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Bismi Allah

(In the Name of Allah)

Part–5(i) of 11

By Abul Kasem (e-mail address: nirribilli@gmail.com) August 24, 2006 [color=RED][i][A note of caution: The contents of this essay might offend some readers.][/i][/color]

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Allah’s Temperament-(i)

In part–3 of this essay we read about Allah’s likes and dislikes. Truly, the list of Allah’s beloved and hateful objects and practices is limitless. An entire book will not be enough to cull them and describe them. Never the less, we had the glimpse of a short hand version of those likes and dislikes of Allah. Let us not be surprised to note that Allah’s experience is quite similar to human taste, temper, emotion, sentiment and psychology. In this part (part–5) we are going to witness more of Allah’s human like nature—so much so, that the readers might be wondering whether they are reading the biography of a human being or not, except that the name of this human being is Allah. Let us proceed to learn about many other idiosyncrasies of Allah.

Allah approves telling lies

Muslim scholars will tell us that in Islam telling lies is a serious crime/sin. A Muslim must always be sincere and truthful in whatever he says and does. Based on this assumption, we could never expect the last and the best Prophet of Allah (Muhammad) to unabashedly tell lies or to fervently incite other Muslims to gleefully resort to lies and deception. No Muslim could ever contemplate that Muhammad would had ever denied that He was sent by Allah as His messenger. But wait, Muhammad did exactly that. During the signing of Hudaibiya treaty, the Quraysh insisted that Muhammad erase the title of his name he put in the draft, ‘Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah’. Instead, the Quraysh delegate insisted that his title should read as ‘Muhammad, son of Abdallah’. Muhammad’s comrades, Ali, Umar, Uthman and others vehemently objected to comply with such an odious demand from the despicable Meccan idolaters. But Muhammad coolly agreed with the pagan demand and asked Ali, who drafted the treaty, to point to him the location in the document of his title, ‘Messenger of Allah’. When Ali duly complied with that request, Muhammad unhesitatingly wiped off his title, ‘Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah’. To many of his diehard jihadists, this amounted telling the untruth. In fact, Umar was so disgusted with Muhammad’s lie (or deception) that he even thought of leaving Islam. He (Umar) was so angry that he flatly asked Muhammad if he (Muhammad) still doubted his Apostleship of Allah. Without providing any satisfactory answer Muhammad simply kept quiet and smirked. Thus, if one accepts that Muhammad was indeed the messenger of Allah, then Muhammad had simply lied to the Quraysh. Alternatively, if he was really a pretender, then he must had been telling lies throughout his missionary period. Let us read this authentic hadith from Sahih Bukhari on Muhammad’s attempt to tell lies—presumably with Allah’s permission. While signing the treaty of Hudaibiya Muhammad rubbed off the title of Messenger of Allah … (Sahih Bukhari, 3.49.862, 863). [quote] [i]Volume 3, Book 49, Number 862:[/i] Narrated Al-Bara bin 'Azib: When Allah's Apostle concluded a peace treaty with the people of Hudaibiya, Ali bin Abu Talib wrote the document and he mentioned in it, "Muhammad, Allah's Apostle." The pagans said, "Don't write: 'Muhammad, Allah's Apostle', for if you were an apostle we would not fight with you." Allah's Apostle asked Ali to rub it out, but Ali said, "I will not be the person to rub it out." Allah's Apostle rubbed it out and made peace with them on the condition that the Prophet and his companions would enter Mecca and stay there for three days, and that they would enter with their weapons in cases. [/quote] If a diehard believer is perturbed reading the above hadith, then here is more shocking news for him. The Sharia law permits a Muslim to tell lies if and when necessary—for the sake of Islam. Here is a law from the Shafii School of jurisprudence. [quote] Law r8.2 “Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible” (al-Misri, 1999, p. 745). [/quote] When it comes