Franklin’s Dragon and Allah’s Hellfire

Allah have given a horrible description of Hell, but neither Allah nor Muhammad could provide a single evidence of the existence of Hell and its fire. They contradicted each other on many points, which mean either Allah or Muhammad or both of them were damn liars.

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[“As children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror”. ---- Lucretius, On the nature of things (ca. 60 BC)]

Famous psychologist Richard Franklin (cited Sagan, 1997, p. 171) while following a group therapy approach, narrated a very interesting fictitious conversation as below:

Suppose I seriously make an assertion to you, “A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage”.

“Show me”, you say. I lead you to my garage. You look inside and see a ladder, empty paint cans, an old tricycle but no dragon. “Where is the dragon?” you ask. “Oh, that horrible creature is right here”. I reply, waving vaguely and horror in my eyes, “I forgot to mention that it’s an invisible dragon and its fire is also invisible”. You propose spreading flour on the floor of the garage to capture the dragon’s footprints.

“Good idea”, I say, “but this dragon floats in the air.”

“Then we can use an infrared sensor to detect the invisible fire”, you proposed.

“Good idea, but the invisible fire is also heatless”, I replied.

“Then why not spray-paint the dragon and make it visible”? you ask.

“Good idea, except this creature is a ghostly dragon and the paint would not stick”, I again replied back.

“Well, in that case, let me enter the garage and see if it bites me and if I feel the pain, I will know that something is there”, you decided.

“Good idea, but I forgot to tell you, its bite is also painless and even if it eats you, you will not realize that you are eaten and obviously you will look same as before”, another ready explanation comes from me.

Utterly confused!!!

The above conversation has no end, because it can be extended to any length. No matter how scientifically and logically you try to approach, always I have a ‘special’ explanation of why it would not work. But, by no means, I will come out of the idea that the dragon does exist. If you cannot detect, it is your fault, but at any cost the dragon exists.

This dragon story exactly reflects the Muslim’s idea of ‘Jahannam’, the Islamic Hell.

According to Islam, Hell is a real place, which Allah has created as a torture chamber for the disbelievers where they will burn forever in fire, because they are vilest of creatures (Q 98.1-8). Hellfire is a woeful punishment... (Q 33.8); … garments of fire, scalding water will be poured upon heads, melting skins and that which is in the bellies, will be tortured with hooked rods of iron, whenever they try to escape from Hell, they will be dragged, and will be told: 'Taste the torment of the conflagration' (Q: 22.19-22); …showered with water as hot as molten brass, which will scald their faces, evil shall be their drink, dismal their resting-place (Q: 18.29); punishment will never be lightened, and they shall be speechless with despair (Q: 43.74-75); … seized by their forelocks and their feet (Q: 55.41); … chains, fetters and a blazing (Fire) (Q: 76.4, Q: 73.12); choking food and a painful punishment (Q: 73.13); roast them in Hell (Q: 69.31); neither shade nor shelter from the flames (Q: 77.31); you and your idols shall be the fuel of Hell (Q: 21.98); food is Zakkum tree and foul pus (Q: 44.43, Q: 69.36).

What a sick and disgusting imagination, and a distortion of reality! The Muslims do not need to be better human being in terms of character or consciousness. All they have to do is to recite the Kalima (incantation): "there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet." In doing so, all Muslims—whether a terrorist, murderer, rapist, cheat, thug, pickpocket or a pimp—will go to Paradise, because they follow Islam. The ‘People of the book’, Idolaters and Atheists are destined to land in Hell for eternal suffering, no matter how pious and God-fearing they may have been. Their good thoughts, good actions or piety are of no value.

Psychologists say that the most effective way of securing dominance is by arousing someone's fear. Lovecraft’s (1973, p. 51) famously quoted line — "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" —is only the beginning of it. Lovecraft continues: “These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the generousness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tales as a literary form.”

The second one is favor. Whatever man does, he does out of fear or to gain favor. Hence these two factors severely influence judgment. Muhammad very skillfully exploited man's psychological mechanism, which consists of both of these two: fear and favor.

Franklin’s dragon and Allah’s Hellfire; in both cases the fear factor works and offsets the scale of commonsense of people. Though Allah had given horrible description of Hell, but neither Allah nor Muhammad could provide a single evidence of the existence of Hell and its fire. They contradicted each other on many points, which mean either Allah or Muhammad or both of them were damn liars. In spite of this, like the mental patient in the dragon story, Muslims are always one step ahead of their opponents to give a special explanation of why Hellfire is real. But the clarifications only raise further questions. If they apply a little logic and commonsense, they will be able to realize that Hellfire theory is pure absurd. It relies upon ignorance and thrives on it. The deeper one digs, the more obvious the deception becomes. If Muslims learn to apply a little logic, they will see much absurdities in the Hellfire theory same as the dragon story. But regretfully, skepticism and rational enquiry are practically nonexistent in Islam.

Let us expose various contradictions and absurdities bit by bit. First of all, according to Muhammad people are sent to Hell for not accepting Islam. This is unethical. Even if we force-believe this attitude of Allah, then also we are not sure which sect of Islam will escape Hellfire because every sect of Islam believes that they are following the real Islam. There are hundreds of sects and sub-sects in Islam. Different schools of thought offer different explanations as to what qualifies one as a believer. So who is destined to Hellfire?

Orthodox Sunni Muslims strongly believe that they will escape Hellfire. Teachers of Sunni law have argued that "Islam" means Sunni Islam only, and sects such as Shia, Ahmedi, Sufi etc, will also be sent to Hell. In trying to explain why all the other sects are displeasing to Allah, Sunnis offer the following verse from the Qur'an:

“Of those who split up their religion and became schismatics, each sect exulting in its tenets.” (Q 30.32)

Sunnis make up nearly 90% of all Muslims. Now, if we assume that only Sunnis can escape Hellfire, we are making a mistake, because it leads to another question. According to Bukhari:

• “I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, ‘From my followers there will be a crowd of 70,000 in number who will enter Paradise whose faces will glitter as the moon.’” (Bukhari: 8.76.550)
• “Verily! 70,000 of my followers will enter Paradise altogether; so that the first and the last amongst them will enter at the same time.” (Bukhari: 4.54.410).

Since there is no other place beyond Paradise and Hell, the billion plus Muslims will burn into Hellfire except those lucky 70,000 Muslims. Now the next question is; how to identify these 70,000 people? Tabari recorded,

“I asked the Messenger of Allah how many prophets there were. He replied, ‘124,000’.” (Tabari: I. 323).

Logically, all the Prophets of Allah had first preference to enter Paradise. It means there is no vacancy in Paradise. Not only this, already 54,000 Prophets had been turned away. So, all the present, past and future Muslims will go to Hell along with the infidels, despite their practicing of Islam. The long list of confusions starts from here.

Bukhari wrote:

“Every created soul has his place written for him either in Paradise or in the Hell Fire (Bukhari 6.60.473).

