15 Questions A Muslim Would Never Like to answer

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.

Q6. Why would God choose a mass murderer, rapist, blasphemer, pedophile, madman and power and sex hungry person as his prophet? Marriage with 9 year old Aisha, Marriage with his daughter-in-law Zainab, Marriage with Javairah, his slave after killing his father, husband and brother the same day, killing others just because they don’t believed him, killing someone if they change their religion, killing without reason, spreading Islam not with discussion, logic or spirituality but with murder and war is beyond me.

Q7. Ali Sina says that Muhammad was a mentally sick person or what you call a narcissist having temporal lobe epilepsy. I watched a video on ‘Temporal Lobe Epilepsy’ on YouTube. It is a BBC documentary and the way it describes about the experiences of people with sensitive temporal lobe resembles exactly how Muhammad acted when he used to get revelations, sweating, feeling guilty and sad, feeling that he’ll go mad and that sort of thing. Furthermore, why an angle would make him feel so demonic and depressed is beyond me? Aren’t we humans supposed to experience something enlightening, happy and peaceful when such alleged experiences take place?

Q8. Why shouldn’t we accept for others, laws and morals we deem perfect for ourselves. That’s the only measure of truth. If I speak truth, do good, be gentle, I would want the same to happen to all people. Following this logic, if a Muslim who becomes a Hindu should be killed, shouldn’t we teach these great laws to all other religions. Shouldn’t Hindus, Christians and Jews also kill people who become Muslims? Why not? If what we regard as moral and as truth, shouldn’t that be true to all others?

Q9. It seems that Muhammad was not a nice man, I couldn’t find a single act of kindness from this person in the whole of Islam’s history. The only two stories of kindness were the story of Jew lady who used to throw garbage at prophet and he, at the time of her death came to visit her. And another incident about a young man who used to eat too much sugar and her mother requested Muhammad to ask him to stop it. He didn’t ask him to stop anything but later asked him to stop eating too much sugar because this time around he himself stopped eating too much sugar. Both of these stories are fables and are not found in Quran, Hadiths or the complete Islamic History. If I am wrong, find me any ayat or hadith matching these stories. I will not become apostate if you can tell me a single incident of kindness ever done by Muhammad. Remember, you can’t tell me about what Muhammad said to his followers about how to conduct life and be kind etc. I want his own personal acts of kindness only. Any Schmuck can ask others to do good and himself do otherwise.

Q10. Why a person who is religious is more prone to absurdities and away from reality of life? Why an educated person is less likely to be religious? Doesn’t that mean that religion is for the gullible, weak and immature? Why was Einstein, the most intelligent person who walked on earth was not religious. If it didn’t worked for him (most intelligent) How can you claim that you know better? If he worked it out without religion, why it won’t work for you?

Q11. If God created us and sent Adam from Heaven to Earth, why are there fossils found for all early primates that were neither chimp nor humans? Checkout this link. What does God created something actually mean? Wherever science looks, it finds some process involved, no magic! Is God subjugated to natural laws? In our present lives we don’t see magic happening, no waters parted, no virgin births, no moons being cut and no back to the future Miraj happening. Humans have always attributed magical thinking to past and future events to make a sense of the world they live in. In other words, ‘I didn’t see it happen therefore magic man did it!’ Doesn’t it make sense?

Q12. If we have souls and are either to go to heaven or hell, why don’t animals have souls? Since we’ve evolved from animals, and early humans like homo erectus or homo habilis were intelligent too (slightly lower than us) would they also be judged on the judgment day? If not, why not? They didn’t have any prophets too, because their brains didn’t think in malignant ways like us. We are more clever. Doesn’t that prove that the more clever we get the more potential we have to become notorious and the most likely it is for a God to appear out of no where? (God didn’t made us in his own image, we made God in our own image).

Q13. Buddhists are more moral than Muslims. They won’t burn embassies, temples and churches to prove they are true. They don’t believe in a God. Does it not mean that morality doesn’t depend upon God or absolute laws but inner resolve and commitment? Only immature and morally bankrupt people need fear of hell or greed of heaven to be moral.