to, war, murder, assassination, plunder and theft, Allah loves those Muslims who will resort to deliberate lies and deceptions. This was what Muhammad did. When a professional killer agreed to murder, upon Muhammad’s request, the Jewish poet K’ab b. al-Ashraf, he (the killer) was a bit hesitant as he had to resort to lies and deception to accomplish his mission. Muhammad, without any compunction allowed the assassin to resort to lies and deception to kill Ka’b b. al–Ashraf. Let us read the following hadith to gauge the limit of fraud Allah would allow His dearest prophet to kill his intellectual critics. [quote] [i]Volume 5, Book 59, Number 369:[/i] Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: Allah's Apostle said, "Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?" Thereupon Muhammad bin Maslama got up saying, "O Allah's Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?" The Prophet said, "Yes," Muhammad bin Maslama said, "Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).”The Prophet said, "You may say it." Then Muhammad bin Maslama went to Ka’b and said, "That man (i.e. Muhammad demands Sadaqa (i.e. Zakat)) from us, and he has troubled us, and I have come to borrow something from you." On that, Kab said, "By Allah, you will get tired of him!" Muhammad bin Maslama said, "Now as we have followed him, we do not want to leave him unless and until we see how his end is going to be. Now we want you to lend us a camel load or two of food." (Some difference between narrators about a camel load or two.) Kab said, "Yes, (I will lend you), but you should mortgage something to me." Muhammad bin Maslama and his companion said, "What do you want?" Ka'b replied, "Mortgage your women to me." They said, "How can we mortgage our women to you and you are the most handsome of the 'Arabs?" Ka'b said, "Then mortgage your sons to me." They said, "How can we mortgage our sons to you? Later they would be abused by the people's saying that so-and-so has been mortgaged for a camel load of food. That would cause us great disgrace, but we will mortgage our arms to you." Muhammad bin Maslama and his companion promised Kab that Muhammad would return to him. He came to Kab at night along with Kab's foster brother, Abu Na'ila. Kab invited them to come into his fort, and then he went down to them. His wife asked him, "Where are you going at this time?" Kab replied, "None but Muhammad bin Maslama and my (foster) brother Abu Na'ila have come." His wife said, "I hear a voice as if dropping blood is from him, (sic)Ka'b said.”They are none but my brother Muhammad bin Maslama and my foster brother Abu Naila. A generous man should respond to a call at night even if invited to be killed." Muhammad bin Maslama went with two men. (Some narrators mention the men as 'Abu bin Jabr. Al Harith bin Aus and Abbad bin Bishr). So Muhammad bin Maslama went in together with two men, and said to them, "When Ka'b comes, I will touch his hair and smell it, and when you see that I have got hold of his head, strip him. I will let you smell his head." Kab bin Al-Ashraf came down to them wrapped in his clothes, and diffusing perfume. Muhammad bin Maslama said. “Have never smelt a better scent than this.” Ka'b replied. "I have got the best 'Arab women who know how to use the high class of perfume." Muhammad bin Maslama requested Ka'b "Will you allow me to smell your head?" Ka'b said, "Yes." Muhammad smelt it and made his companions smell it as well. Then he requested Ka'b again, "Will you let me (smell your head)?" Ka'b said, "Yes." When Muhammad got a strong hold of him, he said (to his companions), "Get at him!" So they killed him and went to the Prophet and informed him. (Abu Rafi) was killed after Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf." [/quote] But Allah is not that stupid to allow unfettered lies lest they backfire on Him and on Muhammad. That is why he forbade Muslims to tell lies against Muhammad. Here is a hadith from Sahih Bukhari which warns believers of hell-fire should they dare to lie against Muhammad (Sahih Bukhari, 1.3.106, 107, 108). [quote] [i]Volume 1, Book 3, Number 106:[/i] Narrated 'Ali: The Prophet said, "Do not tell a lie against me for whoever tells a lie against me (intentionally) then he will surely enter the Hell-fire." [/quote]