But according to Qur’an:

“And ye shall be sorted out into three classes” (Q 56.7)

So, where will the third group of people go? No one knows.

Hell and Hellfire were brought into existence by Muhammad’s hallucination and weird imagination. He was a malignant Narcissist. When he wanted to lure the Jews and Christians in Islam, he revealed the following verses, according to which the Jews and Christians can also escape Hellfire.

• “Those who believe (in the Qur'an), those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Sabians and the Christians, - any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, - on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.” (Q: 5.69)
• “Those who believe in the Qur’an...and the Christians...shall have their reward with their
• Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor they shall grieve” (Q: 2.62)

But the clever Jews and Christians paid little attention to Muhammad realizing that he was an imposter. It made Muhammad frustrated and Allah revealed the following verses, according to which no infidel can escape Hellfire.

• “And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the hereafter he will be one of the losers”. (Q: 3.85)
• “Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell Fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures” (Q: 98.6).
• “But those who reject Islam and are disbelievers, denying our Signs and Revelations, they shall be the owners of the Hell Fire.” (Q: 5.86)
• "O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Whoever joins other gods with Allah-Allah will forbid him the Paradise and the Fire will be his abode” (Q: 5.72).

The descriptions of Hellfire are so vivid that Muslims are mentally paralyzed at the very thought of it. Like the mental patient of the fictitious dragon story, they cannot see the deception of Muhammad. Whenever an analytical discussion is made about Islam, Muslims quickly proclaim scientific miracles in Qur’an, but what they talk is not science but pseudo-science. Let us analyze following two quotes.

• “Fever is from the heat of the Hell Fire; so cool it with water.’” (Bukhari 4.54.484)
• “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘If it is very hot, the severity of the heat is from the raging of the Hell Fire.’” (Bukhari 1.10.510)

If a person finds science in the above quotes, then he will find enough science in Voodoo also.

Following quotes are even more ridiculous. According to these, the ‘Paradise’ and ‘Hell’ are living creatures and they can argue with each other.

1. “The Prophet explained, ‘Paradise and Hell argued…. Allah said to the Hell Fire, ‘You are my (means of) punishment by which I torment whoever I wish of my slaves’.” (Bukhari 6.60.373)
2. “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘The Hell Fire complained to its Lord saying, “O my Lord! My different parts are eating each other up.” So, He allowed it to take two breaths, one in winter, the other in summer. This is the reason for the severe heat and bitter cold you find in weather.’” (Bukhari 4.54.482)

If Hellfire is a living creature, then how different parts of the same body can eat each other? Can a cannibal eat himself? Secondly, how Hellfire can be the reason of both ‘severe heat’ and ‘bitter cold’? Bukhari recorded:

“The Prophet said, ‘The Hell Fire is 69 times hotter than ordinary worldly fires’” (Bukhari 4.54.487).

The fire which is 69 times hotter than ordinary fire cannot produce bitter cold. Science does not go along with blind faith but pseudo-science does.

Is Hellfire already started or is it a futuristic event? Even Allah does not know. According to Bukhari, Hellfire is already started.

“The Prophet said: ‘I was shown the Hell Fire and the majority of its dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful.’ (Bukhari 1.22.28)

But according to Qur’an it is not yet started.

• “When the disastrous calamity comes; and Hell Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, then for him who rebelled, Hell Fire will be his home.” (Q 79.34)
• When the event befalleth, there is no denying that it will befall, abasing (some), exalting (others) (Q 56.1-3)
• “And Hell is brought near that day; on that day man will remember, but how will the remembrance (then avail him)”? (Q 89.23)

If it is a futuristic event, how Muhammad saw the Hellfire? If it is already started, then above verses are false. Whom to believe: Allah or Muhammad?

Allah definitely needs tons of fuel to keep the Hellfire on. According to Qur’an; the stones, Pagan Gods and stubborn unbelievers make the fuel of Hell.

• “O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones...” (Q: 66.6)
• “…then fear the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the disbelievers.” (Q: 2.24)
• “Indeed, you (disbelievers) and what you worship other than God are the firewood of Hell. Had these (false deities) been (actual) gods, they would not have come to it, but all are eternal therein.” (Q: 21.98-99)

All the verses talking about the fuel of Hellfire are illogical. The bodies of the disbelievers will only offer a given and finite amount of fuel for fire. Eventually there will be nothing left to burn. This is same for all the deities.

Secondly; all leaving creatures will ultimately leave their bodies on the earth at the time of death. It is the "soul" that will either enter Hell or Paradise not the body. Since the soul is without body, it is obviously without cells, without neural receptors, and therefore without pain.

“I will drive him into Hellfire … it lets nothing remain and leaves nothing (unburned), altering the skins.” (Q: 74.26-29)

The above verse is ridiculous. It contradicts itself. It says the Hellfire leaves nothing unburned and at the same time it also says that the Hellfire alters the skin. If nothing is left there is no question of alteration of skin.

In the following verses Allah’s stupidity takes one step further. According to Qur’an, souls have replaceable skin and belly.

• “… every time their skins are roasted through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment.” (Q 4.56)
• “… poured upon their heads will be scalding water by which is melted that within their bellies and (their) skins.” (Q 22.19-20)

Muslim scholars have already noticed this inconsistency in Hellfire theory. They came out with a wonderful logic. According to them, Hellfire consists of smokeless fire that "burns, but does not consume" (Ahmad, 2006, p.351). But how a fire can burn without fuel? Secondly, if the fire does not consume one's flesh, there is no pain. Pain is caused by neural receptors in the brain alerting the living creature to cells being destroyed. If the fire does not consume one's flesh, no cells are destroyed, and thus there is no pain. Dead bodies do not feel pain because the brain is dead. This is what science says.

Eternal flames cannot be a true punishment to be feared. If the fire is never-ending, there is enough time to develop a higher tolerance of pain. It is a fact that human beings can reach a mental state where they do not feel pain. As example, the Buddhist monks in Vietnam can set themselves on fire without showing any reaction while burning to death (Batchelor, 1994, p. 354). They have nothing to fear from Hellfire.

Allah is so revengeful that He has arranged chains, yokes, and fetters in his Hell for the disbelievers, who will be tied up with chains and dragged with yokes on their necks,

• “… for the rejecters We have prepared iron chains, yokes, and a blazing Fire.” (Q 76.4)
• “With us are fetters (to bind them) …” (Q 73.12)
• “We will put yokes on the necks of the unbelievers.” (Q 34.33)
• “When yokes will be put round their necks and the chains, they will be dragged along.” (Q 40.71)
• “… make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits.” (Q 69.32)
• But the above verses lead to another doubt. Allah says that the Hellfire “lets nothing remain and leaves nothing (unburned)… (Q 74.26-29)”. If nothing remains, then the chains, yokes, and fetters are of what use?

Next confusion is about the food of the Hell. According to Qur’an the disbelievers will eat from the obnoxious tree of Zakkum which will churn like boiling oil causing immense suffering. They have nothing else to drink except boiling hot water which will cause them further suffering.

