The truth shall set us all free, and you may have found it. Jiten Roy --- In mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, "Alternatif2000" wrote: > > `Killing Kafir' by Syed Kamran Mirza - www.ezboard.com > > Killing Kafir > > Syed Kamran Mirza > > In the theological dogmas of Islam there are plenty of unanswered questions > to which most apologists play same old game of sidetracking and putting lame > excuse to the ?out of context?, or ?faulty Quranic translations?. Among > them, I like to discuss one question about which I have been > asking/searching the truth for long time, but till today nobody could give > me satisfactory answer. This is the question of ?killing/slaying? human > being by another human being by the order of Almighty God! Several years > back when I read Holy Quran from beginning to end, I was totally dismayed > when I found Allah telling/advocating to ?kill? another human being by > numerous Ayats. I could not conceive this idea of insisting by Allah to kill > somebody. How come? Question which bothered me most is why an > omnipotent/almighty God will ask for killing human being? Who knows, may be > this advice by Allah to ?kill Kaffirs? is working as the main > fuel/ingredients behind the very spirit of Islamic Jihad?helping create more > and more Osama Bin laden and other potential terrorists? > > My father used to read Quran twice a day (after Fazr and before Magreb) with > so much devotion until his death. One day I asked him if he (my father) > understand what he was reciting with such a melody and devotions. My father? > s answer was negative. My father did not understand a single word of what he > was reciting daily. Now I can count how many thousands of times he uttered > the word ?killing?, of course, with sweet melody. We can even count how many > trillion trillion times this word of ?killing? is being uttered by devout > Muslims throughout the whole world. > > Let me cite an example to illustrate this better: Say I am the owner of a > flock of 100 Cattle. These hundred Cattle are mine, I am the sole owner, and > by virtue/authority of my ownership, I have every right to do, what ever I > want to do with these 100 Cattle. Now, if in the course of time, I find that > some Cattle have become very destructive and wicked up to a degree that > these Cattle are out of control. Then, I have two choices in front of me to > handle these wicked Cattle: (a) tell other good and docile Cattle to kill > those wicked and unruly Cattle by their sharp horns, or (b) because of my > authority, I sell them or killed (Zabai kare khaeyya felba) those cattle and > invite friends to a feast. Quite obviously, I will choose (b), and never > will advocate poor Cattle to kill those wicked Cattle, right? But here in > the God business of correcting wicked people, I really do not find any logic > why Omnipotent God should ask human (who are less than Cattle to God) to > kill other wicked humans. This problem of disobedient by some humans is so > little problem for an Omnipotent/almighty Allah that, it should take only a > wishful thinking for Him to correct all Kaffirs. Does any reader see any > logic to it? So far, I could not get any logical/convincing answer from any > apologists to this very dynamic question. > > I cannot believe that, God can really ask human being to kill/slay another > human being! The center of my question is not the word ?killing,? but WHO > actually is asking for ?Killing.? This ?WHO? is nobody but > OMNIPOTENT/ALMIGHTY GOD. Is Allah telling/advocating to ?kill? another human > being by numerous Qur?anic Ayats? I could not conceive this idea that Allah > is insisting his creation to kill somebody who is also his creation. > Question that bothered me the most is why an Omnipotent/Almighty and > Merciful God will ask for killing human being. Why then He is called a > Merciful? Omnipotent God is not like human being of flesh and blood that He > will take revenge through others. Even the mother of a serial killer will > not ask others to kill her son, rather she will ask for forgiveness. Is > Almighty God crueler or weaker than the mother of a serial killer? > > Of course, if these killing orders (i.e., Ayats like: 9:5, 2.191, 5.33.or > 2.193) have had come from Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) himself then, I would not > ask this question. Because, Prophet Muhammad was also a human being of flesh > and blood, and in need, he also can ask for necessary killings. Apologist?s > example/comparisons with history of mankind --killing by American Civil War, > battle of Kurukhetra or Hitler, Yahya Khan, Tikka