiseworthy.”
Q6. http://www.rasoulallah.net/v2/folder.aspx?lang=en&folder=852
Hi, Salam Aleikum,
I just first want to say that I highly doubt that a Muslim concocted these questions. However, for the sake of argument, I will answer briefly.
Q1. The Quran and Hadith repeatedly instruct the Believer, the Human, to seek knowledge. Who said you are not allowed to ask questions? Allah Created us and created us with the faculties to explore and doubt and investigate for a reason. You have to understand something in order to freely embrace it. Allah does not want us to be mindless robots. He wants us to come to him freely and by choice. You cannot do that if you know nothing.
"Seeking knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim (male and female)." (Hadith)
"And say: My Lord increase me in knowledge."(Qur'an, Ta-Ha 20:114)
"Read: In the name of your Lord Who creates - creates man from a clot. Read: And your Lord is the Most Bounteous, Who teaches by the use of the pen, teaches man that which he knew not." Quran 96:105
"And He has subjected to you, as from Him, all that is in the heavens and on earth: behold, in that are signs indeed for those who reflect." (45: 13)
Hi, Salam Aleikum,
I just first want to say that I highly doubt that a Muslim concocted these questions. However, for the sake of argument, I will answer briefly.
Q1. The Quran and Hadith repeatedly instruct the Believer, the Human, to seek knowledge. Who said you are not allowed to ask questions? Allah Created us and created us with the faculties to explore and doubt and investigate for a reason. You have to understand something in order to freely embrace it. Allah does not want us to be mindless robots. He wants us to come to him freely and by choice. You cannot do that if you know nothing.
"Seeking knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim (male and female)." (Hadith)
"And say: My Lord increase me in knowledge."(Qur'an, Ta-Ha 20:114)
"Read: In the name of your Lord Who creates - creates man from a clot. Read: And your Lord is the Most Bounteous, Who teaches by the use of the pen, teaches man that which he knew not." Quran 96:105
"And He has subjected to you, as from Him, all that is in the heavens and on earth: behold, in that are signs indeed for those who reflect." (45: 13)
q2 Obviously you do not know the history of Arabia. Mecca was a Mecca of Trade and it was not poor. There are always poor people in any nation. However, Mecca was prosperous. Religion often is sought out by those with less because they are seeking some sort of equality or fairness. Its not a valid question. You are looking at the middleast now and assuming it was always the way it is now. And Religion began long before the Greeks. I should hope you do not see new religions being formed anywhere. Its a stupid questions and proves or disproves nothing.
Tell potential apostate I think he or she is a fraud. these questions are silly. its like faithfreedom minds all got together and came up with them. I thought after a brief glance there would be real questions. If this is the scope of Mr. or Mz. Apostate, he or she is free to jump out. Islam doesn't need any more numbskulls. salaam aleikum
I was searching something on Google and found a link and there were a few questions posed by a non muslim.
I mailed that link to a IRF then i felt ashamed that even i am a muslim i should try to answer these questions.
I prayed Allah and tried it.
As I am illiterate and dont know anything i need your help to add verses and hadith and your comments questions wise here.
please dont wirte jazak Allah mashaAllah etc without reading it.
its a doc file and you can download it.
http://www.2shared.com/document/PC_YWh87/Dear_All.html
there i only answer according to small wisdom that Allah gave me.
Thanks and Regards
Hammad....
I was searching something on Google and found a link and there were a few questions posed by a non muslim.
I mailed that link to a IRF then i felt ashamed that even i am a muslim i should try to answer these questions.
I prayed Allah and tried it.
As I am illiterate and dont know anything i need your help to add verses and hadith and your comments questions wise here.
please dont wirte jazak Allah mashaAllah etc without reading it.
its a doc file and you can download it.
http://www.2shared.com/document/PC_YWh87/Dear_All.html
there i only answer according to small wisdom that Allah gave me.
Thanks and Regards
Hammad....
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