• “No food will there be for them except from a bitter, thorny plant which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.” (Q 88.6-7)
• “Indeed, the tree of zaqqum is food for the sinful, like murky oil, it boils within bellies, like the boiling of scalding water.” (Q 44.43-46)

But following verses contradict above verses. The disbelievers will eat festering puss that oozes out of their decaying skin and burnt flesh.

• “So no friend has he here this Day, nor has he any food except filth from the washing of wounds which none do eat but those in sin.” (Q 69.35-37)
• “This – so let them taste it – is scalding water and (foul) purulence. And other (punishments) of its type (in various) kinds.” (Q 38.57-58)
• “A boiling fluid and fluid dark, murky, intensely cold.” (Q 38.57)

Few doubts are immediately raised. The first one obviously is how Qur’anic verses are contradicting each other. Secondly, how a Zakkum tree can grow in Hell or boiling water can be available to drink, whose fire is 69 times hotter than normal fire? Tree cannot grow in fire and water will instantly vaporize in such an extreme hot atmosphere. Third; if the Hellfire leaves nothing unburned, then how festering puss can ooze out of decaying skin?

Utterly confused!!!

Franklin’s dragon and Allah’s Hellfire -- both are based on unshakable blind belief. What is the difference between a dragon that is invisible, floating, leaves no foot-print, emits heatless fire, cause painless bite and a dragon which does not exist? There is no way you can disprove my argument, but at the same time you cannot prove me false and shake my belief. My ‘sincere belief and fear’ is the only proof of the existence of the dragon.

Then actually what is going on in my mind?

First of all, I am asking you to take my sincerity as an authentic proof. Then I am asking you to ‘believe’ me unquestionably even if logic, commonsense and science are defied. This is the strength of the blind belief. The absence of evidence cannot be taken as the evidence of the absence of the dragon.

Muhammad described the Hell fire so vividly that it really does not matter to the Muslims whether these are true or false. They will give hundred explanations to make the Hellfire theory ‘meaningful’ to them. This is the strange mindset of Muslims. They invent their own ‘truth’ to renew their faith in Islam. They prefer to live under constant fear of Allah’s punishment and they are capable of spending their whole life in this delusion. As Butler (cited Sagan, 1997, p. 136) wrote,:

"A credulous mind… finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such”.

Islam is a spiritual tyranny. A real God shall never resort to sex, violence and torture to gain followers. It is an evil ploy of Muhammad. The tempting description of Paradise and painful description of Hell had only one reason behind it - to secure more converts to his faith. Little thoughts are required to understand that Muhammad was playing the role of God in fabricating the Qur’anic verses. Allah was Muhammad’s ‘instrument’ to fulfill his self-serving narcissistic desires. Following quote from the Hadith makes everything clear.

• “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Whoever obeys me will enter Paradise, and whoever disobeys me will not enter it’” (Bukhari 9.92.384)
• " ... If you love Allah, and follow me (Muhammad), God will love you, and forgive you your sins." (Q 3. 25)

Allah is obliged to throw a person in Hell even if he is sincerely devoted of Him but does not believe in Muhammad’s Prophetic claim. So we can see how helpless the God of Islam is. Such a weak God does not exist. Neither he has the power to throw the non-Muslims in Hell nor can he reward anyone with Paradise. Hellfire theory was a useful tool for Muhammad to use the fear factor for propagating his religion. There are 146 references to Hell in the Qur’an. Out of this, 94% of the reasons for being in Hell are for the intellectual sin of disagreeing with Muhammad, an unpardonable crime (Glazov & Warner, 2007). The common Muslim masses are just stupefied by this Hellfire theory. Their ethical and logical faculties are completely subdued.

This absurd theory is the main support of Islam for domination. It worked wonder for Muhammad by enriching and empowering him during his lifetime. Today it works wonder for the Imams, Mullahs and tyrants alike. Islam was created for one Malignant Narcissist’s quest for narcissistic attention. It is utter foolishness to search for spirituality in Islam. Islam is not just a false belief but also a mental disorder that reduces sane people into insane people. That’s why they cannot see the dishonesty of their Prophet.

References

1. Sagan, Carl (1997) The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Ballantine Books. Random House Inc. USA.
2. Lovecraft, H. P (1973) Supernatural horror in literature. Dover Publications, Inc. NY.
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4. Batchelor, Stephen (1994) The awakening of the west: the encounter of Buddhism and Western culture. Parallax Press. California
5. Glazov, Jamie, Warner (2007) The Study of Political Islam. An interview of Bill Warner published on February 05, 2007. FrontPageMagazine.com. (accessed Apr. 19 / 2010)

Taqiyyah Tacticians

Michael Moore to President Ahmadinejad, some prominent taqiyyah tacticians of today...

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the most controversial President of Iran. He has been criticized domestically for his economic lapses and disregard for human rights. His election to a second term in 2009 was widely rigged, which caused widespread protests domestically, and drew significant international criticism; the opposition parties, section of the traditional clerical circle and influential Iranian politicians questioned the legitimacy of his presidency. He is an outspoken critic of the United States, Israel, and United Kingdom. He abides by Iran's long-standing policy of refusal to recognize Israel as a legitimate nation or as representative of the region's population, but actively seeks Israel's destruction.

On 23 Sep. 2010, President Ahmadinejad again made offensive comments at the United Nations. While addressing the General Assembly, Ahmadinejad explained the reason for 9/11 attack by saying, “that some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime." "...The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view,” he claimed. He also asked for the formation of an independent fact-finding body to investigate the 9/11 attacks.

The reader may recall that in the past, Ahmadinejad called 9/11 as a conspiracy by the US and Israel, and accused both Israel and the U.S. for the attacks on 9/11. And his conspiracy theory is supported many Muslims around the world. According to a Pew Global survey, over half of the British Muslims and a fifth of U.S. Muslims believe in Ahmadinejad's conspiracy theory of a US-Israeli hand behind the 9/11 attacks.

It should be noted here that Islam cannot survive without telling lies; hence Muslim leaders don't hesitate to say even the most outrageous lies. Sometimes, it becomes difficult for ordinary non-Muslims to fathom how leaders and head of nations of the Muslim world can tell such blatant lies loudly and repeatedly.

Michael Moore Dedicates Himself for the Cause of Islam

Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director of many movies and to name of the few are Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: and also many documentaries. A Love Story, four of the top nine highest-grossing documentaries of all time.^[3] In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, documenting his personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections.^[4] He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth.

Born in Flint and raised in Davison, Michigan, Moore was brought up as a Roman Catholic and had even intended to join the seminary. Now a self-described liberal, Moore has criticized globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American healthcare system in his written and cinematic works.

Moore is a noted sympathizer of Muslims. In a recent interview with CNN, self-loathing Michael Moore, he not only supported the proposed building of a controversial mosque near the Ground Zero, he proposed it be built on the Ground Zero itself. He boldly opined, “I am opposed to the building of the “mosque” two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on Ground Zero.”

