This is an excellent article. Here, the author has superbly narrated her quest for God, how she got attracted to Islam and in the end what made her to leave Islam. There is so much to learn and think. All parents should also read this for how to be the best parents. Enjoy reading! -Admin
Aisha Christine says: April 4, 2013 at 11:27 am
My dear brothers and sisters in humanity,
I am an ex-convert to Islam, thankfully saved from slavery to an evil cult leader of the 7th century by the love and devotion of my family. I write to you today because I feel that it is time for me to come forward and share with you a little bit of my experiences with Islam over the past couple of years.
I was hesitant at first about sharing my story, as I doubted whether my writing would make any difference. I haven’t had the opportunity to study the errors and atrocities in the Qur’an and Hadith nearly as thoroughly as the authors of great articles here on FFI, so my story is unlikely to surprise you with new information. Similarly, having never lived in a Muslim country I cannot speak of the effects of a Muslim society- the stories of war, injustice, violence, discrimination, and sheer religious stupidity that seem to abound from these places. I have not personally had any terrible experiences with Islam or Muslims that will shock you. So I thought, at first, that my writing here was unnecessary.
Upon reflection, I have come to realize that this is precisely why I have to put in my two cents. As a Muslim, when I was faced with stories of the apostasy of ex-Muslims, I often found in the dramatic nature of events surrounding their decision an excuse to dismiss them. They had witnessed a war, or been abused, or been manipulated for political reasons — they had all experienced the stupidity of ignorant so-called Muslims. Their stories did not faze my faith in the least- I felt sorry for them for having had to go through such trials, but reproached them for being unable to see (everyone say it with me now) “the difference between the people and the religion”. Well, the Muslims surrounding me were all of the kindest, most accepting people I had met (both before and after my conversion), so I guess I fell into the trap that I had been so set on avoiding- judging the religion by the people.
My story is not outlandish like something out of a movie, but I am writing in the hopes that even one convert or would-be convert to Islam will find it easier to relate to than other more sensational tales. Who knows, perhaps a liberating seed of doubt will then be planted.
Before Islam
I was born Catholic, but was never really practicing apart from the occasional trip to church. As a young teenager I became exposed to people of many different sects of Christianity. After analyzing and comparing their beliefs, I saw a lack of logic in them that brought me to the conclusion that man had invented religion. This did not affect my life, as I had never been a strong believer after early childhood, and my morality had never been based on religion. However, I remained fascinated with the idea of faith and how people could believe something without proof with so much confidence. I enjoyed talking to religious people and trying to understand them, and in the meantime I varied between phases of atheist and agnostic points of view.
Love Blinds
I first became exposed to Islam when I started university, and made a few really good Muslim friends. Among these friends was a boy who would become my best friend and whom I would later fall in love with. (I know what you’re thinking- she converted for love! Not the case. But this is an important part of the story so pay attention- especially if you’re a girl). Despite calling himself Muslim and speaking proudly of his religion, (let’s call him Mahbub) Mahbub was hardly a practicing Muslim. He had many close girl friends, loved to go clubbing, and hardly ever prayed. It was because of this that I was so upset with my parents when they told me that they could not allow me to date him solely because of his religion. They tried to explain that the differences in our way of life and culture would eventually ruin our lives and furthermore that Muslim men were controlling and misogynistic. The idea seemed ridiculous to me, racist even, and because I had always had a great relationship with my parents their disapproval hurt, angered and confused me.
But it was too late. Or that’s how it felt anyways. I was already in love and after being fed countless Romeo & Juliet stories (with happier endings of course) throughout my life, I felt that we were simply misunderstood and my parents would see that eventually. So in love and full of faith in things working out in the end, I continued to date him, in secret. He never risked telling his parents about us of course, as he knew that they would never allow him to date.
In practice we were actually perfect for each other, and personality-wise had few if any problems throughout our relationship. It was all rainbows and butterflies. The problems we faced came from a different angle.
Soon after we started dating he told me that he would only marry a Muslim woman, simply because he thought that any other marriage would mean too much conflict in ideals. He said he would never want me to convert for him however, but only out of my own faith. I told him that I would probably never develop faith in any religion because my mind was simply not programmed for that. We obviously saw this as a problem, but love blinds and he went on having faith that I would one day “see the light”, while I was sure that eventually he would change his mind.
We dated for almost two years, and in this time his expectations had imposed so many rules on my life so gradually that I had barely even noticed. I first stopped drinking, then eating pork. Next came wearing tank tops or anything that showed off skin above my knees. I had to give up swimming because of bathing suits (unless it was in an all-girls pool). Then I could not hug other boys or dance in public. I am sure you must be thinking how much of an idiot I am to be so easily controlled, and I don’t blame you– I wonder how I got there myself. But it was actually not very hard thinking back. First, many of the things I gave up never meant much to me anyway- I didn’t really drink or like pork, I am a fairly modest dresser by nature, and I am usually much too self-conscious to dance in public. Second, he never actually demanded these things of me- he would just manipulate my emotions by becoming very quiet and cold towards me if I crossed any of these lines. I confronted him many times of course, and we both agreed that it was unfair of him to expect these things from me, but he came from the angle of “well does (blank) really mean more to you than me…?” And of course it didn’t. I loved him; I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him… so what if I couldn’t (blank) because his cultural boundaries made him uncomfortable with it? In the end I always decided it was not worth the fights and another rule was established.
I want to make it clear that Mahbub is a really good person with a great heart, and he (almost) always treated me with utmost love and respect. He was always there for me and we made many lovely memories. Compared with other relationships I knew about, he was an angel of a boyfriend. My point here is not to say that “Muslim men are bad”; it’s not true and you can’t convince me of it. But there are three conclusions that I have come to because of this experience.
A Muslim person no matter how liberal and non-practicing, as long as they proudly call themselves Muslim, always has the potential of becoming religious even to an extreme. During the course of our relationship, I wasn’t the only one to have new rules imposed on me. Mahbub became gradually more and more religious, giving up clubbing, starting to pray 5 times a day, eating only halal food, and separating himself from close friendships with (other) girls.
A romantic relationship between people of different faiths cannot work if one of them is Muslim. Mahbub is neither controlling nor misogynistic by nature, far from it, but when it comes to the expectations of appropriate behavior a Muslim person must follow the Qur’an… and it is the religion itself that is extremely controlling and misogynistic, among other things. When we met, Mahbub would not care if for example I wore a short dress with spaghetti straps- but the more religious he became, the less appropriate my normal behavior seemed, and the more uncomfortable he became with it.
I have come to realize that one of the reasons that it was so easy for me to accept Islam is that I was already living under many of its rules. Of course, the notion that there was a greater purpose and reason for these restrictions than simply trying to smooth over cultural differences with my boyfriend was a welcome idea.
The Conversion Story
Mahbub and I often discussed and debated religion, but it was not through him that I really learned about Islam. I became more and more interested in the religion when I began having debates about it with a very religious girlfriend. She seemed to always have good answers for my questions, which were mostly regarding the morality and wisdom behind certain Islamic customs and rules. The more we discussed it, the less harmless and more logical the religion appeared. My point of view was further shaken when I read about the “Scientific Miracles of the Qur’an”. For the first time, I began to consider that Islam might be not only a good way of life, but a divinely ordained one as well. I studied the religion more closely then, devoting more time to learning about the Prophet Muhammad and starting to read the Qur’an.
At some point along the way, I stopped questioning the truth of Islam. To this day it is difficult for me to say what exactly caused this silent acceptance, though I suppose the fact that I was only discussing Islam with Muslims might have been a strong factor. They taught me (perhaps innocently) the Westernized peaceful Islam as “true Islam”, and anything that I brought up as evidence contradicting this was dismissed as a cultural or political problem- “this is not Islam”.
I subconsciously decided to accept Islam, but I thought it was something I would not do officially until for a long time. First, I intended to learn everything there was to learn about the religion so that when I had to face my parents I could do so with knowledge and convincing proof. Discussing the matter with my religious girlfriend one day, however, convinced me that my parents would have a very difficult time accepting my decision no matter when I did it, so I agreed that there was no point in waiting. That day, I accepted Islam with her as witness.
Islam means Peace
After my conversion, I felt a sense of peace and happiness that I had never before experienced in my life, and hope to never experience again. This was the peace that came with knowing with full certainty that I was in the right path. Knowing that there was a Creator who was watching over me and who had a plan for me. Knowing that He had in his infinite mercy bestowed me with the Qur’an, an instruction manual for life so that from now on I could always know the right choice and be certain of my decisions. Knowing that earthly problems did not matter at all, because this life would eventually be over and then I could look forward to paradise.
Another major factor that brought me happiness, slightly embarrassing to admit, was that I felt special. I did not have self-esteem problems before, but having somehow been chosen to be shown the correct path by Allah brought me a whole new level of pride. It suddenly seemed that every event of my life, every meeting and decision had somehow been divinely orchestrated to get me to this point of belief. And of course, if Allah had led me here then He must have a great purpose in mind for me- something much greater than my previous goals of career, travel and family. I started dreaming of all the ways that I could contribute to His great religion.
I also felt like I could suddenly “see” after being in the dark for so long. I think this feeling came from the fact that I finally understood the way that religious people around me thought and felt. Also, it definitely seemed like the world was brighter with beliefs that provided me with comfort, certainty and purpose. It was delightful to believe that anything good that came to me was a blessing decreed by Allah, and anything bad was a test that He was giving me to increase my status in Paradise. I understand why Muslims hold on so tightly to their beliefs, I figured I would rather die than go back to disbelieving.
After officially becoming a convert, I was thrust into the Muslim community, which welcomed me with arms wide open. My close Muslim friends were bursting with happiness when they found out. When they introduced me to new Muslim brothers and sisters, they did so with a deep tone of pride as the other person gaped at me in awe and admiration. Mahbub and I broke up because I wanted to do everything the proper Islamic way, but this brought neither of us sadness as we still planned to get married after completing our degrees. An unexpected blessing after converting was the sense of belonging and acceptance to this great community of people. Muslims I had never seen before and others that I barely knew were congratulating me and telling me how I was an inspiration for them. I did not feel worthy of the admiration at all, but was glad that I might be bringing others closer to the deen [religion].
I had begun wearing the headscarf and clothing that would reveal no more skin than my face and hands. I devoted a lot of time to my Islamic education. I focused on learning the prayers in Arabic and watching online lectures on Islam by respected scholars. I even enrolled in a free online Arabic course. I did not need any encouragement to do any of these things; Islam was simply addictive. Life became slightly more complicated as I had to schedule my day around the five prayers and I was now limited to eating halal food, but it never felt difficult—it was a small price to pay after all, to please Allah who had blessed me so much. Besides, I was sure that there were good reasons for these laws and that following them would be to my benefit, both here and in the afterlife.
