Islam: A Pack of White Lies
I
By Mohammad
Asghar
Most
humans consider lying to be a despicable act. To prevent them from lying,
some nations have enacted laws with a view to punishing the liars. In the
United States
, liars are punished by imprisonment. Yet, many Americans do not hesitate
to lie, if it is likely to bring them power, monetary gains and the
accolades and respect of their families and societies.
Criminals
of all colors, caste and creed also lie to escape punishments for their
crimes; petty thieves do the same for the same reason. There are many
others who, though appear to have gentle and attractive countenances, feel
no qualm in using the venom of their lies, when the use of it is likely to
destroy their real and perceived enemies.
The
severity of lies depends on the magnitude of success that lies are
expected to bring to the liars. Therefore, the world has seen a large
number of both small and big liars ever since humans started walking on
earth’s surface. It would continue to hold liars on its bosom until the
time it disappears from the solar system of our universe.
Throughout
human history liars were able not only to bring wealth, fame and power to
themselves, they also succeeded in enslaving a large number of mankind by
combining lies with their power of manipulation. In support of my
statement, I cite a few examples of lies, which had been impacting our
lives from the time humans began treating those lies, not as lies, but as
truths.
When,
over 3,300 years ago, some manipulative Hebrews wanted to establish their
hegemony over their fellow religionists, they concocted the story of their
exodus from
Egypt
, supposedly under the leadership of a leader, they named only Moses,
together with clothing him with the garb of a prophet. They projected him
as being the only human being with whom Allah (God in English) spoke in
person on the summit of
Mount Sinai
, and gave him the Book, now called the Torah.
Some
2,000 years ago, when another group of manipulative people wished to
subject the Jews to their rule, they had a virgin girl given birth to a
son, who is now known as Jesus Christ. In his manhood, this son of a
virgin mother, rightly claiming that he was a “Son of God,” declared
that many of the things the Jews had been doing for ages were wrong and
that he was sent by his Father to set them on the path of righteousness
and honorable living. He wore the mantle of a religious reformer to seize
power from the rabbis, and to declare himself the King of the Jews, if he
succeeded with his ploy.
In
the struggle for power, Jesus lost. When the powerful Jewish rabbis
succeeded in securing, for him, a death sentence, which was to be carried
out through crucifixion, his All-Powerful Father i.e. Allah did not
intervene; instead, He permitted his son’s enemy to execute him brutally
so that He could use his holy blood for the expiation of his followers’
sins.
Approximately
seven hundred years after Christ’s crucifixion, an illiterate but highly
intelligent man by the name of Muhammad, rose from the desert of Arabia to
shackle a large number of human beings to a creed he called Islam. Since
he lacked the credentials of Moses, who claimed to have talked to Allah,
and of Jesus Christ, who claimed he was sired by Allah Himself, Muhammad
needed something “unimaginable” to happen to him so that he could set
himself above all the so-called prophets of the yore.
An
amorous affair afforded him the opportunity to excel the credentials of
the previous prophets: After missing the company of his wife for sometime,
Muhammad was sleeping one night in the house of his cousin, who was a
widow and who lived by herself. When in the morning his Companions wanted
to know from him where he had been all night, he came up with the story of
the night journey, which could not have been witnessed by any human being,
in order to hide his whereabouts from his inquisitors.
None
of Muhammad’s acolytes (known as “Companions” to his followers)
believed him. To convince them, he made Allah to give him the following
revelation:
17:1:
“Glory to (Allah) who did take His
Servant for a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest
Mosque, whose precincts We did bless, - in order that We might show him
some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (all things)”
His
Companions, excepting Abu Bakr, remained unconvinced by the revelation, as
it talked only about Muhammad’s so-called journey by night from the
Mosque of Mecca to the Farthest Mosque, which, according to the verse,
must have existed at an unnamed location in 620 A.D. Abu Bakr came to his
rescue and declared that he believed in what he had told them about his
journey, thus earning for himself the title of “Siddique” i.e. “the speaker of the truth” from his friend, the
Prophet of Islam.
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