In this connection, the reader may recall that “Muslim immigrants of America led by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf planned to build a mosque along with a Muslim cultural center near Ground Zero. Initially the project was named Cordova Islamic center. Cordova being a name of a city in Spain, the name has a historic significance. In the middle ages, Cordova was the center of Islamic culture and the seat of an Islamic Caliphate (Muslim Ruler). Under the rule of the Caliphate, all non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians were subjugated to Islam.”(Wikipedia Encl)

The facts about Islam blog writes:

When the little secret was exposed, Imam Rauf changed the name of the project to Park51. Michael Moore not only wants the proposed mosque be built near the Ground Zero, he is also actively raising money for the project. According to his website, he already has raised $50,000, which he will donate to Imam Rouf. (ibid).

On the day of 9/11 this year, Moore appealed to his supporters to donate for the cause and promised to match up to $10,000. However, he was able to raise 5 times more than originally planned. The names of the contributors are unknown. They can either be enthusiastic Muslims or Dhimnis like Moore.

Mike Ghouse

Mike Ghouse is an Indian-born Muslim. He has changed his original Muslim name (probably from Muhammad to Mike), perhaps to camouflage his Islamic identity. In fact, he was born and raised in Yelahanka, a suburb of Bangalore, India. His father M. Abdul Rahman was India's freedom fighter and the Mayor of the Town of Yelahanka (1952-53). And his Mother’s name was Khairun Nisa.

Many authors inform us that both his father and mother were pluralists, and their influence made Mike a pluralist, too. Some authors even say that his father used to recite pluralistic verses of the Koran. But those, who have read the Koran and know a little about Islam, will refuse to accept such a notion. In fact, there is not even a single verse in the Quran that may be called pluralist. Basically, Koran is a book of hatred that instructs Muslims to kill the entire polytheistic population on the earth and to subjugate the monotheists like Jews and Christians in order to bring the whole world under the banner of Islam. So the claim that his father and mother were pluralistic Muslims is a blatant lie; and Mike Ghouse, in propagating these stories, is lying as part of sacred Islamic ploy of taqiyyah.

Mike Ghouse once said, "My kids Jeff and Mina (Jazzie) have excited me with their fresh perspectives on life and God. All my inspirers have frequently helped me see the world from another point of view, i.e., respecting all creation and "live and let live" point of view.” Here Ghouse played another taqiyya. Allah, the God of his faith, Islam, does not believe in the notion “Live and let live.” In so many verses of the Islamic holy book Koran, Allah says: Islam is the only religion Allah approves; in other words: Let Muslims live and all others perish.

Elsewhere Ghouse says: “My intuitive pluralism and ZERO prejudice has it's origins in Islam, Hinduism, Jainism and Christianity, many consider me to be a Baha'i. I was pleased to hear someone called me a Jew as well, and I have been told by people of different faiths that I belong to them. Thanks to my father for unlocking me from a singular cell and opening multiple windows of knowledge for me."

This comment is another sample of his use of taqiyya and a terrible lie. His intuitive pluralism and ZERO prejudice might have come from Hinduism, Jainism or Buddhism or from any other religions originated in INDIA, but certainly not from Islam.

On another occasion, he said: "A good Muslim is a good Hindu, is a good Christian, is a good Jew, and is a good human being."

This is another piece of his taqiyyah. A good and pious Muslim is a terribly dangerous person for the people of other faiths. The Koran says:

• But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, an seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war; but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practice regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. (Quran 9:5)
• Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Messenger have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection. (Quran 9:29)
• you who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness; and know that Allah is with those who guard. (Quran 9:123)

So, it is not difficult to understand that, if a Muslim becomes very pious and begins to do what Allah has commanded him to do in the Koran, what a dangerous person he/she would become for non-Muslims.

Many are convinced that Ghouse grew up enjoying and celebrating Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Parsee and Christian Festivals. He is grateful to his parents for the exposure he was given. "My family has come to believe that all festivals are meant to celebrate and share the joy with the people you know," writes Ghouse. Years later he produced a Radio show, called "Festivals of the World", where the essence and significance of every festival was shared on Saturdays.

Readers should understand that this is not a new technique. Centuries ago, particularly during the Muslim period of Indian history, Sufi saints used to do similar things, as the first step to convert the Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and others to Islam. And those converts later waged Jihad against their coreligionists of the yesteryear. So, it is not difficult to understand that Mike Ghouse (and his father and mother) is using same taqiyyah of converting people to Islam.

Mike Ghouse tells us that he draws inspiration from the lives of great men like Prophet Mohammad, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Mother Theresa, Gautama Buddha, Krishna, Guru Nanak, Martin Luther King Jr., father Abdul Rahman, mother Khairun Nisa and so on. In this context, one should know that some Sufi saints in the past went to the extreme of even worshipping Hindu gods and goddesses to fool the Hindus and to draw them to Islam, who eventually became haters of the Hindus and their faith.

Commonality of Nazism with Islam and Sharia

In the early 1930’s the 'free world' made the mistake of dismissing Hitler’s words as mere threats and ravings. Will the West make the same mistake when continually confronted with Islamic terror?

Since the atrocities committed on 9/11/01 by Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists in the name of Islam, people in the U.S. and West have debated whether Islam is “a religion of peace” or more of an all-encompassing totalitarian ideology cloaked in religious garb. Unfortunately, it appears that the Qur’an, Shariah, and the Islamic terrorist attacks of the last thirty years, indicate that Islam is indeed a totalitarian ideology engaged in an effort of world-wide conquest much like Nazism. The major difference being that Nazism was based on racial affiliation while Islam is based on religious affiliation.

The word “Islam” – contrary to popular belief – means “submission” and not “peace.” When Islam was founded by Muhammad ibn Abdallah in the 7th century, it conquered the Arabian Peninsula through bloody wars and conquests against fellow Arabs, and Jewish tribes. After the consolidation of Islam in Arabia, the Arabs quickly moved out to conquer the Persian and Byzantine empires, as well as parts of India, and subsequently Spain. All was done under the sword or through discrimination. It was not done by peacefully proselytizing the indigenous populations.

A Brief Overview of Shariah

The holy book of Islam – the Qur’an – contains laws and commandments for the believing Muslim. It is also a book that is replete with references to war, conquest, and the treatment of non-Muslims. From the Qur’an (primarily), and the Sunnah and Hadith (secondarily) came - amongst other principles - the exegesis (tafsir) and jurisprudence (fiqh) of how the laws, sayings, customs, and traditions of Muhammad were to be interpreted. Thus was born Shariah (meaning the “path”). Shariah is not a simple concept to explain (even by and for Muslims), but it can simply be equated with “Islamic law.”

Shariah dictates every aspect of a Muslim’s life – both private and public. It is a total system that not only encompasses the individual, but how the government should rule as well. Islam is therefore a religio-political entity and ideally guided by a caliph (“successor”) to Muhammad. However, the Caliph came to be something of a “supreme leader” as both the head of government and the head of religion. In short, there is no separation of “mosque and state” in an ideal Islamic setting.