Muslim Way of Thinking
Becoming a part of the Muslim community provided me with some insight into what Islam does to people’s minds. Most of the following things even I found a little off when I witnessed them, yet sadly they never made me doubt the truth of Islam.
Muslims were very generous to me, and many strangers even gave me gifts of beautiful scarves or clothing. A few of these I know were given from the heart, but the rest came along with serious requests that I include the person in my prayers. It was done in such a way that it felt oddly like a transaction, and I am sure that this is how they thought of it: gifts for prayers.
I had not realized how obsessed Muslims are with the calling of others to Islam (dawah) until a Muslim friend encouraged me to talk to my roommate about Islam and invite her to Qur’an study circles with me, simply because I told her how accepting my roommate had been of my conversion. I was also commended that talking to my parents about Islam was great dawah. In terms of education, I found it surprising how highly popular and easily available dawah courses were. I later understood the reason for this when I learned that it is each Muslim’s personal duty to perform dawah. It was also interesting to see the pleasure that Muslims derived from finding evidence that Christianity is wrong and from wondering in amazement how Christians can believe such absurdities.
The Us versus Them mentality promoted by Islam was also clear. Even after a short time as a Muslim, I began to think this way myself. When I saw someone who I identified as a Muslim, having never met him or her before, I felt a certain sense of kinship. I even started to accept the idea that it is preferable to give charity to Muslims than non-Muslims. I saw non-Muslims who questioned Islam as lost or stubborn people and felt sorry for them for their lack of understanding. Unless of course they spoke badly of Islam, in which case my pity turned to anger at their ignorance and spreading of lies. Of course that was the only reason anyone would criticize Islam, out of ignorance.
I always affirmed to non-Muslims that there was definitely freedom to question in Islam. I think I was in denial myself however, because I should have known better. Once, when searching online for evidence that the Qur’an had not been changed, I accidentally stumbled upon a website by Christians that claimed otherwise. I would not have paid attention to such a website, but it had been done so cleverly that I did not even realize that they were finding faults in my religion until I had been reading for a while. I was intrigued by their claims, and though no doubt entered my heart I decided I wanted to learn the “real” story. I sent this website to a Muslim friend, hoping to get some feedback to explain how this website was twisting or fabricating facts. She replied with a very upset email saying that we should not waste time looking at such websites. I calmed her down and told her it was okay to look at the other side of the argument so that we could defend our faith even better. After this, she sent me information regarding the history of the collection of the Qur’an, but she never directly addressed the claims on that website.
When trying to explain the death penalty on apostasy to a non-Muslim friend, a Muslim friend of mine defended it by saying of course every apostate did not have to be killed, this was just for cases when the person went around bashing and trying to hurt Islam. As if this made it perfectly justified. The sad part is, at the time I agreed. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think either of us would have ever condemned an apostate to death, she is a sweet, peaceful girl- but the fact that the idea that it could ever happen felt alright deeply disturbs me.
When I told my parents about my conversion, they were extremely upset to put it mildly. After trying to change my mind with all the arguments that they knew, they started a campaign to research Islam in depth. I was told that when I went home I would have to read many books that proved Islam was wrong. I talked to a Muslim Chaplain about this, seeking advice. I assured her that I was very strong in my faith and these books could never weaken it. I knew it was a waste of time to read them because they could contain nothing but lies and hate for beautiful Islam, but I felt that if I refused it would be an insult to my parents who had taken the time to find these things for me. She said in no uncertain terms that I could not allow myself to read such “hate literature”- that refusing to read it might be an insult to my parents, but reading was definitely an insult towards God. I did not agree with this at all, how could God be insulted by what I read?
The self-censorship soon started, though. I had been told that the verse that instructs men to beat their wives in the Qur’an was merely a symbolic commandment, that somehow what it really meant was that men could not physically harm their wives. This was proven by a single Hadith that I was never shown, and to this day still have not read, yet somehow I bought it. It was a little harder to defend it that way to outsiders regardless, especially my parents. Highly frustrated, I one day thought why would Allah, by allowing this misleading verse to be part of the Qur’an, make it so difficult for others to see the beauty of Islam? Why would He be so unclear that it seemed like the book was saying the complete opposite of what He wanted? I almost voiced this out-loud to a friend… and then it hit me what a terrible sinful statement it would be, doubting the wisdom of Allah. The most I could bring myself to do was wonder out loud what was the wisdom behind the wording of this verse.
Mahbub and I remained best friends, but it was soon indicated to me that this close friendship was wrong. According to Islam, there should be no friendship between different genders. I agreed with this view in general, but I tried to defend our friendship as an exception. I thought, such friendships are forbidden to prevent that the people will fall in love, but well we were already in love so there was no sense in ending the friendship now. However, I was encouraged to separate myself from him with two arguments. First, I was assured that Allah loves us when we give up things we love for His sake. Taking Mahbub out of my life might be very painful, but surely I must have faith that Allah would replace whatever I gave up with something better, that is how He worked. Second, if Mahbub was hurt and felt alone without me then this could drive him closer to Allah and to become a better Muslim. In fact, I was told I should make it very clear to him that the reason we could no longer be close was that I felt that he was not very serious about religion. This was sure to motivate him to practice Islam with more devotion. This kind of manipulation felt wrong to me, how could I deliberately cause someone I loved pain to change their level of religiosity? Then again, it would be better for him in the end…. We did tone down our friendship, though we tried to do it gradually and were never able to completely give it up. The change in him was evident—he always prayed five times a day now, devoted a lot of time to watching Islamic lectures, and even grew a beard. His own parents began to refer to him as an extremist. I was so proud of him… and now I only feel guilt and sadness over the part I played in his change.
One of the strangest ways of thinking I encountered was when a Muslim friend told me that she was jealous when she saw how much suffering I was experiencing with the disapproval of my parents. She said that she would not like to be in my position, but that she knew that every headache I contracted and every tear I shed was increasing my level in Paradise. She testified that Allah tests the true believers the most, and she could not help but be jealous that, after starting out with a clean slate of no sins I was immediately rising up in Paradise levels. This is not something that she said to me to make me feel better, this is the way that Islam taught her to think. She spoke of the companions of the Prophet who would cry when their lives became too easy because they thought Allah no longer loved them. This felt twisted to me, and I was sure that I would give up the higher levels of Paradise if it meant that my relationship with my parents would be healed.
I want to emphasize something again. You should all be so lucky as to be around the quality of Muslims that I’ve had in my life. They are good, loving, peaceful souls, simply trying their best to be good Muslims. It is clear to me now that all of these twisted ideals and morals that they carry are solely a product of their submitting to Islam. The more religious a Muslim is, in terms of knowledge and practical application of the religion, the more twisted their mind and morality becomes. So, you may encounter good people that call themselves Muslims- in my experience, it is very likely. Please do not judge the religion by the people.
The House of Cards begins to crumble
As I delved into learning and practicing Islam, there were definitely things I stumbled upon that would have made any reasonable person doubt the legitimacy of the religion. Unfortunately, whenever I found one of these things, I programmed myself to find an excuse for it and put it aside. After all, if even one thing was wrong then I knew that would mean everything was wrong… it would mean all the peace and fulfillment I had felt was invalid. And I was not willing to let that feeling go, not for anything.
I first noticed how some of the information that had been given to me before converting to Islam was slowly revealed as inaccurate, without much excuse or explanation for why it had not been fully revealed before. For example, I had been told outright that women had the right to divorce in Islam (one of the many rights given to us by Islam, subhanallah). When discussing it after my conversion however, I was told without ceremony that women couldn’t initiate a divorce. I was confused, and they tried to smooth this over by saying that it was “sort of” like a divorce, but worked in a slightly different way… Why, I wondered, didn’t they explain it this way before? In another case, I was told also that Aisha loved the Prophet so much that she never remarried after his death. The fact that according to the Qur’an, had she done so, both her and her new husband would have been committing a most major sin… was left out of the story.
I was also confused by the authenticity of Hadiths as measured in discussions. I had of course been taught about the collection and classification of Hadiths, and felt the Muslim pride that unlike Christian writings ours remained authentic and unchanged. However, it seemed that in a discussion authenticity was simply measured by the light under which the narration portrayed Islam. Whenever a Hadith went against the picture of Islam being promoted it was said to be “rare”, “questionable”, “fabricated”, or at the very least mistranslated. I was disoriented; I thought Bukhari was the most authentic? Well he was of course, but there were still some weak Hadiths in his collection. The more I asked the more it seemed… “some” meant “a lot” of weak hadiths. When the opposite was true and the narration fit the version of Islam being promoted, the most rare Hadiths were put forward as irrefutable evidence.
As I said earlier, I devoted a great deal of time to watching lectures by scholars online. I simply loved the way that they explained and justified Islam. However, it is a curious thing that I could not find any videos that I could send my parents to show them how Islam really was. Every single video seemed to have at least one extremist point that either I myself rejected and overlooked as an incorrect view of Islam, or that I agreed with but knew that my parents would be deeply disturbed to learn. Looking back I can’t believe my own gullibility at this point. I guess I really believed that somehow I was the only one who understood the spirit of true Islam, even better than these scholars sometimes! Then again, my other option was to entertain the idea that I might be wrong about everything…hardly appealing.
There were other ridiculous things that didn’t make sense to me… like when I found out that the Prophet said to eat with you right hand, because the devil eats with his left hand and we should not imitate him. Or the fact that it was crucial to keep track of the times I went to the washroom during the day so that I would know whether I had broken my wudu or not. All these things I put away into the box in my mind labeled “Allah knows best”. I have renamed that box “denial”.
When the time came for me to go visit my parents, I was advised by a religious friend and a local shaykh to not go. Everyone insisted that I could never break ties with my family because it was un-Islamic. However, these two people said that putting myself in a situation where I would be under such significant stress spiritually was also against Islam and a sin. They said I should wait, and let more time pass before I faced them. I did not think for a minute that there was anything that my parents could do or say that would lead me to stop believing. So I was never worried about that, and was perhaps slightly annoyed at these advisors for lacking confidence in the strength of my faith. Anyway, my family meant too much for me to take the advice of staying away from them. I felt I had to do everything in my power to show them the true Islam, and I did not want to do anything to risk losing them forever. I did however, go with a plan to basically run away from home if things got too unbearable. I was under no circumstances willing to give up my religion.
The Man Behind the Curtain
When I reached home, my parents devoted all of their time and energy to showing me the things that they had learned about Islam. I was taken off guard when everything they showed me was directly from the Qur’an and Hadith. I could no longer say that they were being lied to by Islamophobes. Before this I had not been exposed to the Medinah period writings, and did not know how to explain many of the cruel and violent things that I was reading. God knows I tried, though.
