Yahya sings the impact of prayer in
another article, “How prayer accelerates the treatment of the sick”. He
talks about an article in Newsweek magazine, which was published as a cover
story in November of 2003. It was an interesting article. Although skeptics had
legitimate opposing views, many believed that prayer facilitates recovery. Yahya
utilized the article to establish the importance of Islamic prayer. He
guarantees a pie in the sky and conveniently quotes a verse from the Quran:
"Call on me and I will answer you. Those who are too proud to worship me
will enter Hell abject" (Qur'an, 40:60).
The verse in question has a two-fold
problem. First, Newsweek magazine talked about Christians and their system of
prayer. If the article is true, Yahya should immediately convert to Christianity
and start praising Jesus. He unknowingly admitted that the power of
Christians’ prayer is effective, too. Yahya further claims that sickness is a
test and one should thank Allah for the treatment received by doctors and
nurses. Thanking Allah and ignoring the hard work of nurses and doctors is
nothing but plain ungratefulness.
Second, in the above-mentioned verse,
Allah has guaranteed that he will respond if he is worshipped. We can safely
assume that there are at least one million out of 1.2 billion Muslims who pray
to Allah faithfully. Why doesn’t Allah answer their calls? Apparently, Muslim
countries are sinking in ignorance and poverty, whereas non-Muslim countries are
prospering in all aspects. Either Allah is favoring those Kafir countries
deliberately or he must have become a Jew or a Christian.
Yahya solicits friendship between people
of the book, i.e., Muslims, Jews and Christians in another article,
“Anti-Semitism is Racism”. He lies blatantly and states, “According to the
Quran, Muslims, Jews and Christians must live in friendship”. He was not
joking and made the comment in a serious note. However, he conveniently forgot
to mention that Mohammad slaughtered 700-800 Jews in Medina, only to test how
sharp his sword was. He does not mention Allah’s command to not make any
friends with Jews and Christians (Q5.51). Yahya is digging his own grave; hell
will be his abode and Allah will hang his skeleton from the sky. How could he
make friends with Christians and Jews, when Allah clearly prohibited this?
Yahya not only stressed for unity among
the people of the book, he also recommended making friends with idolaters. He
continued, “In many verses, friendship is recommended even with the
idolaters.” Interestingly, it did not take long for him to show his ferocious
teeth. He advised reading another of his websites: “islamandbuddhism.com”.
He beats his brain out to understand why some people of western societies
are attracted to Buddhism - an Eastern belief and philosophy. He begs us to read
his site, saying, “Read the perverted philosophy of Buddhism in this site.”
This is the pot calling the kettle
black. Buddhism may not be a great religion but it does not call for killing the
believers of other religions. Neither Buddha slept with concubines. So, Yahya
decides to call Buddhism a perverted religion but he fails to see the perverted
character of Mohammad.
Are these Muslim intellectuals sincerely
attempting to reform Islam? Do they really believe what they write? An honest
answer would be, “NO”. They know it very well. The Quran is not compatible
with the values of modern civilization, science and human rights. They try to
use logic but it ends up with tragic consequences. Logic has no place in faith.
Logical argument requires absolute proof but proof is irrelevant in faith. When
Islamists, the advocates of absurdities, use logic to prove pesky Quranic
verses, it only becomes a laughable farce.
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