While different schools of Shariah exist with various interpretations of the Qur’an, Sunnah, and Hadith, all see Islam and Muslims as superior to every other religion, and view non-Muslims as “dhimmi” (plural, “dhimma”) who are regarded as inferior to Muslims under Islamic law. It is the dhimma (namely Jews, Christians, and other monotheistic religions) who must pay the jizya and kharaj (poll and land taxes) because they do not recognize the Qur’an. They must also wear distinctive clothing (usually yellow for Jews, and blue for Christians.)

The Nazi-Islamic Alliance

During the 1930’s Muslims of all different nationalities (most notably Arabs and Persians) were very sympathetic to Adolph Hitler and Nazism. The reverse was also true. Hitler and Heinrich Himmler only had respectful things to say of Islam, and Hitler himself had said that it would have been better if Germany had possessed the “Mohammedan religion” rather than the “meekness and flabbiness” of Christianity.

At the same time, in the Arab world, Nazi-like movements began to spring up. There were the “Nazi Scouts” of Arab youth in British mandated Palestine (based on the Hitler Youth) the “Green Shirts” of Egypt, and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Even the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt was influenced by the Nazis in its political ideology, and many fleeing Nazis were warmly welcomed in Arab countries after World War II.

But Nazi ideology also had an effect in non-Arab Muslim countries, such as Iran. In 1935, Persia was renamed Iran (Land of the Aryans) and Reza Shah Pahlavi, the ruler of Persia/Iran had an open admiration for Hitler. There was also an Iranian Nazi party known as SUMKA with its own Nazi-like symbol. However, fears among the allies were so great that the British had Reza Shah deposed because of perceived German influence in Iran. Indeed, Churchill had at least on one occasion compared the Qur’an to Mein Kampf.

It was during this period, that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini sought out Adolph Hitler and other top Nazis in order to apply the Arab/Muslim “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” in the Middle East. Hitler and Himmler were very receptive, and with the help of the Mufti, Himmler raised two Muslim Waffen SS divisions; one from Bosnia (Handschar, meaning “scimitar”), and one from Albania. There were also lesser known Waffen SS divisions made up of Muslims from the Soviet Caucasus. Hitler promised Husseini that once the Germans penetrated through the Caucasus, the “hour of liberation” for the Arabs would come.

How could devout Muslims ally themselves so willingly with a basically pagan, racist ideology like that of Nazism? The answer is simple. Nazism, like Islam, is driven by a dictatorial totalitarian system with a “leader principle” that divides the world into the “superior” and “inferior.” One can easily substitute the terms “Fuhrer, “Aryan,” “Ubermensch,” and “Untermensch,” for “Caliph,” “Muslim,” “dhimmi,” and “kafir”. And there is also the concept of “jihad” in Islam which divides the world into “dar al-Islam” (house of Islam, where Muslims rule) and “dar al harb” (house of war, where “infidels” rule). And like Islam, which seeks the total Islamization of the world, Nazism also sought the total domination of the “Aryan” over the “non-Aryan” and the total extermination of the Jews. As previously alluded to, the wearing of yellow clothing was a Muslim invention, not a Nazi one. And there is also a genocidal Hadith that exists from the 7th century which speaks of a final war between the Muslims and Jews, resulting in the latter’s total annihilation. This Hadith is quite openly spoken of in the Muslim world to this day, as is the boasting of Muhammad’s “ethnic cleansing” through murder and expulsion of the Jews living in Arabia.

The Final Chapter?

The Muslim attacks of 9/11 should have woken up America and the West to what Islam is – and isn’t. Instead, the masses received from world leaders nothing but platitudes and compliments for Islam which George W. Bush constantly referred to as a “religion of peace.” And, of course, the words “Islam” and “terrorism” could never be mentioned in the same sentence.

Perhaps the real issue is not Shariah per se, but Islam and the Qur’an as a whole. While the world argues about “moderate” and “radical” Islam, fundamentalist Muslims plan the demise of the Western world and its Judeo-Christian concepts and values. Under the guise of taqiyyah (dissimulation), Muslims either seek the conversion of non-Muslims peacefully through “dawa” (the call), or more likely, through “jihad” (holy war). In the words of convicted failed Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun. Consider me only a first droplet of the blood that will follow me.”

In the early 1930’s the 'free world' made the mistake of dismissing Hitler’s words as mere threats and ravings. Will the West make the same mistake when continually confronted with Islamic terror?

What Is Islam?

Whereas democracy is defined as the rule of the people, by the people, for the people, Islam is defined as the rule of Allah, by Allah and his emissaries, for the pleasure of Allah. And when people, out of concern for political correctness or ignorance, describe Islam as a religion of peace, they are, at the very least, guilty of misrepresenting it.

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If only the masses of Muslims arise and carry out the orders of Allah, then we would have the promised paradise of Islam on earth as exemplified by such rules as that of the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, and of course the Shiite nirvana of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Islam is a comprehensive totalitarian form of slavery. It is the opposite of freedom. Its very name, Islam means submission or surrender. True to its name, Islam strives for nothing short of enslavement of the body of humanity as well as the bondage of its mind. This non-negotiable surrender to Islam requires the individual, as well as the society, to disenfranchise themselves of many of the fundamental and deeply cherished human rights.

Let’s have no doubt about it, Islam is political to the core. In Islam the mosque and State are one and the same—the mosque is the State and State is the Mosque. This arrangement goes back to the days of Muhammad himself. Islam is also radical in the extreme. Even the “moderate” Islam is radical in its beliefs as well as its deeds. Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire bound and well-deserve being maltreated compared to believers.

Islam is a creed of an ignorant people of a primitive age. It is fixated in time and place; it harbors the ambition of taking the 21st century world back 14 centuries and ruling it by its dogma of intolerance, injustice and death. Yet, Islam is not only an obsolete vestige of a defunct era, but itself is an infinitely fractured belief that can hardly put its own home in order.

Islam is not a religion, but a harmful thorn; thus, we must make laws to fight this unwanted thorn growing like mushrooms in our backyards. If Islam is not controlled, these mushrooms soon will blossom and become mushroom-clouds.

There is truly no such thing as a “moderate” Muslim. Moderate Muslims, or in other words “non-practicing Muslims,” are moderate by default only. Like millions of Iranians who were born into a barbaric faith, they did not choose. A faith was “inflicted” upon them by invaders of a foreign culture, a faith that forbids them to leave or revert to their pre-Islamic heritage and other Iranian religions. The Iranians remain Muslims in name only, yet, they are not Muslim at all by any standards.

Presently, with each passing day Islam is making inroads in the traditionally Muslim lands as well as much of the non-Muslim world where Islam is beginning to run deep roots and vie with the laws and cultures of its hosts. Muslims are taking advantage of the freedom that democracies grant. They use the same provisions of the law that are intended to protect and enhance liberty to subvert democracy and freedom.