When Muhammad was weak, Allah was scared of the idolaters

When Muhammad started out as a professional prophet of Allah, Allah was not fully ready to combat the despicable Meccan pagans who often embarrassed Muhammad with pertinent questions about his claim of Allah’s apostleship. The all-powerful, all-knowing, almighty Allah was actually quite helpless in confronting the barrage of questions that those contemptible idolaters posed to Muhammad. Truly, at this stage Allah was scared of them. He advised Muhammad to maintain a conciliatory and amicable demure when confronting those Meccans. Allah told Muhammad not to curse or insult the idols of the polytheists lest the idolaters, in retaliation, blaspheme and curse Allah (6:108). Allah remained frightful of those Meccan idolaters. In fact, Allah was so much in fear of retaliation from the Meccan unbelievers that He advised Muhammad and his myopic number of followers to forgive the unbelievers (45:14). Allah then assured His Apostle that He would decide on their punishment and/or reward. Let us read these two important verses. [quote] [i]006.108[/i] [b]YUSUFALI:[/b] Revile not ye those whom they call upon besides Allah, lest they out of spite revile Allah in their ignorance. Thus have We made alluring to each people its own doings. In the end will they return to their Lord, and We shall then tell them the truth of all that they did. [i]045.014[/i] [b]YUSUFALI:[/b] Tell those who believe, to forgive those who do not look forward to the Days of Allah: It is for Him to recompense (for good or ill) each People according to what they have earned. [/quote] As expected, when Muhammad migrated to Medina, gathered his army of bandits and profligates, Allah felt militarily strong enough to abandon those two verses. Such is the claim by many Islamist scholars. They contend that those verses have been abrogated by verses such as 9:5 and 9:36. The bottom line is: Allah was weak when Muhammad was weak; Allah became powerful when Muhammad became strong militarily—Allah’s strength was totally dependent on Muhammad’s raw muscle power.

Allah loves to frighten and terrorize infidels; Allah is a terrorist

As told previously, Allah loves to torment the infidels with sickness, murrain, ill fortune, pestilence, hurricane, violent storm, earthquake and what not. As if this is not enough, Allah sets them to the intense torture of terror. In fact, Allah is some kind of a dreadful terrorist, such as Osama b. Ladin or Musab al–Zarqawi. In the Qur’an (17:60) we read that Allah showed Muhammad a vision of ordeal of mankind and the accursed tree (Zaqquum); it was to put terror in the minds of people (unbelievers). Let us read the verse. [quote] [i]017.060[/i] [b]YUSUFALI:[/b] Behold! We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about: We granted the vision which We showed thee, but as a trial for men,- as also the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur'an: We put terror (and warning) into them, but it only increases their inordinate transgression! [/quote] In Sunaan ibn Majah we read that Allah demands fear from us. Sunaan ibn Majah is not available online, so I shall quote from the print version of it. [quote] [i]Sunaan ibn Majah Vol. v, Hadith Number 4299[/i] Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) is reported to have said that Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) read out (or recited) this verse: “He is the fount of fear. He is the fount of Mercy (74:56).” Then he said, “Allah, the Mighty and Glorious has said, “I deserve that I am feared and no other god is appointed with Me. So he who fears that no other god is appointed with Me, then I am competent to forgive him. Abul–Hasa b. Qattah related to us, who said: Ibrahim b. Nasr related to us; Hudba b. Khalid related to us; Suhail b. Abi Hazm related Thabit to have said on the authority of Anas that Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said regarding this verse (74:56), “He is fount of fear. He is the fount of forgiveness.” Allah’s Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Your Lord says: I deserve to be feared, therefore, associate naught with Me other than I; and I am competent for him who fears to associate with me anything besides Me, to forgive him.” [/quote] Allah is particularly interested in committing acts of terror, plunder and murder early in the morning. No wonder then that we note a striking similarity in the timing on perpetration the Islamic terror: many of them were really committed early in the morning, when the infidels are ready to go to work. Allah also exhorts the jihadists to offer prayers before setting out on a terrorist mission. Here are a few ahadith which tell us about Allah’s obsession with prayer timing and terror acts. It looks Islamic prayer and acts of terrorism are intertwined—they are simply inseparable. The best time to go plundering and terror is in the morning…(Tirmidhi, 1086) [quote] Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas The Prophet (peace be upon him) sent Abdullah ibn Rawahah with a detachment and that happened to be on a Friday. His companions set off in the morning, but he decided to stay behind and catch up with them after saying the prayer along with Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him). When he did so he saw him and asked him what had prevented him from going out in the morning with his companions. He replied, "I wanted to pray along with you and then catch up with them." Whereupon he said, "If you were to contribute all that the earth contains you would not attain the excellence of their going out in the morning." Tirmidhi transmitted it. (Hadith quoted from ALIM CD ROM). [/quote] Pray, then fight, then pray then fight—the wind of victory blows with every prayer offered…(Tirmidhi, 1087). [quote] Narrated an-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin Qatadah quoted an-Nu'man ibn Muqarrin as saying: "I went on an expedition with Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him), and when dawn came he waited till the sun rose and when it rose he fought. Then when midday came he stopped till the sun passed the meridian and when it had done so he fought till the afternoon, when he stopped till he prayed the afternoon prayer, and then fought." Qatadah told that it used to be said that the winds of victory blew at that time and the believers made supplication for their armies during their prayer. Tirmidhi transmitted it. (Hadith quoted from ALIM CD ROM). [/quote] In a subsequent section you will learn more about Allah’s love for Islamic terrorism.

