An Adulterated Religion!
Published in September 17, 2010
Translated by: Ahmed Fathy
1- A man was so ill that he was desperate of ever getting cured, but in a vision while he was asleep, he heard a man giving him a remedy to drink, and when he woke up, he found himself holding the bottle of medicine, and after drinking it, he was miraculously cured. This great remedy spread among people and its fame preceded it; so many people benefited from it. Yet, with the passage of time, this bottle of medicine has been adulterated, as evil people modified its contents and diluted it with water and other liquids. The pure medicine turned into bad, fake remedies of different types and brand-names that no longer cure the ill people; the ailment returned with a vengeance to dominate their lives once more.
2- The above lines are of a symbolic story, of course, but it describes what has occurred to Muslims and Islam exactly. The Quran descended as the pure God-given remedy with all guidance and purity, and Arabs at the time, in the 7th century A.D., were a sick nation cured by the Quran. But once Muhammad died, conditions of Arabs changed and their sickness returned stronger than ever, as Arabs have ignored and rejected the remedy (i.e., the Quran) and they have sanctified and deified other 'holy' books authored by men: interpretations, fiqh, hadiths, etc. and no longer revere and honor the Quran, God's Word, inside their hearts. Thus, Arabs returned to the pre-Islamic era of ignorance in Arabia and of other nations they conquered as well. Indeed, all grave sins prohibited in the Quran are now spread among the Muhammadans in their societies: polytheism, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, corruption, eating ill-gotten money, looting, violence, sabotage, aggression, etc.
3- Before the advent of Islam, Arabian tribes fought against one another (massacring, raiding, looting, enslaving, etc.) for decades with or without reasons, living on the margin of world history and no civilization near them (i.e., Egyptians, Byzantines, and Persians) cared for them. The very first and last secular, direct-democracy city-state of Islam was the Quran-based Yathreb-city state that applied Quranic human rights, religious freedom, and all higher values like freedom, justice, equality, mercy, charity, and social solidarity. Islam has caused the Arab language to be among the most important international languages at the time, Arabic was imposed on nations conquered by Arabs who formed an Arab empire from borders of China to borders of France. Even poets/vagabonds of Arabia before Islam became main figures in Arab history later on, like Qais and Al-Mohalhal Ibn Rabeia.
4- The bad habits and corruption of Arabs before Islam returned with a vengeance once Muhammad died after Arabs committed the crimes of Arab conquests by formulating them in hadiths ascribed falsely to Muhammad after his death and to God as well. Of course, the Quran tells us that even during Muhammad's lifetime, haters of the Quran tried to compose religious narratives and texts (or distracting tales) to undermine the Quran: "Among the people is he who trades in distracting tales; intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God's way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment. And when Our Verses are recited to him, he turns away in pride, as though he did not hear them, as though there is deafness in his ears. So inform him of a painful punishment." (31:6-7). The bad habits returned within the guise of hadiths and fiqh legislations later on.
5- Evil, corrupt people invented hadiths and series of narrators (a.k.a. Isnad) and ascribed such false narratives to God and to Muhammad. Such falsehoods are now considered as part of Islam and celestial, divine revelation, and this led the Muhammadans to reject the Quran, as they overlook this verse about perfecting the religion of Islam in the Quran exclusively: "...Today I have perfected your religion for you, and have completed My favor upon you, and have approved Islam as a religion for you..." (5:3). This means that no part of Islam is found in any other books written in the Abbasids Era or after it; such books reflect the mentalities of their authors and have nothing to do with Islam; yet, these books led to formulation and emergence of the three earthly, man-made religions of the Muhammadans: the Sufi, Sunnite, and Shiite religion, whose followers raise the banner and name of Islam though they have rejected its Quranic text, sharia, and values.
6- The catalyst that helped bad and corrupt habits of the pre-Islamic era to return with a vengeances was that most of the so-called companions loved worldly possession and disbelieved in the Hereafter (like most human beings in all eras) and this led them to form an Arab empire using Islam as a unifying factor; desert-Arabs and Bedouins longed to return to raiding, fighting, massacring, enslaving, and stealing, and such obscurantist, violent culture returned within false religious pretext of conquering other nations that made such crimes as part of religious duties and rituals and 'jihad' that brought Paradise to them in the Hereafter as well! The Arabs intentionally overlooked this verse and violated God's sharia laws in the Quran: "And fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not commit aggression; God does not love the aggressors." (2:190).