Currently, America is faced with a formidable enemy in a Trojan horse called Islam. This imminent danger makes it imperative to revisit the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and make the necessary changes to legally defeat Islam’s subversion of the democratic system.

Below is a presentation of what this surrender to Islam entails and why it is imperative that all freedom-loving people arise and defeat the menace of Islamofascisim.

Amendment I of the Bill of Rights enshrines some of the most cherished ideals of freedom-loving people:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Islam considers itself the three branches of government. It enacts laws as it sees fit, adjudicates laws, and executes as it deems. Islam is anathema to the provisions of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and much more.

Islam proclaims itself as the only legitimate religion for the entire world, grudgingly granting minor recognition to Judaism and Christianity from whom it has liberally plagiarized much of its dogma. Jews and Christians are allowed to live under the rule of Islam as “dhimmis” and must pay a special religious tax of jizya. Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Baha’is, members of other religions, agnostics, or atheists are not even allowed to practice their belief or disbelief.

Islam actively suppresses and even prohibits the practice of other religions, including those of the “people of the book,” Jews and Christians. There is not a single church or synagogue in the cradle of Islam, Saudi Arabia, while thousands of mosques dot the tolerating and welcoming non-Muslim lands. Islamic countries that allow for Jewish and Christian places of worship subject these “people of the book” to numerous subtle and not-so-subtle forms of persecution. Muslims in non-Muslim lands proselytize relentlessly and convert others while any Muslim who leaves Islam is judged as apostate and automatically condemned to death.

Freedom of speech is just about non-existent in Islam. The word is Allah’s, his chosen divines such as Ayatollahs and Imams are the only ones who are to make pronouncements squarely based on Allah’s word, the Quran. Any expression that deviates in the least from the Quran, the Hadith or the edicts of Islamic high divines is heresy and severely punishable. Hence, stifling of free expression is the major mechanism by which the Islamic clergy retain power and prevent constructive change in Islamic societies.

Freedom of the press is completely alien to Islam, since a free press tends to express matters as it sees it, rather than as it is stated in the Quran. To Islam, the Quran is the press and the only press. There is no need for critical reporting, no need to present ideas that may conflict with the Quran, and no place for criticism of anything Islamic. The stranglehold of Islam on the individual and society is complete.

Peaceful assembly of the people is not allowed. The backward oppressive Islamic societies inflict great hardship on the citizenry and any assembly of the victims presents a threat to the suffocating rule. Islamic governments routinely prevent peaceful assemblies from taking place. Failing to do so, they unleash their hired thugs, the police and even the military against any assemblage no matter how peaceful and how legitimate is its grievance. The Islamic Republic of Iran which is vying with Saudi Arabia as the leader of true Islamic rule, routinely attacks any and all gatherings of its people, arrests them, imprisons them without due process, tortures them, and even executes them in secret dungeons. Journalists, academics, unionists, students, teachers, women rights groups who dare to petition the government for redress are labeled subversive and are severely punished.

Maltreatment of religious minorities and the non-religious is criminal indeed. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, for instance, the government has launched a systematic program of genocide against its largest religious minority—the Baha’is. The government is gathering a comprehensive list of Baha’is, their occupations, locations, properties and the like—action reminiscent of the Nazis. The government is banning Baha’i students from post high-school education unless they recant their religion, deprives them of engaging in numerous forms of occupations and trades, denies them from holding worship gatherings, and razes their holy places and much more. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not satisfied with its cruel treatment of the living Baha’is and has launched a war on their dead by bulldozing Baha’i cemeteries in several cities. Thus is the rule of fundamental Islamism that is awaiting the complacent and snoozing world.

Oppression of women in general is tragic indeed. Men are allowed to have as many as four wives simultaneously and as many concubines as they wish or can afford. Men can easily divorce their wives and automatically have the custody of the children, if they so decide. Women have subservient status to men in all areas of the law. Equality under the law has no meaning in Islam. Just one example of the dreadful way of treating women in Islam is a case of a Saudi woman who was gang-raped. The Islamic court sentenced the woman to a prison term and lashes for having committed the “sin” of riding in a car with a male who was not her relative. This is a standard form of Islamic Sharia justice—a savage heritage of barbarism that ruled the Arabian Peninsula a few centuries ago.

Islam has a solution for every “problem.” It deals with homosexuals, for instance, by hanging them en mass and gloating about it, even though homosexuality is just as prevalent in Islamic lands as anywhere else. Recently an Ayatollah made a ruling on homosexuals. He said that they should be tortured before they are hanged. In Islam, the rulings of high-ranking clergy constitute the law and are binding.

Not only does Islam not allow freedom of assembly and the press, it is intrusively restrictive in every aspect of a person’s life. The way women should dress, the haircut of men, the music people are allowed, movies to watch, television programs to view, and even parties in the privacy of their home are subject to the ridiculous monitoring of moral police. Islam is hell-bent on outward morality and puritanical conduct while it is rotten to the core just below the pretentious surface.

Islam segregates by gender many public places and events such as beaches, sporting venues, public transportation, and even building elevators. Families are often prevented from attending a sporting event together or swimming together at a beach.

Egypt, the crown of the Arab-Islam world, demands that citizens declare Islam or only one of the two other religions, Judaism and Christianity, as their religion in order to receive the government-issued identity cards. ID cards are required for jobs, healthcare, education, a marriage license and a host of other things. If you are an agnostic, an atheist, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Baha’i, you are forced to perjure yourself to receive the indispensable ID card. In a real sense, Islam, the pretender of high moral ground, compels people to lie in order to receive what is their birthright as citizens.

The fact that Islam is a splintered house complicates matters greatly. The faith is divided into Sunni and Shiites sects with numerous sub-sects. The divisions and contentiousness are so profound that members of one sect consider the other Muslims as apostates worthy of death. The division goes back to the time of the Prophet himself. Shiites believe that the enemies of true faith subverted its chain of authority at Muhammad’s death. They claim that the Prophet, while on his deathbed, asked for a parchment to dictate his will and to appoint Ali, his cousin and son-in-law, as his successor. The Shiites claim that Umar, an influential disciple and commander of the faith, declined the request saying to the Prophet: hasbena ketab-ul-llah—sufficient unto us is the book of God. Before long, division and infighting started in earnest and continues to this day.

Oppression of Shiite minorities in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are only two glaring instances of this longstanding and irreconcilable intra-faith hostility. The Shiite majorities in other lands return the favor to the Sunni minorities, as is the case in Iran. The recent horrific sectarian killings in Iraq represent glaring instances of irreconcilable differences among the various claimants to the mantle of true Islam.

Islam is definitely misrepresented. Islam is not misrepresented by its “detractors,” it is misrepresented by Islamic mercenaries; organizations and individuals generously funded by states as well as wealthy believers who are making billions of dollars pumping and selling oil at astronomical prices. Prestigious universities in the West, always looking for handouts, are tripping over one another to establish Islamic studies programs staffed by professors who sing the praises of Islam.