Every time I was told to read a new verse or narration I would read a few different translations of it, then read the surrounding text to get some idea of the context, and finally read different Tafsirs’ (books that interpret the Qur’an) interpretation of it. All along the process, I hoped to find the correct context of the verse, the one that would redeem it. Sadly, I was disappointed time and time again- especially when the Tafsirs’ interpretation of the verse revealed it to be even more cruel and violent than the verse itself had seemed. Nevertheless, I refused to give an inch and simply told my parents that I did not know what the correct meaning of these verses was but that surely there was an answer. They were unfazed as they asked me to look at the next verse… at which point the cycle would restart.
I guess my parents were trying to show me how evil the teachings of Islam could be, to prove that they could not have a divine origin. I simply would not allow myself to question the truth of Islam though, so all I could do was try to justify these evil teachings as good. I kept a growing list of concerns to ask my Muslim contacts, hoping that they would know the correct way to look at these teachings.
The first doubt that I admitted to myself was regarding a verse that my parents had not even shown me. While looking for context to what they had wanted me to see, I stumbled upon Surah 33, verse 53. The tafsir for this verse explained that it was revealed because some guests lingered in the Prophet’s house long after the meal was finished, which annoyed the Prophet.
“O Ye who believe! Enter not the dwellings of the Prophet for a meal without waiting for the proper time, unless permission be granted you. But if ye are invited, enter, and, when your meal is ended, then disperse. Linger not for conversation. Lo! that would cause annoyance to the Prophet, and he would be shy of (asking) you (to go); but Allah is not shy of the truth…”(33:53)
This just seemed too silly, and honestly like something that someone with multiple personality disorder might say. Would God really be concerned with the time that one spent in the Prophet’s house talking? If the Prophet must really be protected from all annoyance, then why not make his job easier and lead everyone to accept Islam? Would that not make a more significant difference in his life than restricting visiting hours at his home? Anyway, couldn’t Muhammad do that himself? It hardly seemed to fit God’s job description.
After having these sinful thoughts, I tried to admonish myself and take them back. It was useless. Once I opened the gate for doubt, all the evidence that had been building up in the denial storage boxes in my mind flooded into my consciousness. I began to see the man behind the curtain everywhere I looked. Within the same verse, Muhammad made laws that prohibited his wives from talking to men without a curtain separating them, and also made it unlawful for them to marry after his death. Since most of them were teenagers at the time, this seemed a very cruel ruling.
I grew more and more frustrated as I was unable to get satisfying answers to my questions. Websites that promoted Islam offered the same propaganda I had been fed and made no mention of the many doubtful verses that I had by this point accumulated. The few that mentioned them gave far from satisfactory explanations in an obvious effort to sugarcoat the truth. I emailed a friend asking about some of these verses. My friend forwarded my questions to a more religious friend. That person contacted their Muslim Chaplain, who then asked a local shaykh. I began to realize… the Qur’an is not clear at all. How can it be that God would send down a message to guide us, so unclear that we would need to rely on man to understand it? Even reading highly scholarly books of interpretation we would not have full understanding- we would have to obtain doctorates in religion and go to Medinah University it seemed to truly understand the “context”. Even then, educated scholars differed on many key issues. Just the existence of many Islamic sects was proof enough that there was great room for interpretation. So how could I know who had the right interpretation? I would have to pick one school of thought and pray that it was the right one (Muhammad said that out of the 73 sects that would emerge, all but one would be in hellfire… so odds were not on my side). I thought the whole point of God sending a message to humanity was to guide us all, not to create confusion as we are forced to follow corrupt and fallible men in their interpretations.
When the answers finally came back through the email chain, I wished that they had gone even farther up the ladder of knowledge. For example, I asked about a Hadith from Bukhari that states,
“If at all there is evil omen, it is in the horse, the woman and the house. A lady is to be warded off. And the Statement of Allah: ‘truly, among your wives and your children, there are enemies for you (i.e may stop you from the obedience of Allah)’.“
The answer that came back clarified that the translation here is hideous. What the Hadith actually intends is “a caution to man that he has great responsibility to the women of his family and if he doesn’t do what he is supposed to -to support them and give them their equal and just rights, that he will suffer.” The translation I obtained was from an Islamic site of Hadith books, so I wonder what Muslim translated “man must fulfill responsibilities to women” into “women are evil; stay away from them”. Hmm…
It was in these days of mental and spiritual turmoil that I received an email forward from a Muslim friend, announcing that a special date was coming up in the Muslim calendar. The Prophet had said that those who fast on this day would have all of their sins of the next year forgiven! Imagine that bargain… as long as you don’t eat during daytime of one day, you pretty much have a free pass to sin for a year. And if this happens every year… well I wondered what is the point of trying to be a good Muslim when all you have to do is remember to fast one day out of the year. This ludicrous idea did nothing to help me hold on to the faith that I was fighting for.
I tried prayer, and I tried silencing my doubts, but nothing seemed to be working. As a final desperate attempt to re-strengthen my faith I decided to research that one thing that had seemed so miraculous to me so long ago: Qur’an and Science. Previously, I had taken propaganda at its word and believed that the Qur’an truly talked of all these scientific discoveries long before their time. I was deeply disturbed when I actually examined these supposedly miraculous verses and found that most of them actually contradicted science! With great “analysis” and “interpretation” the scholars somehow played around with the language to try to make it agree with science, but even after all this work the connections were weak at best.
I started thinking about hell and the kind of place that it was, the kind of torture that took place therein. I thought of people who perform torture here on Earth, and how disgusted I was by them. The torture of hell was so much worse than any possible earthly torture, though. I wondered who deserved to go to hell and concluded that the answer was nobody. I would even have trouble sending someone like Hitler, who to me is the epitome of evil, to that place. But according to the Qur’an, all non-believers were going to hell. My sweet grandma who never did anybody any harm and prayed to the Virgin Mary every day…would be sent to hell. In fact, the same fate awaited practically everyone I had known before starting university. But I would never send even Hitler to that place. Did that make me more compassionate than God? That was impossible; a true God would have to be the most compassionate being in existence.
It is said in the Qur’an that Allah increases the disease of disbelievers, abandons or misguides them, and even seals their hearts. Contrast this with my parents’ reaction when I disobeyed them and converted to a religion that they did not approve of. They could have taken an easy course and either disowned me or accepted my decision without questioning it. Instead, their love was so strong that they dedicated all their energy and resources to bringing me back to what they believed to be the right path. How is it possible that my parents’ love for me is greater than God’s for mankind? It is not. A true God would have to be the most loving being in existence, and He would never give up on his creation or even worse misguide them!
The Truth Hurts… At First
Finally admitting that I no longer believed in Islam to myself and my family thrust me into the deepest state of depression that I have ever experienced. My world shattered around me and I lost even the will to live. I will not go into details about my experience in those first weeks, but only to say that it really speaks about the degree of power and mind control of this cult called Islam. I have the utmost respect for those apostates who were born Muslims; I cannot imagine the difficulties that you must have faced for your decision, both within yourselves and from those around you.
Thankfully, I had my family with me for support. Likewise, the Faith Freedom website was infinitely helpful; stories of other apostates helped me to feel less alone, and intelligent, well-written articles helped to quiet the guilt that tried to tell me that my sinning had led me away from Allah.
Some time has passed now, and I feel no sadness about having left this cult. I feel free and grateful to have been given a second chance at life. I no longer live with the mind-numbing tranquility that I had as a Muslim, but I am once again free to think for myself and live life as a real person instead of a robot- worse yet, as a slave to an ignorant and cruel man.
I knew that any future for Mahbub and I would be impossible if I left Islam and, though our relationship had no influence in my acceptance of Islam, the fear of losing him was definitely a major motivation to hold on to my faith near the end of that traumatic period. The end of our relationship has been difficult for me to handle, but I have come to accept that we want very different things, and we will both be happier making our own paths in life. It saddens me now to see how much he has changed for Islam… he no longer listens to music, watches dance shows or enjoys the same silly humor. I am sure he feels like a better person than ever for his devotion, and I think this is the great tragedy. I finally understand why he insisted when we met that he would only marry a Muslim woman– I was too innocent then to understand what being Muslim really meant, but now I say with confidence that I could never marry a Muslim man.
Most of my Muslim friends accepted my decision without any interrogation, and the ones that were close to me before my conversion continue to treat me with sincere love and respect. This is not the case for my very religious friend. I am afraid that the disappointment I have brought her, having failed Allah’s test for me, is too great for her to bear; after having treated me like a true sister while I was a Muslim, she now no longer talks to me. Likewise, a couple of Muslim male friends appear to disapprove of my decision, having also disappeared from my life. That is okay; I do not need these people in my life.
What do I believe now? I have not joined another religion, nor am I likely to. I don’t refute the existence of God, nor do I claim it. I accept that there are some things that I cannot know and that the mysteries of life are part of what make it beautiful. I believe in the goodness of people and the awesome power of our minds and hearts. I doubt the existence of an after-life, but I am in no way afraid of the possibility. In any case, I think for now I will focus on making this world and this life my paradise.