Khan, Winston Churchill, > etc., would fit here very well. Because, these are simply earthly (parthive) > happenings and humans are not omnipotent/almighty by any standard. Human > cannot achieve something simply by wishful thinking like an Omnipotent God. > But God of course can achieve something simply by His wish. As we are told > in Quran that, ?Of course if Allah (swt) wills He can create anything just > by saying ?Qun? (Be) and it exists. Likewise Allah (swt) can destroy at > will.? If we are to believe the text of preceding quotation by Maoulanas > then we cannot find any validity of asking by God to kill anybody. God > Himself can kill them by His killer Angel AZRAEL. Or, Omnipotent God simply > can correct every anomaly by His wishes, period. He should not need anybody? > s help. > > Another new question has generated by the Qur?anic Ayat quoted by most > Apologists. That is, ?Let there be no compulsion in religion? (Quran-2: > 256). This Ayat is used repeatedly by all apologists like a broken record to > claim Islam?s tolerance to others, although, there are hundreds of Qur?anic > Ayats and Sahih hadiths (which apologists hardly disclose) which prove > otherwise. My humble questions here to all apologists are: What is the > punishment of an apostate as per Islamic Sharia? Isn?t the punishment of an > apostate is death by stoning? Why in Saudi Arabia all other religious > activities except Islam are completely prohibited? Why very recently Saudi > Government has closed Shiite Mosque in Saudi Arabia? Why then early > propagators of Islam had to fight so many bloody battles both defensively > and offensively? > > What is the difference between the code of King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia > (2900 B.C): Killing for revenge, i. e., ?life for life, hand for hand, eye > for eye, ears for ears, tooth for tooth and wounds equal for equal?, and the > Allah?s Guidance of Qur?anic Ayat: 5:45, i.e. ?life for life, hand for hand, > eye for eye, ear for ear, tooth for tooth and wounds equal for equal.? Do we > see any similarities between the judgment of King Hammurabi (a human), and > Omnipotent Allah? Here in this decree of judgement, who probably copied from > whom? > > Most important and mysterious questions for us to ponder are: Why Muhammad > (pbuh), the prophet of God, needed to insist/ask people to fight/kill fellow > people violently? And why did he lure Islamic believers that they will get > Jannat el-Ferdous if they kill kaffirs? Why on the other hand, another > Prophet of the same God Jesus Christ said, ?He who live by the sword will > die by the sword? or ?If you get slapped on your right cheek then give your > left cheek for the another slap.? Why Jesus asked people to conquer the > hearts of enemies by their love? Why did Mahatma Gandhi asked people not to > attack/kill the enemies but to tolerate all tortures? Was Gandhi or Jesus a > better person than the omnipotent who goes by the name Rahman-ur-Rahim (Kind > and forgiving)? > > As a child, we were told by the clerics back home that Almighty Allah has > 100 names. The two names show up side-by-side in the book Niam-ul-Qur?an (By > Moulvi Mohammad Shamsul Huda) page 20. One of the names is Ya-Gaffaru (Oh, > forgiver!). The other name mentioned next to it is Ya-Kah-haru (Oh, big > punisher). The Mullahs of the world should know better that the Almighty > couldn?t be both all at the same time. Whether we like it or not, Jesus > seems to have opted for the forgiving part of Allah, whereas, our > Payare-Nabi Mustafa Karim (pbuh) had shown his proclivity to mete out > punishment and thus opting for the title Kah-haru. No wonder so many > bystanders Arab had to be murdered in the broad daylight because they had > their nagging doubts about the divinity of Muhammad (pbuh). > > The bottom line in this ongoing debate is the following: It would be quite > unjust for the CREATOR to approve killing of his creations by his own > creation. If He thinks that some creations are becoming unruly, and are > deviating from the Seerut-al-Mustaquim, then, why can?t He come down from > his Arash to this lowly place call Arda (Earth) and do the killing Himself? > He most certainly has ever-ready Azrael under His arm. But could it be that > poor Azrael is too tired doing his job from the time immemorial! In that > case, Allah is very wise to tell us that we men should kill another fellow > human being because in His infinite wisdom He thought we are the right > persons for this job. What a cruel joke this Almighty is playing on us! > |
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