Allah gets sadistic satisfaction by feeding infidels with the fruit of Zaqqum tree

Here are a few verses which say how much satisfaction Allah derives by feeding the infidels with the bitter fruit of the Zaqqum tree. [quote] Zaqqum, the bitter tree in hell is for the unbelievers…37:62 Allah has made the Zaqqum tree for the unbelievers…37:63 Zaqqum springs out of bottom of hell fire…37:64 Zaqqum fruit stalks are like heads of devils…37:65 Sinners (unbelievers) are to eat the bitter Zaqqum fruit…37:66 The tree of Zaqqum (a bitter fruit) will be the food for the sinners...44:43-44 They will taste tree of Zaqqum (a bitter and pungent tree)...56:52 [/quote]

Allah is stingy in bestowing His bounty to His slaves

Despite so much talk about the unfettered bounty of Allah, we read in the Qur’an that Allah, after all, is not really that rich. He is actually quite miserly and stingy—to say the least. The reason why Allah is stingy with His slaves is also explained in this (42:27) verse. If Allah gives more to all his slaves then there will be more transgression. That is why Allah is very careful in bestowing His bounties (i.e., Allah is stingy). Let us read this verse. [quote] [i]042.027[/i] YUSUFALI: If Allah were to enlarge the provision for His Servants, they would indeed transgress beyond all bounds through the earth; but he sends (it) down in due measure as He pleases. For He is with His Servants Well-acquainted, Watchful. [/quote]

Allah loves commitment of adultery by His slaves (Muslims)

No crime in Islam is more heinous than adultery or sex between two adults, whether consensual or not. The act of such expression of love is the ultimate depravity, according to Islam. The punishment for engaging in such love act is also extremely harsh and barbaric—stoning to death (see Islamic stoning to death here). We might expect Allah to be very strict on this dreadful sexual indulgence to prevent his slaves from such extreme harsh punishment. But Allah’s mind is not that simple and easy. Instead of discouraging adultery or fornication, Allah, in reality, encourages his subjects to commit such ‘odious’ act. In fact, Allah proclaims that He has already fixed for a person the act of adultery, so that he could never escape from it. Let us read the following ahadith to gauge the incredible mind and temperament of Allah. The act of adultery is destined by Allah; adultery of the eye and the tongue...(Sahih Bukhari, 8.77.609) [quote] [i]Sahih Bukhari Volume 8, Book 77, Number 609:[/i] Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: I did not see anything so resembling minor sins as what Abu Huraira said from the Prophet, who said, "Allah has written for the son of Adam his inevitable share of adultery whether he is aware of it or not: The adultery of the eye is the looking (at something which is sinful to look at), and the adultery of the tongue is to utter (what it is unlawful to utter), and the innerself wishes and longs for (adultery) and the private parts turn that into reality or refrain from submitting to the temptation." To confuse the ummah further, Allah even proclaims that adultery could be done with look and tongue (quite similar to what the Bible writes!). [/quote] Let us read the following hadith from Sahih Muslim. Allah has fixed the portion of adultery a man would indulge out of necessity; there is the adultery of the look and the tongue … (Sahih Muslim, 33.6421) [quote] [i]Sahih Muslim, Book 033, Number 6421: [/i] Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Verily Allah has fixed the very portion of adultery which a man will indulge in, and which he of necessity must commit. The adultery of the eye is the lustful look, and the adultery of the tongue is the licentious speech, the heart desires and yearns, which the parts may or may not put into effect. [/quote]

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To be continued in Part-5(ii)...