Thanks for taking the time to read my story. I hope that someone will learn from my experiences and avoid the same mistakes. -Aisha
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God is a word , a mere word for atheists but it is everything for faithfuls. Is God such a need that man cannot live his/her life without it ? Not at all, a significant chunk of society is almost bereft of it and enjoys the moments of living. We call them atheists and communists. They have strong reasons behind ignoring the concept of God. We may deny their logic but when the religious persons fight over this concept of God and judge the authenticity of it from the angle of their own beliefs and deride other beliefs, it creates doubt in the minds of the common people as to what is the real God ? When differences are created among various faiths rather than encouraging assimilation and extraction of essence of variant religious stuff, people get perplexed and become a confused lot. When a constant fear of hell is reflected in religious texts, the minds of gullible persons become deluded and fearful. When someone is fearful and dreaded , can he /she live a peaceful and calm life ? On the other hand, concept of paradise is a kind of bribe rather than a real reward for pursuing a virtuous life. Real God surfaces when there is not a trace of fear in the mind and heart, when you have no inkling of reward whatsoever, when there is not a trace of difference in your heart and mind and you welcome everyone as your own soul, as your own being, when a person is as clean in his mind and heart as an innocent kid. The real God is not outside us, He is spread from our top to bottom. Real God is present when a man looks simply as man and not as Hindu, Muslim,Christian, Jew , Sikh and so on. All tags after birth are man made and when man is without tags, he is closer to God. If a religious person cannot pursue faith in such a manner, then an atheist is a far better human being and he will definitely share love of God. Actually God is synonymous of a good living, decent conduct, impartial outlook and unselfish love. We can grasp God only when our mind is as free as a bird so that it can fly into the infinite space hindrance-free, breaking away all kinds of man made shackles that bind him no end. If these traits are found in an atheist, he must be welcome to spread his vision by all means because in reality essence is everything and one man calls it God whereas the other, the essence. We have imagined a miniature of God that we call as soul, so names do not matter at all. In what way and form we see God and pursue Him is more important. To the interfaith marriage seekers, somewhere else also, I have suggested some stuff to ponder over before they decide their relationship binding on themselves. With some variation, I repeat them:- 1. Since Love is synonymous with God, they should worship Love just as they worship God because when one is perfect in love, his prayer is complete even without visiting any church, temple or mosque. So the couple should give priority to Love which is Godlike or God. 2. Both husband and wife should treat each other as an equal and respect mutual sentiments. It is all right if both of them come to terms with professing a similar faith but if one of them wishes to adhere a different faith, then other partner should accommodate his partner by all means for the sake of his/her love. 3. Since human is born free and everything alien was an enclosure to him, one should not discard humanity at any cost. First of all, we all are humans, then are the adherents of faiths, nationals, castes ,etc. etc. 4. It has been observed that even plants deviate from growing in a straight line, so being humans we must be flexible in our whole approach in order to live a happier life. 5. It is better if we alter our belief patterns to bring forth a greater compatibility and practicality. From the days when men were savages, so much have altered and reformed, we have adopted so many new things and discarded so many things. So in a like manner, we must change ourselves. 6. Since interfaith relationships will create a kind of melting pot and it will be a litmus test for the couples to prove to the world the best of whatever they have assimilated in their respective religions, the whole world will set it’s eyes upon you to judge, so you have to adopt something alien and also discard something old at the same time. 7. On this website, I have been constantly reading about BBS( Bris, baptism and Sunnat ) and I have to add that Hindus have a thread ceremony in prominent castes. It would be better if there is no compulsion on the offsprings of interfaith marriage couples. 8. Dara Shukoh, eldest son of emperor Shah Jahan had genuinely contemplated upon the assimilation of Hindu and Muslim religious thought but his fanatic brother Aurangjeb got him executed and unfortunately such a wonderful dream could not become a reality. The interfaith couples should emulate the life of such a large hearted person and should come with such fantastic dreams to evolve an utterly human religion for the benefit of the while humanity. 9. It would also be better if the couple are atheists as there would be no hindrance of religions and their lives will be smoother to live. 10. To sum up, all persons regardless of faiths should ponder over the fact that there is no use in being narrow minded faithfuls, instead we must refine the faculty of our mind to gather honey from all directions. To us our religion and to you your religion could have been said in ancient times when we were enclosed in a limited sphere, now the face of the earth has been entirely altered due to rapid communication system, free expression and constant mingling of humanity in a bigger way. So we may now safely say that to us are all religions irrespective of area, nationality, race, caste etc. etc. The humanity needs a world religion containing the extract of whatever is meaningful, glorious, pious, lofty and humanitarian in whatever religions. Also the humanity needs an altogether broad vision of God and for that all minds must be always in a busy mode in churning out something moment to moment to bring out such an stuff to be compatible to all of us one day.
Concept of God was introduced out of fear in human mind and in a due course of time, many persons no matter we call them Rishis or Prophets or Saints contributed greatly to this phenomenon. Many religions were evolved around this concept and it’s attributes were illustrated in different different colours in so many parts of the world. So much human endeavor is exhausted on this sphere along with other practical things of the world. No other sphere has been made confused than this and due to this some crooked people exploit the masses no end. Fear of hell and temptation of heaven have been so much created in human minds that they cannot live the actual lives in a balanced and calm manner. Contrast to this, see the lives of birds, animals and even plants. How graceful their sounds are, how graceful their actions are. They are bereft of fear of death and it is a irony that all efforts of religious endeavor is to overcome this fear from the minds of humans. They are very clam and do not hanker after much, whatever they receive they take and live in satisfaction. When their bellies are filled, they do not run after other creatures to snatch the morsels out of their mouths. Moreover, when death comes, they die peacefully without a cry. So real bliss that we seek from our abundant prayers to God is already available to animals, birds and plants. On the other hand, we humans do not really enjoy our lives, we are always engaged in incessant fights over one and something. It is a fact that Real God is with these blessed creatures who live in constant touch with Him even though humans look down upon them thinking them as non-conscious of their lives. We humans can learn a lot of things from the ways of these creatures. We humans must ,for a certain time, shun all our religious books and just watch the lives of these creatures and emulate them which can only instill some peace into our lives. It is an irony that no matter how we boast about human progress in so many spheres, we have been just laggard in art of living. While every other species is crystal clear about their living, we have deliberately made our living a vague, complicated and unhappy. What a pity! All homo Sapiens !
Hareesh,
You are a great writer and critical thinker. Lots of what you are saying make sense.
Can you write (based on what ever you wrote already) 1-2 pages length of your overall message to youths in love. Write like you are writing for Times of India or New York Times. Remember, shorter is better, considering most youths don’t have time to read it. Please cover who is the God, how religions should be followed and how interfaith lovers should follow their married life. We will publish it as a full publication (a new post). Submit it right here.
Hi Aisha,
Thanks for sharing your story. It is extremely well-written, clear and definitely thought-provoking. I am in the same position as you were in during your degree days and have a similar confusion. I am at a state wherein I have gained a lot of faith in what I have read so far and seen and/or experienced relating to Islam, but I still have not converted. I really want to learn more about what made you accept and then leave Islam. Unfortunately I have only been able to explore this religion very less and have only read things from here and there and all that I have learnt is all over the place in my mind. I want to go through this learning phase more systematically, but I don’t want to consult Islamic lecturers who will give their own biased teachings. Can you advice me further on how to go about this?
Thanks and any help is much appreciated.
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THE TRUTH OF ISLAM
Islam is totally and completely bogus – a sham and a fraud. The Koran is not the word/teachings of God but the word/teachings of Allah (the ANTI GOD) – the word/teachings of Muhammad. The Koran is a book of evil which is a very great sin and obscenity against God. As will be shown in this website, Allah was the fictional creation of Muhammad who was no prophet of any God. Muhammad invented Islam. Muhammad was Allah and Allah was Muhammad.
Muhammad – the prophet of peace, the apostle of god, ordered 60 massacres and personally participated in 27 of these acts of carnage. As the exemplary example and the perfection of humanity and the prototype of the most wonderful human conduct Muhammad massacred, beheaded, tortured, terrorized, raped, and looted in the name of God.
In the Massacre of BanuQuraiza, Muhammad personally beheaded Jewish men and ordered the beheading of 600 to 900. To distinguish young Jewish boys from young Jewish men he ordered his SS jihadists – “the Companions” to pull down the pants of the terrified boys. Just the slightest traces of hair around the genital area and the young Jewish boy were taken away and beheaded. Muhammad took a Jewish woman as his sex slave and looted the property of the murdered Jews and sold their women and little girls that the jihadists did not want as sex slaves into slavery. Allah – the godfather and mafia chieftain of the Muhammad crime family rejoiced by creating as Eternal Laws of God – 5 teachings in the Koran celebrating the great slaughter of the BanuQuraiza Jews and enslavement of terrified women.
At the Massacre of Kaibyr, Muhammad brutally tortured a Jewish chieftain to reveal where he had hidden the golden treasure of Kaibyr. When the chieftain refused to give Muhammad the treasure he was taken away and beheaded. This chieftain was the husband of a most beautiful 17 year old Jewish woman – Safiyaah. After murdering her father, brothers, uncles, husband – Muhammad will attack and rape Safiyaah.
During the massacre of The Jewish Settlement of BaniMustaliq – Muhammad will capture and rape a twenty year old Jewish girl – Juwairiya. MUHAMMAD WAS THE FIRST NAZI SS MAN.
If Islam was a true religion of peace in which Muslims prayed 5 times a day, fasted for one month yearly, abstained from alcohol, went on a pilgrimage once in a lifetime then nobody would care. But this is not the reality of Islam.
Islam is not a religion but a political – military ideology with religious trappings masquerading as a religion. Only 10% of Islam has anything to do with religion, the other 90% is political.
The Koran is not the bible but the Islamic Mein Kampf.
In order to understand Islam, you must suspend all rationally and reason. Everything you have ever been taught about God, the equality of humanity, morality, golden rule, goodness and kindness must be abandoned for the irrational, immoral World of Allah – the ANTI GOD where deceit, assassination, massacre, extermination, genocide, murder, rape, slavery, terror, torture, brutality, hate, robbery, looting and pillaging are not criminal acts but holy blessed duties, halal (legal) acts as long as they are perpetrated on kafirs guarantying accession to a Paradise filled with voluminous breasted, lustrous eyed virgins that they can sexually molest for all eternity. Islam permits polygamy, pedophilla, wife beating, marriage with adopted son’s wives and unlimited sex with sex slaves. Allah is a pedophile permitting Muslim men to rape Muslim baby girls.
ALL MUSLIMS REGARD THE KORAN AS THE ETERNAL DIVINE WORD/TEACHINGS OF GOD THAT ARE UNCHANGABLE (FOREVER)AND CAN NEVER BE QUESTIONED. THESE HEINOUS ACTS ARE JUST SOME OF THE DIVINE ETERNAL EVIL LAWS IN THE KORAN THAT ARE NOT CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY – ARE NOT SINS AGAINST GOD – ARE NOT CRIMES AGAINST THE LAWS OF GOD BUT ARE THE LAWS OF ALLAH (THE ANTI GOD). MUSLIMS WHO QUESTION JUST ONE WORD OF THE KORAN ARE NO LONGER MUSLIMS BUT APOSTATES OF ISLAM AND CAN BE KILLED.
Islam is anti God. Islam is a total and complete renunciation of God. While Muslims believe that there is only one God of the universe, their conception of God – a being they call Allah is not God but the ANTI GOD. This Allah (the ANTI GOD) worshipped by Muslims has divided all human beings into believers (Muslims) and non believers (kafirs i.e. YOU – Non Muslim.) Allah hates all kafirs with an intense passion. Kafirs are sub – human beings. They have zero humanity. Muslims must submit to Allah without question, non believers must submit to and be the slaves of Muslims, and Muslim women must submit to Muslim men.
Islam means submission. Islam demands the complete surrender of all human beings to Allah.
Islam is all about Muslim men. It is an evil ideology created by a man – Muhammad for his male followers granting them unlimited sex, riches, and political power.
