This is a kind of long article but I promise that you can corner every muslim by asking him the following questions :. PART 2 The Twentieth Century (Note: by the turn of the twentieth century, the Arabs already had enough of the backward rule of the Ottomans and started to move slowly towards secularism. This was alarming to the Islamists who formed their Muslim brotherhood movement in 1928 in Egypt to stop the rising secular trend in that country. However, apostasy has always been a serious offence in the Middle Eastern societies and Arab in general avoided to be labelled as apostates. Such secular Arabs worked and published their works under the disguise of reformers. Most of the published works that criticised Islam were later banned. Because of politeness and security nearly all the Christian Arab writers avoided to write anything that may appear to be critical to the Quran) Al Zahawi (1863-1936) and Al Rasafi (1875-1945) were the two most famous poets in Iraq and both were accused of apostasy. AlRasafi is well known to the Arabs by his poetry, but he also authored a book called ‘Mohammed’s personality’, in which he presents a very good and objective analysis of Mohammed. I personally never saw the book in the bookshops and didn’t even know about it until I read it on the internet. Dr. Taha Hussain (1889-1973) was the most famous Arab writer in the twentieth century and is considered as the father of Arabic literature. Hussain wrote a book that casts some doubts about the honesty of the early Muslims and accused them of manipulating history and poetry to their advantage. The book caused a stormy response by the Islamists and was banned; Hussain was accused of apostasy and was forced to repent. Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was the only Noble prize winner in Arabic literature. At the age of eighty, he survived an assassination attempt by the Islamists who accused him of apostasy. The Arab writers are generally aware of the consequences of openly criticising Islam so they do not do it, but judging from their works, none of them seems to be stunned by the Quran. More recently, the Arabs lost one of their best known poets, Mohamoud Darwish (1941-2008) , who was an Israeli Palestinian atheist. The above is only a sample of Arab writers and poets whose knowledge of the Arabic Language and literature is recognized by all. It is ironic that unlike the Muslims from countries like India, Indonesia or Pakistan these great writers didn’t like the language of the Quran. We mustn’t forget that millions of the Arabs are Christians. Some of the good writers and poets in the Arab world are Christians who obviously are not that impressed by the Quran. It is striking that the Arab Christians, who speak Arabic as a first language, and have been in contact with Islam for centuries, do not convert to Islam, which is in sharp contrast to the European Christians. Once I read in a Saudi Islamic website a list of the contemporary Arab writers who are accused of apostasy. I was shocked at the length of the list; it certainly included all the ones I know and many more. It seems that the only Arab writers who are stunned by the Quran are the Muslim scholars. Even that may be an exaggeration because rumours once circulated that Al Akkad (1889-1964) and Al Hakim (1898-1987), both famous writers who wrote Islamically acceptable books about Mohammed, were in fact atheists. Although this may be just a rumour but we know that both men were not practicing Muslims anyway, even in public! 3. The third big lie: The Quranic Challenge The Quran contains an open challenge (Q.17: 88) from Allah to mankind and to those invisible Islamic creatures called jinn, to produce a work similar to the Quran. Muslims believe that it is a miracle that no humans have been able to take the challenge. This claim is just another big Islamic lie. Apostates : In the verse that quran challanges muslims to write a book similar to quran , the verse continues : And if you do , you will burn in the hell fire forever. Some kind of challange ha ? The pre Islamic literature There is some very bad news for Muslims because the Quran lost its challenge even before Mohammed started his ‘revelations’. Many of the Quranic verses were virtual copies from works already published by others, like Umaya Ibn Alsalt, Zaid Ibn Nowayfil and Imru Al Qays and others. The chances are that an Arab never heard about such literature before, which doesn’t surprise me; I only knew about it when I started to get used to the internet a few years ago. That was unfortunate because, had I knew about it earlier, it could have speed up my departure from Islam. There is a striking similarity between that pre Islamic poetry and some of the verses of the Quran. Muslim scholars deny that the literature was pre Islamic and claim it was composed after Islam and attributed to those jahylia (pre Islamic) poets. The Muslim scholars’ obsession is to deny that the Quran had mimicked others’ works, mean while they forget that the literature was similar to the Quran no matter when it was said. When I first read about that hidden jahilyia poetry I felt there is a very dirty conspiracy from the Muslim scholars, who mask any anything that could invoke suspicion about the Quran. There is no explanation why such literature doesn’t come for of open discussions. The Satanic Verses But there is some more bad news for the Muslims: the Quran documents that it lost the challenge even before the revelations were completed! The winners this time were the Muslims’ main rivals, the Jinn! (The satan himself) The Jinn’s chief, Iblees, played a practical joke with Mohammed and inserted some of his verses in sura Al najm (Q.53) then he injected that sura in Mohammed’s heart ( which is the Islamic brain, according to the Quran) Those verses were so original that Mohammed recited them during his prayers without noticing the difference! It was Allah who spotted those satanic verses and removed them from the Quran. The Islamic history describes other Qurans It is impossible for any anti Islamic material to survive the strict Islamic censorship. However, careful reading of the Islamic history indicates that many other Qurans were already written before our existing Quran was compiled by Caliph Uthman. According to the Islamic history, Caliph Uthman ordered all other copies of the Quran, which were kept by notable Muslims like Ibn Masoud, to be burnt. Those copies were different from Uthman’s Quran, for example surat Al Ahzab was more than double its existing size in other copies. Muslims believe that Allah guided Uthman and his aides to abandon those verses because they were not parts of the Quran. This story indicates that the early Arabs authored some chapters that were indistinguishable from the Quran. In other words the Arabs won the challenge. The ‘modern Qurans’ Many Muslims believe that writing anything similar to the Quran is a crime punishable by death, so it is logical not to expect any sane person to attempt it. Needless to say that any such work would never be published or preserved. However, since the introduction of the Internet, there is no shortage of people who post new verses from their Qurans on daily basis. Most of those imitations look very similar to the original; some even contain errors to make them indistinguishable from the real one!
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:01:55 +0000
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