Q14. If Quran is the Guidance from God, why can it be shaped in any way of thinking imaginable? A book of guidance from God should be straight forward and objective rather than being subjective and full of discrepancies. But it seems our Omniscient God thinks like humans and learns via trial and error.

Q15. If the only reason one should stick to religion is because of the uncertainties of the afterlife, what if it turned out that, there in fact is a God who tested us all to see whether we become fools at the hands of authority, religion and society or discover the truth and reality of life. All those who allow themselves to become fools may end up in hell and all those who turn to truth and reality are given heaven. Doesn’t it seem more rational for a thinking person to assume, by observing all the multitudes of religions in the world than to follow Islam?

Bharat Mata An Analysis

The latest addition to the phenomenon of worshiping god as mother was in the late nineteenth century with the growing spirit of nationalism among the masses in India the idea of desamata or mother nation sprang forward into existence . it earliest roots can, however be traced back to the vedic era when our planet earth was compared to mother. Phrases comparing earth with a feminine force is quite common for that era but idea of the nation as a female principle is not that old .

This was perhaps because in a vast multicultural country like India each region differed from the other and identified itself as one particular nation . however it would be incorrect to say that there was absolutely no unity among different regions in India, common beliefs, practices, gods, scriptures maintained a definite national character which was properly projected in the colonial era .

The belief of earth as mother which was nourished in the minds of people for ages found its final shape in the personification of mother India. The most popular praise sung to her was composed by the renowned Bengali writer vankim chandra chatterjee in the famous novel anandamath. It is the vande matram. It speaks of a sujala suphala (plentiful) green country which has the most beautiful moonlit nights abound with choicest flowers. She is ever smiling and has pleasing mannerisms. She herself is the durga of ten arms. It to her that we bow down. In such a description we can see the way in which the prevalent shakta bhakti thought has merged into nationalistic ideals.

In this very book there is an interesting comparison between the past present and future of India . the past is shown as Devi jagadhhatri, sitting on a lion .she is bedecked with every possible jewels and holds weapons in her arms . she is the queen of all nations — rajrajeshwari. The present (those days) is compared to terrifying kali. She has been robbed of her jewels and stand naked. She is in ignorance and tramples her own god (shiva) under her feet. She resides in the crematorium like condition of colonial india under british subjugation. In the future she would become the durga . she would be at the top of all the nations once more. she has the complexion of molten gold. She has laxmi (wealth ) saraswati (knowledge and excellence), ganesh ( aupiciousness ) and kartik( strentgh ) at her disposal. She tramples all evil (mahishasur) at her feet. The king of beasts is her vahana.

Numerous authors poets and politicians also contributed to the growth of this concept of mother india. Some songs of rabindranath tagore stand out in particular–

"" you have come out of the heart of bangladesh(colonial state of bengal) in the form of a loving mother .
i keep on staring at your inexpressible beauty .
the doors have opened to a golden temple .
your right hand shines with a dreadfull scimitar,
but your left hand in raised in gesture of fearlessness (abhaya mudra) ,
your eyes are brimming with love and compassion ,
and yet your forehead is shining with anger .
o mother , what a form i behold before me !!""

This expression of durga as mother india enabled the nationalist leaders to stick to their noble cause and ideals. Somwhere in 1930′s mahatma gandhi founded the bharatmata temple in varanasi. Even today this thought remains strong in the country. Quite unknowingly a predominantly shakta philosophy has found its way into and secured a firm foundation in the nationalist sentiments of modern India.