Allah hates all Muslim women with a deep seated loathing. Muslim women are vile, dirty, stupid creatures. Muslim men can have multiple wives, unlimited sex slaves, can marry and rape Muslim baby girls, beat his wives, and murder them and his daughters if they dare impugn his honor. Whereas kafirs have zero humanity, Muslim women are only just slightly higher on the human evolutionary scale having evolved to being half a human. This is the divine order of the universe ordained by Allah. This vision of the inequality of Muslim women to Muslim men, and the Eternal sub – humanness and lack of humanity of kafirs is FOREVER and can never be changed in any way.
It is the prime directive of Islam to conquer the nations of the world for Allah by whatever means necessary. Allah seeks the extermination of all kafirs. By refusing to convert to Islam, kafirs have declared war against Islam, are a grave danger to Allah and must be destroyed. Islam is a declaration of war against kafirs. The Koran is not a holy book but a book of war. A book of genocide. Allah is a god of war. This war is permanent until all kafirs convert to Islam or agree to pay a devastating Jizya (submission tax) or are murdered.
For Muslims, it is a holy religious duty to murder kafirs. The Quran is written in the language of terrorism. It is filled with numerous verses urging the Muslims to terrorize the non Muslims, kill them, and take possession of their lands and properties. The important points to remember is that whatever Muhammad did to terrorize the kafirs was actually the actions of God. Among the many verses which exhort Islamist terrorism, the following verses stand out as naked aggression of Allah/Muhammad on the unbelievers: 2:63, 3:151, 8:12, 8:60, 8:59, 9:5, 9:29, 9:55, 11:102, and 17:59 etc. These teachings are the Eternal Laws of Allah authorizating murder and extermination as a holy duty.
Again as a kafir, you are not a human being to a Muslim. You have absolutely no humanity. A Muslim has the full right granted to him by God, to murder you, take your wife and young daughter(s) rape and gang rape them (no matter what the age of your daughter) take them as sex slaves or sell them into slavery to be breed like cattle for future sex slaves and profit. Your male children will be beheaded if they are young men. If there is any doubt as to whether your young son is a young man or a young boy, Muslims will pull down their pants and examine their genitals for the slightest growth of hair. Just the slightest hair growth is enough for him to be beheaded. All your property will be seized and whatever the Muslim does not want to keep as his personal property, the remainder will be sold.
As a kafir you have absolutely NO RIGHT TO OWN ANYTHING. It is a sacrilege against Allah. All your property – your home, car, money, furniture, stocks and bonds, corporations, farms, is the property of the Muslims who have holy blood flowing through their veins. Your wife and children are the Muslim’s property to be tortured, brutalized, raped as the Muslim desires.
If a Muslim kills or is killed murdering, raping, pillaging non – Muslims then they are guaranteed accession by God to a Paradise of full breasted, lustrous eyed virgins who regenerate as virgins after each sex act that they can sexually molest with external erections for all eternity. THIS IS THE EVIL INSANITY THAT IS ISLAM.
Dar al-Islam and dar al-harb: the House of Islam and the House of War (By Robert Spencer)
Islam is based on an uncompromising division of the world between Believer and Unbeliever, or Infidel: dar al-Islam (The house of Islam) and dar al-harb (the House of War). There must be a state of war between the two — though not always a state of open warfare. For Muslims have a duty to spread Islam, and to constantly expand the boundaries of Dar al-Islam, the place where Islam dominates, and Muslims rule. This is a duty, not a suggestion.
All Muslims Must Make Jihad
Jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded. Allah has ascribed great importance to jihad and has made the reward of the martyrs and the fighters in His way a splendid one. Only those who have acted similarly and who have modeled themselves upon the martyrs in their performance of jihad can join them in this reward. Furthermore, Allah has specifically honoured the Mujahideen {those who wage jihad} with certain exceptional qualities, both spiritual and practical, to benefit them in this world and the next. Their pure blood is a symbol of victory in this world and the mark of success and felicity in the world to come.
Those who can only find excuses, however, have been warned of extremely dreadful punishments and Allah has described them with the most unfortunate of names. He has reprimanded them for their cowardice and lack of spirit, and castigated them for their weakness and truancy. In this world, they will be surrounded by dishonour and in the next they will be surrounded by the fire from which they shall not escape though they may possess much wealth. The weaknesses of abstention and evasion of jihad are regarded by Allah as one of the major sins, and one of the seven sins that guarantee failure.
Islam is concerned with the question of jihad and the drafting and the mobilisation of the entire Umma {the global Muslim community} into one body to defend the right cause with all its strength than any other ancient or modern system of living, whether religious or civil. The verses of the Qur’an and the Sunnah of Muhammad are overflowing with all these noble ideals and they summon people in general (with the most eloquent expression and the clearest exposition) to jihad, to warfare, to the armed forces, and all means of land and sea fighting.
The violent injunctions of the Quran and the violent precedents set by Muhammad set the tone for the Islamic view of politics and of world history. Islamic scholarship divides the world into two spheres of influence, the House of Islam (dar al-Islam) and the House of War (dar al-harb). Islam means submission, and so the House of Islam includes those nations that have submitted to Islamic rule, which is to say those nations ruled by Sharia law. The rest of the world, which has not accepted Sharia law and so is not in a state of submission, exists in a state of rebellion or war with the will of Allah. It is incumbent on dar al-Islam to make war upon dar al-harb until such time that all nations submit to the will of Allah and accept Sharia law. Islam’s message to the non-Muslim world is the same now as it was in the time of Muhammad and throughout history: submit or be conquered. The only times since Muhammad when dar al-Islam was not actively at war with dar al-harb were when the Muslim world was too weak or divided to make war effectively.
But the lulls in the ongoing war that the House of Islam has declared against the House of War do not indicate a forsaking of jihad as a principle but reflect a change in strategic factors. It is acceptable for Muslim nations to declare hudna, or truce, at times when the infidel nations are too powerful for open warfare to make sense. Jihad is not a collective suicide pact even while “killing and being killed” (Sura 9:111) is encouraged on an individual level. For the past few hundred years, the Muslim world has been too politically fragmented and technologically inferior to pose a major threat to the West. But that is changing.
Sharia Law (By Robert Spencer)
Democracy and freedom are an affront to Allah. All constitutions are offense to Allah and must be destroyed and replaced with Sharia Law.
Large parts of the Koran are legal code and form Islamic constitutional law. Since Muslims believe that these laws come from Allah and Mohammed they are of a higher order truth than any man-made laws. Therefore, Sharia law must replace all other forms of government.
Sharia is the legal code ordained by Allah for all mankind. To violate Sharia or not to accept its authority is to commit rebellion against Allah, which Allah’s faithful are required to combat. Under Sharia law, all kafirs are second class citizens. Women can be beaten and slavery is allowed. And just as in political Islam, Sharia law cannot be reformed.
It is the long term goal of Islam to replace the US Constitution with the Sharia, since it contradicts Islam. For that matter, democracy violates Sharia law. Democracy assumes equality of all peoples. Islam teaches that a Muslim is a better person than kafirs and that the kafirs should submit to Islam. But in voting, a Muslim’s vote is equal to a kafir’s vote. This violates Islamic law, since a Muslim and a kafir are never equal.
There is no separation between the religious and the political in Islam; rather Islam and Sharia constitute a comprehensive means of ordering society at every level. While it is in theory possible for an Islamic society to have different outward forms — an elective system of government, a hereditary monarchy, etc. — whatever the outward structure of the government, Sharia is the prescribed content. It is this fact that puts Sharia into conflict with forms of government based on anything other than the Quran and the Sunnah.
The precepts of Sharia may be divided into two parts:
1. Acts of worship (al-ibadat), which includes:
Ritual Purification (Wudu)
Prayers (Salah)
Fasts (Sawm and Ramadan)
Charity (Zakat)
Pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)
2. Human interaction (al-muamalat), which includes:
Financial transactions
Endowments
Laws of inheritance
Marriage, divorce, and child care
Food and drink (including ritual slaughtering and hunting)
Penal punishments
War and peace
Judicial matters (including witnesses and forms of evidence)
As one may see, there are few aspects of life that Sharia does not specifically govern. Everything from washing one’s hands to child-rearing to taxation to military policy fall under its dictates. Because Sharia is derivate of the Quran and the Sunnah, it affords some room for interpretation. But upon examination of the Islamic sources, it is apparent that any meaningful application of Sharia is going to look very different from anything resembling a free or open society in the Western sense. The stoning of adulterers, execution of apostates and blasphemers, repression of other religions, and a mandatory hostility toward non-Islamic nations punctuated by regular warfare will be the norm. It seems fair then to classify Islam and its Sharia code as a form of totalitarianism.
The most important teaching in Islam is that all Muslims MUST believe that the Koran is the Eternal divine word of God – the Eternal laws of God. All Muslims MUST believe that God authored the Koran and a copy of the Koran is in heaven. (Thats right – God Himself wrote the Koran and a copy is in heaven.) The Koran remains for all Muslims, not just “fundamentalists,” the uncreated word of God Himself. It is valid for all times and places forever; its ideas are absolutely true and beyond all criticism. To question it is to question the very word of God, and hence blasphemous. A Muslim’s duty is to believe it and obey its divine commands without question.
Muslims can be killed (beheaded) for doing any of the following:
Reviling Allah or his Messenger; (2) being sarcastic about ‘Allah’s name, His command, His interdiction, His promise, or His threat’; (3) denying any verse of the Quran or ‘anything which by scholarly consensus belongs to it, or to add a verse that does not belong to it’; (4) holding that ‘any of Allah’s messengers or prophets are liars, or to deny their being sent’; (5) reviling the religion of Islam; (6) being sarcastic about any ruling of the Sacred Law; (7) denying that Allah intended ‘the Prophet’s message . . . to be the religion followed by the entire world.’
This means exactly what it says. ALL MUSLIMS MUST BELIEVE that the Koran is the ETERNAL word/teachings of God to be followed without question. If a Muslim challenges or questions the Koran, HE IS NO LONGER A MUSLIM BUT AN APOSTATE OF ISLAM and can be killed.
The Koran can never be changed not even one word. When you are reading teachings of the Koran, you are reading the word of God himself and you must OBEY. THERE IS NO CHOICE. There is no exercising free will, no employing logic, reason, rationality, morality. These teachings are for all time – FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.
This is the most important insanity that ALL Muslims believe – THAT MEANS ALL MUSLIMS. This belief in the KORNIC ETERNAL LAWS OF GOD is a disaster that has the potential to destroy humanity and civilization as we know it.