Ironically, Islamic associations routinely intimidate many newspapers, if they dare to print the truth about Islam. Legions of lawyers, both Muslims as well as hired guns, are on the lookout to intimidate and silence any voice speaking the truth about Islam. The media organizations that fall in line may receive generous advertising and other incentives from Islamic lobbyists.

I have asserted many times in the past that I am not against Muslims. I condemn Islam and those who support and promote it. In the same sense that I am not against slaves, I am against slavery and those who advocate and advance it. The very practice of Islam is tantamount to perpetuating and practicing slavery. Slavery enslaves the body, while Islam entraps the mind. Both ideals and practices are abhorrent and detrimental to the realization of our highest hopes as human beings.

In conclusion: Islam is not a religion by any standard. It is a militant, political and savage cult created by one man: Muhammad. It is time that we treat Islam as the greatest threat to human race. I have been sounding the alarm about Islam’s imminent deadly threat for a number of years. The Islamic treasury, flush with oil extortion money together with the help of useful idiots, is having the upper hand in this battle of survival for freedom. The slaveholder Islam has been transformed into a more virulent form of Islamofascism; it is an inveterate unrelenting enemy of freedom. Free people must act now and stem the tide of this deadly threat. Tomorrow may be too late. Freedom is too precious to abandon through complacency, acts of political correctness, or outright cowardice.

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Muhammad Had No Miracles: Allah

Allah made it clear in the Quran that he sent no miracles with Muhammad, neither in his Quran nor in his hadith. Would this stop Muslims from claiming that there are miracles in the Quran and sunna? I doubt it!

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The Quran is the Muslims’ most read book yet it is least understood. Muslims read the Quran to earn ‘hasanat’, i.e. the Islamic good deeds, that help the Muslim go to paradise. It is the process of reading the Quran that counts whereas the process of understanding is just a bonus. This reward system is fair and should be considered a sign of Allah’s generosity, because understanding the Quran is not an easy task; fourteen centuries on, Muslims still do not agree on its understanding! This is hardly surprising since the proper understanding of the Quran is only known to Allah and, may be, to a handful of Arabs (1), which makes you wonder why bother writing it at all.

In my time, schools in the Middle East used to teach that Muhammad’s only miracle was the Quran. It was the language of the Quran which was in mind; the claims about the scientific miracles were nonexistent. That remained to be the standard education in schools throughout the Middle East until about the 1970s. Of course, nobody ever gave a convincing explanation why the language of the Quran was considered a miracle, but it doesn’t take much to brainwash the children to believe such claims; after all, the Quran does look a weird book to learn or read.

After the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and their alliance with Saudi Arabia, Muslims now attribute thousands of miracles to Muhammad. There are numerous organizations, all generously funded, with very aggressive programmes for spreading the concept of miracles associated with Muhammad. This massive multibillion-dollar project aims to the Islamic world’s contribution to science—spreading ignorance through lies and pseudo research. By making their claims, Muslim scholars deliver a preemptive strike against any criticism to Islam. Their strategy is to cover up the areas where Islam is clearly vulnerable and present them to ordinary reader as miracles in disguise.

This article highlights some unmistakable assertions from Islam’s highest authority, Allah, that Muhammad had no miracles at all. This should be the ultimate answer to those untiring Muslims, who go around spreading the myths that Islam has miracles.

The Arabs demanded a miracle from Muhammad

Muhammad’s twenty-three-year career as a prophet is usually divided into two distinct phases: Meccan and Medinan. It was in Mecca where the Arabs felt free to debate Muhammad and ask him whatever questions they had in mind about his claims. Muhammad was stunned by the many questions put to him by intellectuals like Omar Ibn Hisham (2) and Al Nadr Ibn Al Harith. Those men exposed the real clueless and speechless Muhammad, who received no divine support. Abandoned by Allah, Muhammad became depressed (3) as he frequently failed to give answers. He used to go home and spend days or weeks thinking of those questions only to come up with odd answers that earned him the title, ‘the madman’ (4). The typical example was when they asked him about the spirit: the Arabs expected an answer of some kind from a man, who claims to communicate directly with God. Muhammad was speechless and no divine inspirations came to his help when it was most needed. It took him days or weeks of deep thinking to devise this answer: “the spirit is something Allah knows about”, which is hardly an answer worth waiting for.

17.85: they ask you concerning the Spirit. Say: “The spirit is something for my god; you are given only a little knowledge”.

Myths and stories of the past were part of the Arabs’ culture; Muhammad was particularly obsessed with the stories of the prophets sent by Allah in ancient times and used to tell those stories to the Arabs of Mecca with the hope they believe his claims of being a prophet himself. The Arabs were not impressed and rejected his claims. They even reminded him that Allah was keen to equip all his past prophets with miracles as signs of authenticity, a pattern that was never broken in the past. They insisted, then, that Muhammad must show them a miracle in order for them to believe his prophetic claim. Of course, Muhammad failed to show one.

The Arabs were so eager to see a miracle that when Muhammad revealed verse 34:9 (5) threatening them with a list of punishments, they asked him to go for it and ask his Allah and execute those threats (6) or at least perform some of those spectacular acts that lie beyond human reach. Of course, Allah didn’t.

After his migration to Medina in 622 AD, Muhammad seized power and had no interest or time for debates; the sword did it all for him. It is ironic that after thirteen years of preaching in Mecca, Muhammad recruited only a handful of followers while the Medina Arabs converted to Islam overnight, no debates and no questions asked!

Muhammad’s failure to show a miracle was reported extensively in the Quran along with some of the most absurd excuses that defy commonsense. Let us have a look at only some of those verses that Muslims read every day but never understand.

1) Verse 17:59

“And We refrain from sending the signs, only because the men of former generations treated them as false: We sent the she-camel to the Thamud to open their eyes, but they treated her wrongfully: We only send the Signs by way of terror.”

In this verse17:59, Allah declares that He decided to depart from his old practice of sending miracles with prophets because the former generations did not believe in them. Now (that is in the seventh century), He only uses miracles to terrify people (how kind!). This assertion, on its own, is clear enough to prove the point: Allah did not send miracles to Muhammad.

Just in case the Muslims do not get the point, Allah repeated the above message in many other verses. Please read on:

2) Verse 20:133

“They say: “Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord?” Has not a Clear Sign come to them of all that was in the former Books of revelation?”

In this verse, Allah reminds the Arabs of what is reported in the holy books about the previous nations who received miracles but did not believe. In other words, Allah had had enough and considers his past experience with the unbelievers as an excuse for not sending any more miracles in case the same thing happens again.

The Arabs of Mecca were understandably discontented about the above bizarre conclusion, which is repeated in many verses, that they would not believe because some former generations didn’t. This supposition is not only wrong but also contradicts some other Quranic claims made in other verses. Didn’t the Quran say that the magicians believed (7) Moses immediately? Therefore, miracles worked in the past and produced some results.