:: चीनी साहित्य में राम कथा ::

चीनी साहित्य राम कथा पर आधारित कोई मौलिक रचना नहीं हैं। बौद्ध धर्म ग्रंथ त्रिपिटक के चीनी संस्करण में रामायण से संबद्ध दो रचनाएँ मिलती हैं। 'अनामकं जातकम्' और 'दशरथ कथानम्'। फादर कामिल लुल्के के अनुसार तीसरी शताब्दी ईस्वी में 'अनामकं जातकम्' का कांग-सेंग-हुई द्वारा चीनी भाषा में अनुवाद हुआ था जिसका मूल भारतीय पाठ अप्राप्य है। चीनी अनुवाद लियेऊ-तुत्सी-किंग नामक पुस्तक में सुरक्षित है।

'अनामकं जातकम्' में किसी पात्र का नामोल्लेख नहीं हुआ है, किंतु कथा के रचनात्मक स्वरुप से ज्ञात होता है कि यह रामायण पर आधारित है, क्योंकि इसमें राम वन गमन, सीता हरण, सुग्रीव मैत्री, सेतुबंधष लंका विजय आदि प्रमुख घटनाओं का स्पष्ट संकेत मिलता है। नायिका विहीन 'अनामकं जातकम्', जानकी हरण, वालि वध, लंका दहन, सेतुबंध, रावण वध आदि प्रमुख घटनाओं के अभाव के बावजूद वाल्मीकि रामायण के निकट जान पड़ता है। अहिंसा की प्रमुखता के कारण चीनी राम कथाओं पर बौद्ध धर्म का प्रभाव स्पष्ट रुप से परिलक्षित होता है।

'दशरथ कथानम्' के अनुसार राजा दशरथ जंबू द्वीप के सम्राट थे। राजा की प्रधान रानी के पुत्र का नाम लोमो (राम)। दूसरी रानी के पुत्र का नाम लो-मन (लक्ष्मण) था। राजकुमार लोमो में ना-लो-येन (नारायण) का बल और पराक्रम था। उनमें 'सेन' और 'रा' नामक अलौकिक शक्ति थी तीसरी रानी के पुत्र का ना पो-लो-रो (भरत) और चौथी रानी के पुत्र का नाम शत्रुघ्न था।
राजा तीसरी रानी पर आसक्त थे। वे उसकी इच्छापूर्ति हेतु सर्व न्योछावर करने की बात करते थे। रानी ने उनके वचन को धरोहर के रुप में रख छोड़ा था। कालांतर में राजा बीमार हो गये। उन्होंने राजकुमार लोमो को राजा बना दिया। उनके बालों को रेशम की डोरी से बांधा गया और सिर पर दिव्य मुकुट पहना दिया गया। छोटी रानी को लोमो का राजा बनना रास नहीं आया। राजा के कुछ स्वस्थ होने पर उसने पूर्व में दिये गये वचन के अनुसार अपने पुत्र पो-लो-रो को राजा बनाने के लिए कहा। राजा को अपने ज्येष्ठ पुत्र पर पूरा भरोसा था। उन्होंने उसे अपदस्थ कर पो-लो-रो को राजा बना दिया।