Again, all the Kornic teachings of extermination,murder, rape, slavery, looting, terror, sex with little girls, the non humanity of kafirs, sexual Paradise for Muslim killers etc are FOREVER.
They are Islam.
Islam is not a wonderful religion of peace and love that has been hi – jacked and perverted by a few bad apples of evil Islamo – Fascists, Islamic militants, Islamic Fundamentalists, jihadists, Wahhabism, radical Islam, political Islam, Islamists etc. There has been no hijacking. There has been no perversion. These demented souls are following exactly the teachings of the Koran and in the footsteps of the Prophet – Muhammad. ITS ALL ABOUT ISLAM STUPID INFIDEL
As already stated and what you must fully understand in order to protect your family and country against this very great evil living and flourishing among us is that the Koran defines the kafir as a subhuman who can be insulted, raped, robbed, killed, threatened or tortured. For Allah, these are holy, divine acts.
In Islam there is no Golden Rule – treat others as you wish to be treated. The ten commandments do not apply to kafirs.
The Golden Rule is centered on ethics, not god, and is universal to all cultures, except Islam. Indeed, the whole Islamic Trilogy (Koran, Sira and Hadith) denies the truth of the Golden Rule.
If the Golden Rule was applied to Islam removing hate and violent teachings directed against the kafir – and the hate directed against Muslim women about 61% of the Koran would vanish, 75% of the Sira and 20% of the Hadith would also go away.
The Golden Rule even changes Hell. Islamic Hell is primarily political. Hell is mentioned 146 times in the Koran. Only 9 references are for moral failings—greed, lack of charity, love of worldly success. The other 137 references to Hell involve eternal torture for not agreeing that Mohammed is right. That is a political charge, not a morals failure. Thus 94% of the references to Hell are as a political prison for dissenters. The Golden Rule would empty Islam’s political prison.
The Golden Rule annihilates the ethics of cruelty. Golden Rule Islam would be a reformed Islam that the kafirs would not fear and dread. We are tired of living in fear of political Islam. We have suffered enough and would welcome an Islam that did not argue, demand, pressure, dhimmize, threaten, deceive and destroy kafirs and their civilization
No rational, normal person can believe in the evil that is Islam.
Muslim men who follow the evil teachings of the Koran are not going to Allah’s sexually depraved paradise of full breasted, lustrous eyed virgins but will lose their eternal souls and join Muhammad and his master Satan in the fires of Hell.
I am not idiot nor i am blind and it is you idiot and your biased views againest islam that you are unable to see the light of islam a true religion of God. World war 1,2 killing of jews in concentration camps. Creation of isreal and then Mass murder of muslims in gaza. war on iraq for oil by giving wrong information that iraq goverment have dangerious weapons although west have more dangerious weapons againest world peace. War in vietnam. Creation of isreal and removing of 9 lakh arabs from homeland, creation of taliban againest soviet union and then attack on afghanistan in order to remove taliban from afghanistan etc done by christian secular countries. All this to creat unrest in muslims and in order to creat unrest in muslim countries. All this means that christians are worst human beings and are dangerous for world peace this is same logic you are using againest islam. In every religion some people are good and some are. Judgement cannot be given on what bad people of particular faith
I am not idiot nor i am blind and it is you idiot and your biased views againest islam that you are unable to see the light of islam a true religion of God.
World war 1,2 killing of jews in concentration camps. Creation of isreal and then Mass murder of muslims in gaza. war on iraq for oil by giving wrong information that iraq goverment have dangerious weapons although west have more dangerious weapons againest world peace. War in vietnam. Creation of isreal and removing of 9 lakh arabs from homeland, creation of taliban againest soviet union and then attack on afghanistan in order to remove taliban from afghanistan etc done by christian secular countries. All this to creat unrest in muslims and in order to creat unrest in muslim countries. All this means that christians are worst human beings and are dangerous for world peace this is same logic you are using againest islam.
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in every religion some people are bad and some people are good. You cannot judge on the bases that a man killed a innocent non muslim person and he is muslims and it means that islam allows them to kill any non muslims.
Dear Aisha,
I am glad you were able to see the truth and have realized that Islam is false. The strange feeling of denial, shock, confusion, guilt, sadness, and even anger after finding the truth is normal. You may even feel that you have done something terribly wrong and will want to revert back to Islam. This is all part of the process of enlightenment. We all went through these stages. I call them the seven valleys from faith to enlightenment.
It does not matter whether you call yourself an apostate or not. Even if you call yourself a Muslim, continue praying the Islamic prayers, fast and do everything Islamic, life will never be the same for you again. You are out of the womb of ignorance. You are born in a new world where everything is different. Babies cry when they are born. That is because they know nothing about this world and all they feel is that they are separated from the only world that they know. Birth was a painful experience for all of us and I don’t think anyone wanted it to happen. The comfort of the known and the fear of the unknown is what keep us from making the leaps necessary for your growth.
I have seen many people, including yours truly, who could not let go and vacillated between faith and disbelief for a long time. However, once you learn the truth, there is no unlearning it. One can go back and fool himself for a few more years trying to keep his head under the sand, but at the end he will have no choice but to resign to the fact that he is out of that paradise of ignorance and should move on.
You do not have to say anything to your father or to anyone about leaving Islam. Keep going to the mosque if your father asks you to and pretend praying and fasting if necessary. You are out of Islam and Islam is out of you no matter what you do, say or think. I can say that many people who have left Islam are still in the forum of FFI defending it. I can see that they are no longer Muslims but they like to live in denial for now as admitting the truth is too painful. Eventually they will admit it too. There is no hurry. We are not recruiting people to do anything. We are spreading knowledge. Each person has his or her own pace of growth. It took you six months, it took me two years. Some people do it in days and others in years.
You say that now that you left Islam, it feels strange not to believe in God. But who said you should abandon the belief in God? God has nothing to do with Muhammad and Islam. If you choose not to believe in God, that is your choice, but you must not think that by leaving Islam you have to leave God. Many apostates, including myself, felt that we found God, the real God, after letting go of our fear of Allah, the sadistic god of Muhammad.
Apostasy is knowledge. You do not have to do anything to be an apostate. There are no baptisms, shahada or initiation rituals. Once you have the knowledge of the truth, you can no longer believe in lies and absurdities. The next step is to spread this knowledge. Do that with caution (hikmat) and if you live in a Muslim country, as I imagine you do, use only the Internet to speak out your mind.
Welcome to the world of enlightenment. Your real growth has just begun. Now that you have become a freethinker and a critical thinker, you are on your own to find the realities of life. Freedom entails responsibility. Now it is your responsibility to choose the right path and live the right way.
Yes Islam will not last this century. This century will be the century of free information and this means the end of Islam. Ignorance and knowledge cannot live side by side. Islam is ignorance and ignorance will dissipate once knowledge is spread like darkness that vanishes with the introduction of light. For 1400 years Muslims managed to keep the darkness by not letting the light in. That is no longer possible.
The book I have written is about the psychology of Muhammad and why he did what he did. No one can read that book and not be affected. It will shed a lot of light on the mind of Muhammad and one cannot help but accept that the founder of Islam was indeed a psychopath. The proof is overwhelming. It will be available for purchase next week.
Wish you the best.
Mehruinnisha
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Hello readers,
Kindly go through the following text in the overall interestof humanity.
Muhammad: A Prophet or a Pretender?
A true prophet should possess utmost humility of the biblical prophets, but Muhammad was an utmost arrogant, self-possessed and self-righteous man. Truly Muhammad was nothing but a pretender, seduced by his own rebellious heart…
There are three legs upon which Islam stands its grounds:
The Koran
Allah
Muhammad
Likewise, let’s take the example of a three-legged milking stool: If one leg is broken off, the whole stool would fall down. Some old farmers from Missouri, USA, will tell you that there is such a thing as ‘one-legged milking stool’! A clever farmer provides the other two legs with his own and the stool works, though there is a constant struggle to stay in balance.
Once dealt with the counterfeit Koran and the Pagan moon-god of Islam, Allah, we now find that Islam’s milking stool is actually down to one leg. We have seen that Islam is very vulnerable in its puerile and contradictory Koran. Allah also turns out to be a big fraud. Nevertheless, the Mullahs will prop up the Islamic stool by sheer force in the hope that Muhammad will survive our basic scrutiny.
With a feeble mind’s help, one shall now knock the last leg off of the stool of Islam and see how fragile the structure of Islam really is! I shall avoid stealth; rather, I shall simply quote Muhammad, and give you the known history of the man they call a Prophet. You may then decide if you wish to follow this alleged prophet/messenger of Allah.
Ahadith will be used heavily since they show the real Muhammad, who is well concealed to students of holy Koran alone. Again, I remind you that ahadith, or sayings of Muhammad, are 100% authoritative and genuine, since the Mullahs effective use them to control and guide the everyday lives of Muslims worldwide.
Also, to our Muslim readers, please bear with me. I know that many of these sayings in the ahadith have been hidden from you or have been concealed in taqiya, but it is urgent that you see just what kind of a prophet you are following. If you are a devout Muslim, this will be the hardest part for you to hear, but it can also be the way finally to truth so as to liberate yourself from the ‘deceptions of Islam’. May the Truth give you light to know it.
Muhammad’s Claims for himself as a ‘Prophet’ of God!
All prophets must establish who they are and where they came from. If they are prophets, they must be very convincing to get attention of potential followers. A prophet, who calls men to himself alone, is called a ‘guru’. A prophet, who calls men to a supreme being, is called a ‘true prophet’, or a “prophet of god” etc.
Islam’s first pillar is to declare the true faith of Islam. That is done by repeating a single statement, which is: “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.”
Is Muhammad a true prophet of God, as he claimed? We shall soon see.
H. G. Wells says that Muhammad claimed that the prophets before him, particularly Abraham and Jesus, were divine teachers of Allah, but he, Muhammad, was the crowning and final prophet, who completed the line of prophetic succession. The reason Muhammad failed to include Buddha, Krishna, and the Vedas in his list of Allah’s prophets is because he was isolated from the rest of the world by his Arab geography.
We note that all modern-day prophets made similar and repeated claims of being the last and the best. Montinus (circa 250 AD) claimed to be a Christian prophet; he had quite a following until Christ failed to come back by his man-made schedules. Joseph Smith, who encouraged his men to marry an old maid’s sanitarium, claimed to be the last and the best of the prophets. Charles Taz Russell, a lazy loser of a salesman, founded the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and claimed the same, as did Rajneesh, Jim Jones, Father Divine, and Willy Frampton. (Willy prophesied in the 1960s on Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles something about 35-foot grasshoppers coming to destroy the earth if we didn’t repent. He even had photos of the grasshoppers in a shoe box, which he refused to open?)