7- It is very wrong indeed to deem the crimes of Arab conquests as 'Islamic', and as an Arab empire was established from borders of China to borders of France, Arabs choose to discard and reject Quranic sharia laws that contradict their crimes of conquests, and they confiscated looted and stolen treasures of conquered, enslaved nations to themselves by virtue of fabricating hadiths to supplant and replace 2:190 (and other Quranic verses), as they knew they could not distort the phrasing of Quranic text itself and they could not repent and leave all countless riches and treasures they stole. Thus, their solution was to invent the Sunnite religion and its oral narratives spread by narrators/orators all over Arabia (during the Umayyad and Pre-Umayyad eras) and such lies and falsehoods had the chance to be written down during the Abbasid Era in several narratives' books whose number increased exponentially. All hadiths contradict the Quran; e.g., the 2:190 is contradicted by the hadith ascribed falsely to Muhammad (I was commanded to fight all people till they convert to Islam...). Indeed, this hadith contradicts about 1000 Quranic verses that assert absolute religious freedom and that there is no compulsion/coercion in religion, as a personal/individual responsibility and choice of each human being before our Lord God on the Last Day. The adulterated religions of the Muhammadans managed to marginalize real Islam (i.e., Quranism) that is preserved by God till the end of days in the Quranic text as a warning to all humankind in all eras. The bad, corrupt habits of pre-Islamic era returned disguised within quasi-religious notions whose authors claim as if they were part of Islam presented and offered to the world! What a shame and what disgrace!
8- Most of the world today believe in this myth of making the Sufi, Shiite, and Sunnite religions appear as if they were Islam. The Arabs committed this crime of inventing and believing such myths in the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. Thus, Islam is now accused of all terrorist crimes committed by Muhammadans. Within a forum held in Woodrow Wilson Center, where we work now as a visiting professor, on 16th of September, 2010, an American woman/author delivered a speech about her book about her travels to Sudan, Nigeria, and Indonesia, and she ascribes in her book the despicable conditions ad crimes in these countries to Islam. We delivered our own speech refuting her views, while making a clear barrier between Islam (Quranism) and Muhammadans whose crimes contradict the Quran, but this American author felt troubled and furious as we refuted the very foundations of her book, as she mixed between persons and Islam as a religion, and she had to interrupt our speech defiantly to stop her ignorance being exposed by our speech, after we have proven to the attendees that this author knows nothing about Islam and the Quranic Truth that she claims to be the main focus of her book as shown in its title.
9- We pose the same question over and over: why when talking about crusades, European colonialism that massacred whole nations, and the USA and its crimes in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, no one in the West ascribe such atrocities to Christianity, but to certain rulers/persons, while people in the West insist on ascribing crimes, atrocities, and terrorism of Bin Laden and his likes to Islam, though the victims of Sunnite and Shiite terrorism are mostly Arabs and Muhammadans, more than the number of terrorism victims in the West?
10- We cannot blame people in the West countries, though. Arabs are to blame for naming Wahabi terrorists with the term 'Islamists'. Arabs are to blame for taking pride in the crime of Arab conquests and naming them 'Islamic' conquests. Why Arabs are denouncing crusades, Zionism, and European colonialism, while glorifying and praising the Arab conquests which are not less criminal?! Because Arabs are still captives to the culture of slaves maintained by the earthly, man-made religion of ignorance (i.e., the Sunnite, Shiite, and Sufi ones), and they never attempt to understand and ponder on the Quran without ancient books of interpretation, hadiths, fiqh, and branches of 'knowledge' of the Quran set by Middle-Ages scholars. What a shame and what disgrace! The Arabs and Muhammadans have committed the crime of rejecting and abandoning the Quran; thus, they are enemies of God's prophets including Muhammad: "And the messenger will say, "My Lord, my people have abandoned this Quran." Likewise, to every prophet We assign enemies from among the wicked. But your Lord suffices as a Guide and a Supporter." (25:30-31).
11- During Muhammad's lifetime, Islam was alive in souls of real, pious believers; the real Sunna (methods, practices, or ways) of Muhammad was only applying the Quran with nothing else beside it. The Quran was the only sharia, Sunna, methodology, law, and the moralistic level of Muhammad. After Muhammad's death, and with the passage of time, the Quran has been rejected, discarded, and abandoned by people, and other man-made books stole the limelight from the Quranic message. Muhammad never knew or read such books authored by the Muhammadans during the Abbasid Era; even Sunnites in their biographies of Muhammad write that he ordered everyone around him never to write anything from him beside the Quranic verses. When Arabs/Muhammadans differed and disputed over the notions of the earthly, man-made Sunnite and Shiite religions and were divided into groups fighting one another in the past, this goes on until the present moment; and hadiths and fiqh foment and incites such centuries-old struggle. No one among the Shiite and Sunnite Muhammadans is willing to resort to the Quran as the only criterion to settle their disputes.
12- Strangely, Arabs and Muhammadans has been talk constantly since the 1970s about a 'religious revival'; they aim at making 'holy' and sanctified books, authored by men in the Middle-Ages eras of tyranny and corruption of caliphate, to dominate their societies. The real revival of Islam is Quranism; i.e., to return to the Miracle of Quran authored by our Lord God. Why Arab people do not approve of this revival, though they call themselves as 'Muslims'?!
A last word:
Please everyone, give the Quran a chance!