लोमो के अनुज ने उनसे इसका विरोध करने के लिए कहा, क्योंकि उनके पास 'सेन' और 'रा' नामक अलौकिक शक्ति थी, किंतु उन्होंने उत्तर दिया कि आज्ञाकारी पुत्र को पिता की इच्छा के प्रतिकूल आचरण नहीं करना चाहिए। छोटी माता को मेरे पूज्य पिता का स्नेह प्राप्त है। इसलिए वही सच्ची माता हैं। रामानुज चुप हो गये। पिता के आदेशानुसार वे दोनों बारह वर्षों के लिए वन चले गये।
राजा का स्वर्गवास हो गया। उस समय पो-लो-रो दूसरे देश में थे। उन्हें स्वदेश बुलाया गया और राजा बना दिया गया, किंतु परंपरा के प्रतिकूल आग्रज को अपदस्थ कर उन्हें राजा बनाया गया था। इसलिए उनके मन में अपनी माता के प्रति घृणा उत्पन्न हो गयी। वे सेना के साथ अपने अग्रज से मिलने पहाड़ परगये। लो-मन के मन में संदेह हुआ, किंतु लोमो के मन में किसी प्रकार का भ्रम उत्पन्न नहीं हुआ। उन्होंने पो-लो-रो से सेना के साथ आने का कारण पूछा,तो उसने बताया कि मार्ग में लुटेरों से बचने के लिए उसने ऐसा किया। उसने अपने अग्रज से स्वदेश लौटकर राज्य का शासन संभालने के लिए बार-बार अनुरोध किया, किंतु लोमो ने पिता की आज्ञा का उल्लंघन करना उचित नहीं समझा। अंतत: पो-लो-रो अपने अग्रज की चरण पादुका लेकर घर लौट गये और उन्हें राज सिंहासन पर स्थापित कर दिया।
पो-लो-रो चरण पादुका की पूजा करते थे और उससे आदेश लेकर शासन संचालन करते थे। लोमो को मालूम हो गया था कि पो-लो-रो उनकी चरण पादुका को आग्रज की तरह सम्मान देते हैं। इसलिए समय पूरा होने पर वे घर लौट गये। राजा का पद ग्रहण करने से इन्कार करने पर पो-लो-रो ने उन्हें यह कहकर निरुत्तर कर दिया कि परंपरानुसार ज्येष्ठ पुत्र ही राज सिंहासन का उत्तराधिकारी होता है। परंपरा भंग करना उचित नहीं है। लोमो राजा बने। देश धन-धान्य से परिपूर्ण हो गया। कोई किसी रोग से पीड़ित नहीं रहा। जंबू द्वीप के लोगों की सुख-समृद्धि पहले से दस  गुनी हो गयी

Hinduism Symbols-- What they actually mean??

In Hinduism much importance is given to the symbols than most other religions. The Hindu symbols range from the mark one puts on the forehead to the idols of the deities that get worshipped by the ardent Hindu devotees. Each one has its own significance.

Why do Hindus regard symbols so much ??

Hinduism at its core maintains that there is one God and many see It in different ways (Ekam sad viprAH bahuta vadanti). This God is Formless and is beyond the limitations of the comprehension. This is the basis on which many of the great sages meditate on this Supreme Being That is beyond any contours. So why are so many forms ? The God in Its natural form being very difficult to comprehend, leave alone loving that God and worshiping with devotion, the simple minds would certainly need a way through which they could worship the Boundless God in a fairly simplified manner. But at the same time it should not contradict the basis that the God is beyond forms in any way. Hinduism maintains that because of the abundant Grace of the God, It revealed Itself in the Holy symbols for the humans and other creatures to worship. These symbols are easy to comprehend for the minds of the normal human beings, but at the same time they are just symbols than objects themselves, which means that they symbolically indicate the God, Which is beyond the exploration of knowledge. Such symbols are the praNava (aum) which is held in high esteem by all sects of Hindus and the glorious shiva lingam  (meaning symbol of Shiva, the God) that is considered the most sacred symbol of worship for the Shaivites. The intention is that the Formless Supreme could be achieved by simpler means of these formless-forms - the symbols.

In a way these Hindu symbols are abstract representation of the God. These are quite closer to the ideal as they form a bridge between the Formless one and the mind that expects a form. The simpler minds benefit better if the God could be correlated with the day to day lives they interact with. The God certainly is Graceful to the upliftment of the creatures, It took various forms in various occasions blessing either in valorous or joyful or yogic postures. There are numerous of these forms that Hindus worship in their temples, which are built in a gigantic manner with the patronage of various emperors that stand as the glorious homes of art and architecture. The mAhEshvara mUrthams  are good examples of such forms of God.

In fact the Hindus wear various marks on their forehead that also have spiritual significance. For example the ash that the Shaivites wear represents the ash that the Supreme Flame - Lord Shiva has smeared on Him always. The same way the shrIchUrNa and the tilak have their significance and indications. In essence Hindus achieve the Supreme Things, by simple ways following the symbols.


Oh God, Your Feet is beyond the worlds beneath 
and Your Crown beyond the universes above ! 
You are Immeasurable, Unexplorable, Unimaginable ! 
But how simple You have come as a shivalinga in my hand !! 

- basavaNNa