So, here is what Muhammad said about ‘himself’ as we compare him with the prophets and writers of the Bible. The copy of the ahadith I am using is, Al Hadis by Al Haji Maulana Fazlul Karim, The Book House, Lahore, Pakistan, in five volumes. Every ahadith has a reporter, who heard Muhammad say the ahadith. Then at the end of each ahadith there are renowned Muslim scholars, who attest that it was said by Muhammad. This is actually a better authority than that of the Koran, in which only Muhammad speaks, purported as Allah’s words.
Muhammad Exalts Himself!
Al Hadis, Vol. 4, p. 316:
Abu Hurairah reported that the Messenger of Allah said, “I have been sent in the best of the generations of the children of Adam, one generation after another generation, until I am born in the generation in which I am born.” (Attested by Bukhari)
This means that ‘the generations of the world have been constantly improving, and Muhammad is the pinnacle of all men, humbly no doubt’. Again, listen to him defy entropy.
Al Hadis, Vol. 4, p. 323:
Abbas reported that he came to the Holy Prophet while he was in such a condition as he heard something (about his linage from unbelievers). The Holy Prophet got up to the pulpit and asked, “Who am I?” They replied, “You are the messenger of Allah.” Muhammad said, “I am Muhammad, son of Abdullah, son of Abdul Muttaleb. Allah created creations and made me the best of them. Then he divided them into two groups and made me the best of the two. Then he divided them into tribes and made me the best of the tribes. Then he made them into families and made me the best of the families. I am the best of them as a member and the best of them as a family.” (Attested by Tirmizi)
Al Hadis, Vol 4, p. 328:
Jaber reported that the Holy Prophet said, “Allah sent me to complete the excellent virtues and to perfect the good actions”. (Attested Sharhi-Sunnat)
We are reminded at once of Muhammad’s “virtue” as he consummated his battlefield “marriage” to a Jewish captive, Safiyah, in a sand dune with the gore and filth of battle all over him. Virtuous actions no doubt, though it is today called ‘rape-virtuous’, even though he broke his own ahadith Sharia’h Law to wait until after her next monthly!
Al Hadis, Vol. 4, p. 326:
Obai-b-Ka’ab reported from the Holy Prophet who said: “When here will come the resurrection Day, I shall be the leader of the Prophets and their spokesman and one who will intercede for them without boast.” (Attested by Tirmizi)
Muhammad is claiming by inference that he will intercede for Jesus Christ! He was good at slapping Christ’s face. In another ahadith of the same passage, according to Abu Hurairah, Anas, and Abdullah-b-Salam, Muhammad claimed he would be at the right hand of Allah, and that Jesus would return to earth, live forty years, then be buried with him. These are direct contradictions of Jesus Christ, which Muhammad used to degrade Christ and exalt himself to guru-istic heights! Muhammad’s claim, that ‘he was the prophet of the God of the Bible and also a fellow prophet with Jesus, is really preposterous.
Biblical Prophets Exalt God or Christ and Not Themselves!
Jesus speaking of the prophet John the Baptist said in the Bible (Matthew 11:11): “verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he”.
Jesus is saying that any man can be great in God’s eyes. The self-exaltation of Muhammad is totally out of character with Prophets of the Bible.
Earlier John the prophet said about himself in the Bible (Matthew 3:11): “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire”.
Like John the Baptist, a true prophet of God thinks of himself with only humility while he exalts The Lord Jesus Christ.
Here is what the Apostle to the Jews and Arabs, Paul, thought of himself in the Bible (I Timothy 1:15): “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief”.
Now, how is it that he spoke that way about himself, yet God let him write much of the New Testament of the Bible? Could it be that humility is required in the prophets of the God of the Bible? Answer: YES!
Listen to Isaiah speak of himself. This is the prophet that wrote the longest book of prophecy in the Bible (Isaiah 6:5): “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts”.
It is obvious that Muhammad heard from Allah, a pagan god from Babylon, for ‘if’ he had heard from Jehovah, he would have found no room to boast of himself.
Prophet Amos, whose book is in the Bible, thought he wasn’t even qualified to be a prophet. The Bible, Amos 7:14: “Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamores fruit (figs)”.
Thus, God could use him because he was at first humble and self-effacing.
Prophet Moses, whom Muhammad blessed, couldn’t even speak properly. Bible, Exodus 4:10: “And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue”.
But, no man has been more loved and his autographs imprinted in the world’s legal structure, than those of Moses. Humility preceded his ministry.
Regarding Muhammad’s attempts to humanize Christ’s deity, here is where Jesus Christ is NOW! Bible, Acts 2:33-35: “Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this… For David… saith himself, The Lord (Jehovah) said unto my Lord (Jesus Christ), Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thy foes thy footstool”.
Rather than Muhammad interceding for Jesus, Muhammad should have cried out to Jesus Christ to intercede for him. Since he didn’t, Muhammad is now burning in Hell! The Apostle Paul said in the Bible (I Timothy 2:5): “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”; and in II Timothy 4:1, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom”.
Muhammad is in trouble. He will soon meet the Judge, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will put His foot on Muhammad’s neck and send him back to Hell. Muhammad had a very exalted view of himself, while the biblical prophets did not. Here is what Paul, the Bible writer, admonished men and prophets to think about themselves:
Bible, Romans 12:3: “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith”.
Bible, Galatians 6:3-4: “For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another”.
Bible, I Corinthians 14:37: “If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.”
Now, we see that a truly godly man does not even notice himself. In the I Corinthians text, we see that those, who are “spiritual”, agree with the teachings of Apostle Paul. This is why the Mullahs, especially Ahmed Deedat, hate Paul. It was Apostle Paul, who also said (Bible, II Timothy 3:13): “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived”.
Muhammad and Islam have no problem with evolution. They believe Muhammad was the pinnacle of all human evolution, and things will get better and better as Islam takes over the world. The coming section on Muhammad’s libido should be sufficient to show that he wasn’t quite as lofty as he imagined. As to Islam, the wars between the Sunni and Shiite Muslims show how they cannot tame the human instinct, and the wars between Iraq and Iran proved Apostle Paul to be correct rather than Muhammad. Jesus said (Matthew 23:12): “And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted”.
Such attitude of utmost humility may only be fitting for a true “Prophet of God”.
But it is very clear that Muhammad was an utmost arrogant, self-possessed and self-righteous man. Truly Muhammad was a pretender, seduced by his own rebellious heart, and has turned the world’s 1.4b Muslims victim of the same.
When Muslim men die and pass to Islamic Paradise (Heaven), they expect to enter a utopian dimension where wine, milk and honey flows, fruit-trees flourish and rivers gush forth with the purist water.
Here, they plan to be greeted by 72 young virgins of “perpetual freshness” (houris) who will lead them into palaces loaded with luxurious thrones surrounded by gold, silver and jewel plated furnishings.- a holy place where believers reclined on jeweled couches surrounded by the finest silks can experience unlimited erotic sexual pleasures.
Islamic scholar Yusuf Ali described the virgins as “the companionship of Beauty and Grace – one of the highest pleasures of life. In the higher life it takes a higher form…The pronoun in Arabic is in the feminine gender. It is made clear that these maidens for heavenly society will be of special creation,-of virginal purity, grace, and beauty, inspiring and inspired by love, with the question of time and age eliminated.”
The virgins, according to another Islamic commentator are “creations of God, intelligent yet soulless and created to serve the believer who goes to Paradise. They are created for the purpose of serving the believer, and as such, they don’t exactly have free will. They are described as pure, beautiful, dark eyed, lustrous, virgin, and more perfect than any human on earth. Imagine the woman of your dreams.”
Quranic commentator Al-Suyuti (died 1505 ) explained more graphically that Muslim men in Paradise experience non-ending arousals and that ever time they have sex with one of the angelic maidens, they find her body reconstituted as “virgin.”
“The sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint,” Al-Suyuti explained. ” Each chosen one [Muslim] will marry seventy houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all (will be appetizing).”
Islam’s Prophet Muhammad was heard saying about Islamic Heaven: ‘The smallest reward for the people of paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus suburb] to Sana’a [Yemen].”
To assure Muslim men that they will be able to fully enjoy their heavenly rewards, Muhammad said, “A man in paradise shall be given virility equal to that of one hundred men.”
Islamic law and moral guidance for all of Islam is mostly based on the life of Muhammad and his Quranic revelations, his life as a conquering warrior and his sayings, acts, approvals or disapprovals. He was born 570 years after the death of Jesus Christ.
Muslims say that the Archangel Gabriel manifested himself to Muhammad where he was secluded in a cave to pray.
Gabriel, according to Islamic teachings, instructed the terrified Muhammad that he had been chosen as a messenger of God to “recite, repeat and proclaim” revelations from God. For nearly 23 years, Muhammad supposedly received “Divine” instructions
As soon as Muhammad would receive a divine revelation and repeat it back to his followers, it became Islamic tradition or law. Muhammad recited a revelation declaring that Christ was not the Son of God another instructing Muslims that it was their heavenly duty to fight and kill Christians and Jews where ever they could be found.
For centuries Muslim men have followed Muhammad’s specific “revelation” instructions on how and when to fight, loot, pillage, plunder, rape, torture and murder in order to further the interests of Islam and their own personal wealth in the form of “plunder.”
Muslim women were and still are restricted to the role of wife, who is a source of comfort for her husband and mother for his children. This because Muhammad was heard to say “men are the protectors and maintainers of women because Allah has given one more strength than the other, and because they support them from their means” and “stay quietly in your houses, and make not a dazzling display of yourselves like that of the former times of ignorance. (Surah Ahzab:33)
When a Moslem female turns 7 years old, she is segregated from all males in and out of her extended family. From then on, no males including her father, grandfather, uncles, brothers, cousins are allowed to be present at her birthday parties or at any ceremony celebrating her accomplishments.
At 9 years old, she must begin adhering to Islamic laws because she is considered an adult and eligible for marriage. Muhammad contracted for his wife Aisha, when she was 7 (he was 51) and consummated the marriage when she was 9.
Aisha, was the second of 11 wives and an unknown number of concubines and female slaves who Muhammad collected during his life, which span from 570 AD until 632 AD.
When a Muslim woman steps from her house into the public, her body must be covered from head to toe with no skin showing (hijab).
This law, according to Islamic tradition, is a result of Muhammad becoming upset one day when he noticed several of his wives flirting with men who were visiting him. Muhammad ordered the women to retire behind a dividing curtain when speaking to the men. It was that order by Muhammad which caused the Islamic obligation of hijab. The term comes from the Arabic word “hijaba,” which means to hide from view.