More to the point, the prediction that the Arabs would not believe were completely wide off the mark. It didn’t take more than a few years for this verse, and many others like it, to be proved wrong. When Muhammad returned to Mecca as a conqueror, all those Arabs, whom Allah claimed would not believe, converted to Islam overnight, no miracles needed, just the might of the sword!

3) Verse 13:27

“The Unbelievers say: “Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?” Say: “Truly Allah leaves to go stray, whom He will and guides to Himself those who turn to Him in penitence”

In this verse, Allah gives a very strange, but honest, excuse. He says what is the point of sending a miracle? After all, it is up to Him to decide whom he will make go astray and whom he will make believe!

4) Verse 6:109

“They swear their strongest oaths by Allah that if a sign came to them they would believe. Say: “the signs are in the power of Allah: but what will make you (Muslims) realise that if signs came, they will not believe”?

This verse (6:109) reports that the Arabs swear by Allah’s name that if they see a miracle they would believe. This is a clear confirmation that the Arabs already believed in Allah, otherwise how do they swear by His name? Muhammad called the Arabs ‘the unbelievers’, because they did not believe in his claim of prophethood. It appears from this verse that the Arabs were sincere and straight in their promise to believe if they see a miracle, so why not just send them a miracle?

The verse also states that Allah keeps those signs for himself, which is a very strange thing to do; what is the use of the signs if they were kept with Allah and never utilized?

After proudly reminding us that all miracles are with Him, Allah turns to Muslims and asks them a question: “what makes you feel that the infidels would not believe if they see a miracle” We do not see the point behind that question or the difference would the answer make to Allah or to readers of the Quran.

5) Verse 29:50

They say: “Why are not Signs sent down to him from his Lord?” Say: “The signs are indeed with Allah and I am indeed a clear Warner.”

The Quran repeats the claims that all the miracles are with Allah and confirms that He decided not to send any of them, because, according to Ibn Katheer, he knew it would not make the unbelievers believe. The verse is basically another confirmation that Muhammad performed no miracles (signs). The same logic is repeated in verses 6:37 and 13:7

6) Verse 6:37

“They say: “Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?” Say: “(Allah) hath certainly power to send down a sign: but most of them understand not”

The verse reports that the Arabs were suspicious of Muhammad’s authenticity because he had no signs. As an answer to the Arabs’ questions, the verse says that Allah is capable of sending signs if He wishes, which indicates that Allah did not wish to send one to Muhammad.

7) Verse 13: 7.

“And the Unbelievers say: “Why is not a sign sent down to him from his Lord?” But thou art truly a warner, and to every people a guide”

In this verse, Muhammad accepts the fact that he had no miracles and tries to justify such an odd position. He came up with the excuse that was only a guide, which was not a plausible excuse to the Arabs because they believed that all the past prophets were also guides to their nations, but they all had miracles.

8) Verse 17: 93

“Or thou have a house adorned with gold, or thou mount a ladder right into the skies. No, we shall not even believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a book that we could read.” Say: “Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man,- an apostle?”

In this verse 17:93, Muhammad makes an unequivocal admission that he had no miracles. It happened when the Arabs asked him to demonstrate for them one of a list of miracles they listed for him in this and the three preceding verses. His answer was clear and indisputable: I don’t have a miracle; I am only a human.

What about the Quranic Challenge?

Allah challenged all humans (Verses 2:23, 17:88) to produce a chapter that matches the Quran but nobody did. According to Muslims, this is an indication that the Quran is a miracle. This piece of information is known to all Muslims and would undoubtedly come to the minds of those who may read this article, hence the following comment:

The majority of Muslims do not know that the Internet is bursting with literature that mimics the Quran. Normally, no sane Arab could openly compose a work that mimics the Quran for the fear of death. However, the Internet provided a safe haven to those authors, who are willing to take the challenge. Nevertheless, it is worth highlighting that the two greatest Arab poets, Al Maari and Al Mutanabbi, both composed their own Qurans albeit they were forced to withdraw their works and repent. Their Qurans have completely disappeared from history.

In the past, a renowned Islamic group, named Al Mutazilla, believed that although the Quran was the word of Allah but there was nothing spectacular about its style. The Meccan Arabs did not like the Quran and thought it was a poor kind of literature, which is why they thought Muhammad was mad. It was not unexpected for Muhammad to react by claiming that his work was the best in the world.

Muhammad was an Arab and the Arabs still react in a similar manner in similar circumstances. In Arab culture, it is still common for a person, who produces a poor work, to defend his product by saying: “I challenge you and all your relatives to produce something similar”. Or even to swear in the name of Allah that his product is “the best product in the world”. On the other hand, people who produce works of high quality, be it literature or any form of art, do not makes such challenges. If the challenge verses mean anything, they mean that the Arabs did not like the Quran. They are signs of weakness rather than signs of strength.

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References:

1. Verse 3:7

“He it is Who has sent down to you the Book: In it are verses of established meanings; they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its meanings, but no one knows its meanings except Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: “We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord:” and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.”

2. Omar Ibn Hisham was renowned of his encyclopaedic knowledge (father of knowledge) and recognised Muhammad was a liar. When Muhammad seized power, he reversed his nickname to ‘father of ignorance’ and tracked him, together with Al nadr Ibn Al Harith, and killed thim in the battle of Badr.

3. Verse 18:6 “Perhaps, you, would kill yourself (O ) in grief, over their footsteps (for their turning away from you), because they do not believe this narration (the Quran)”

4. Verse 37:36 “And they said: “Are we going to abandon our gods for the sake of a mad poet?” and verse 44:14 “Then they had turned away from him ( ) and said: “One taught (by a human being), a madman!”

5. Verse 34:9 See they not what is before them and what is behind them, of the heaven and the earth? If We will, We shall sink the earth with them, or cause a piece of the sky to fall upon them. Verily, in this is a sign for every faithful believer that turns to Allah.

6. Verses:

17:90 And they say: “We shall not believe in you, until you cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us;

17:91 “Or you have a garden of date-palms and grapes, and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst abundantly;

17:92″Or you cause the heaven to fall upon us in pieces, as you have pretended, or you bring Allah and the angels before (us) face to face;

17:93 “Or you have a house of adornable materials (like silver and pure gold, etc.), or you ascend up into the sky, and even then we will put no faith in your ascension until you bring down for us a Book that we would read.” Say (O ): “Glorified be my Lord (Allah) above all that evil they (polytheists) associate with Him! Am I anything but a man, a Messenger?”

7. Verses 7:120 And the magicians fell down in prostration, 20:70, So the magicians fell down in prostration. They said, “We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses.” 26:46 So the magicians fell down in prostration

8. Verse 2:23 “And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our Servant [], then produce a surah the like thereof and call upon your witnesses other than Allah, if you should be truthful”, and verse 17:88 “Say, “If mankind and the jinn gathered in order to produce the like of this Qur’an, they could not produce the like of it, even if they were to each other assistants”