If a Muslim women gets sick, she is required to be treated by female doctors. If none are available, she must be examined through some sort of divider or go without treatment.
Like Muslim men, Muslim women must kneel facing Mecca and pray five times a day and fast one month out of a year. Women are required to pray at home in many Islamic countries because females are not allowed in mosques. Among the countries which allow women in mosques, the women are banished to basement rooms or other segregated spaces.
Muslim leaders explain that for Islamic prayers to be “valid” and “accepted by Allah,” the prayer must be offered with a complete presence of the heart, harmony of the inner self and uninterrupted concentration.
They say women performing the Muslim prayer movements of standing upright, sitting, bending and prostrating is inappropriate because it distracts men from their prayers. For justification, Muslim leaders point to the Islamic tradition which states ” . . . and whoever prays behind a woman imam should repeat his prayers even if the time slot for that specific prayer has passed.”
Muhammad was once heard saying: “from among my followers there will be some who will consider illegal sexual intercourse, the wearing of silk, the drinking of alcoholic drinks and the use of musical instruments, to be lawful. Allah will destroy them during the night and will let mountains fall on them. He will transform the rest into monkeys and pigs and they will remain so till the Day of Doom” (Hadith, Volume 7, Book 69, Number 494v).
As a result, Muslim women are ordered not to wear silk (fashionable cloths) or bright colors, play musical instruments, dance, wear make-up, date, have sex outside of marriage, play sports, watch men play (even on television), etc. If they get caught doing so, depending on the Islamic country, they will be arrested and beaten.
Women living under Islamic laws are not allowed to work, travel, go to college, join organizations, or visit friends and relatives without the permission of their father or husband.
They can be legally jailed or executed for violations of Islamic laws, depending on the seriousness the infraction.
Quranic verse 24:31 warns Muslim women not to make eye contact or allow any part of their skin or jewelry to be seen by strangers, “and tell the believing women to lower their gaze and protect themselves from illegal sexual acts, and not show off their adornment [to all men] and boys].” As a result of this verse, if an adult girl (9 years and older) is raped by an adult man, she will be considered at fault because she was careless and provoked the attack. Her parents will be expected to severely punish or kill her for dishonoring her family.
If a woman is taken political prisoner, and condemned to death, Islamic law prevents her from being executed as long as she is a virgin because Muslim leaders believe virgins go to heaven. But, according to those same leaders, women involved in politics are “ungodly creatures” who do not deserve to go to heaven. To insure that an “ungodly virgin” does not enter heaven, the woman’s captors will treat her as a concubine making it legal for her to be systematically raped.
Islamic justification for raping woman prisoners can be found because Muhammad gave permission for Muslim warriors to rape enemy prisoners “except those (captives and slaves) whom your hands possess. Thus has Allah ordained for you…..” Surah 4:24. The key words for the Islamic legal code are “whom your hands possess” and “thus Allah has ordained for you.”
Muslim Quranic (bible) verse 4:34 instructs Muslim men to “admonish” and “beat” their wives if they become “rebellious” and that “men are the managers of the affairs of women because Allah has preferred men over women and women were expended of their Rights.”
In an Islamic court of law, it takes the testimony of two women to override the testimony of one man. Justification for this legal tradition is found in Quran 2:282.
Muslim women are not allowed equal right to their inheritance (Quran 4:11-12) because they are only worth half of a man’s share. In most Islamic countries, women are not allowed to vote and are certainly not allowed to be elected to public office.
According to Islam, most women are inherently evil and their ultimate destiny is Hell fire. Muhammad explained about one of his visions, “. . . I stood at the gate of the Fire [Hell] and saw that the majority of those who entered it were women.”
When a women asked Muhammad why there were more women in Hell than men, he replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.”
When the woman asked what was deficient in a woman’s intelligence and religion, Muhammad answered, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man? This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses? This is the deficiency in her religion.”
Because Muhammad said, “marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial,” polygamy is legal in Islam. A man may marry “four Permanent” and as many “Provisional” or temporary wives as he desires.
Because Muhammad said, “your women are a tillage for you; so come unto your tillage as you wish,” Islam assumes not only that women are worth less than men, but that they are property who must unquestionable meet all her husband’s sexual desires. If she refuses, he has the legal right under Islamic law to deny her food, shelter, and all of life’s necessities.
A Muslim woman does not have the right to choose who she wants to marry. She is not permitted to divorce her husband unless she can prove he is impotent or that he does not have sex with her “at least one night in every forty nights” and if he has not provided her with a minimum standard of living. In both cases, the woman would need another witness, because Muhammad said a women’s testimony counts only “half of a man’s.”
If a Muslim women protests any of her treatment, she is reminded that “her husband can divorce her simply by repeating “I divorce you” three times and that her prayers and devotions will not be accepted by God and curses of heaven and earth will fall upon her” if she continues to rebel.
Since Muhammad’s time, Muslim women have been made to fear the Hell Fire consequences of disobeying husbands and fathers, but what can the loyal and obedient women expect to find for herself in paradise?
Because Paradise, is described in largely male terms, the exact nature of an equivalent reward for women remains unclear. Married women, who pass the purity test will be reunited with their husbands and children. A woman who married more than once would have to choose which husband she would prefer to join her in the after-life. She, however, remains reserved for her husbands, if one chooses to keep her.
Men who married more than once will remain free to keep all their wives while having the privilege of being attended to by 72 pure, beautiful, dark eyed, lustrous angelic maidens, whose bodies continuously reclaims as “virgins.”
Muslim scholars say that Muslim women in Paradise are also rebuilt young and beautiful with perpetual virginity, but that there is no Quranic promise of virgins for women.
Although Muhammad was heard promising that “round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness: if thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered pearls,” Muslim scholars are emphatic that the pretty virgin boys in Paradise are not there for the women.
“I am a Moslem woman. I have no face. I have no identity . . . Islam believes and promotes only one relationship between male and female and that is the relation of lust . . . I have no explanation on why God denied me everything and made men in charge of me, if there is a God. I don’t believe there ever was one.”– Dr. Parvin Darabi, a rehabilitated Muslim woman, author and activist.
Dear readers,
I left Islam. I always thought that Muhammad can not be God’s messenger or a holy man! By looking at his personal affairs, especially with women, I can not follow a man who marries each woman he meets! Also the contradictions in the Quran and the way it was written – in a way that is so difficult to understand, made me believe that this is a man made religion .
Also, Islam has NO tolerance for other belief systems, and the argument that Muslims are very lucky that they were born in Muslim countries got me convinced that Muslims are so closed-minded and forgot that there are many wonderful people on this planet who are not Muslims. I think Islam is the worst thing that happened to humanity. It pushes Muslim’s backwards and that is why there is no single Muslim country is advanced or even civilized!
Also on the question of prayer, they say if you do not pray 5 times a day you will be burned in hell for ever! I tried prayer of course when I was a Muslim, but I did not feel anything, I felt I am just exercising or in the Gym, I felt I am like a robot. No feeling at all. This is pure brainwashing.
Now I am not sure if there is God or Not, the theory of evolution blew my mind and the fact that there are so many religions in the world and so many problems in the world made me believe that Man created God not the other way around.
Shenaz,
Agree that men created religionS. If there is a God, it is in you and us all. Treat any one and every one like a God, and this World will be wonderful place to live.
Please come here every week to guide youths in love and fighting in the name of man-made religions. True lovers should be simply respecting their lovers the way he or she is (no BBS!).
A call to Muslim women/girls
Understand Islam to rescue yourself and others from the slavery of Muhammad. Many of Muslim zealots have expressed their opinions on Islam and have cursed others for showing them the mirror. One may wonder, why the Muslim zealots react so emotionally and aggressively, usually abusing and using filthy language against anyone who is in disagreement with them. I have frequently seen them using expletive words instead of logical arguments to prove their point. After some deliberations, I have tried to put the reasons behind their immature behaviour. I would like to share with the interfaith family members.
First let’s have scan the usual arguments of Muhammad followers against those who criticize them. I have enumerated some of the common objection they put forth:
1. As they are non-Muslims, they speak against Islam.
2. The non-Muslims don’t understand what Islam is. They should read Quraan/Hadiths and tafseers to know the truth.
3. You are quoting from the anti Muslim sites.
4. Only Allah knows the truth.
5. The terrorists don’t represent the real Islam.
6. Islam is a peaceful religion and has been propagated by peaceful means. Killing even a single innocent is like killing the whole humanity.Islam respects women.
I fully agree that there could be some amount for truth in their argument that non-Muslims are anti-Muslims or they don’t understand what Islam is. So, let’s discard the non-Muslims altogether and devise a way to know Islam that is impeccable and no body except the brainwashed ones, could doubt it. Also agreed that only the Muslims can be true interpreters of Islam.
The acceptance of the fact that only the Muslims are the true interpreters of Islam poses a new difficulty and makes the situation even confounded. The reason is there are 73 sects in Islamand all of them interprete it differently. Nay, they all claim that only their sect is the true representative of Islam and all others are mistaken i.e a candidate of hell fire! So, all of the sects of Islam are exclusive to one another. That means, if you pick any one of them, for example Shias, they will claim sole to be the true interpreters of Islam and any other interpretation by other sects of Islam will be wrong. Opposing their claim, there will be 72 other sects of Islam who will counter argument tooth and nail and will claim the Shias to be greatly mistaken. Even they won’t shy to call the Shias, Kafirs and a candidate of Hell fire. Similar is the case with the Sunnis, Ahmadias and Sufis and so forth.
To summarize, for every interpretation of Islam, there are 72 counter interpretation of the same Islam by the Muslims themselves! The moot question is which of the sects represent the true Muslims? Well, everybody should think nowwhy there is so much confusion about a so called holy book propagated by the so called the best of the persons ever walked on the face of the earth. All the Muslims believe in the Muhammad’s prophet-hood and the divinity of the Quraan and still unsure about the true message? Where lies the problem. There is hardly so much hullabaloo about any religious book than Quraan, so much so that most of the Muslims killed so far has been killed by none other than the Muslims themselves! What an evil cycle of puzzle comes one after another in solving one!
To resolve the conundrum, let’s have a bird’s eye view of Islam with an objective mindset i.e. as a curious observer. The key to Islam is the word ‘ISLAM’ itself. Islam in Arabic means ‘Surrender’. So every true Islamic follower must surrender to Allah. Once they surrendered, they become a follower of Allah as there is no room for logic or rationality for those who surrender. Hence, thinking and surrendering are more or less antithesis to each other.
But this is the half of the story though. Further curiosity puts another query – is it really Allah whom the Muslims surrender? In response to this question all the Muslims will say instantly that Muslims surrender to Allah alone. So far so good. However, how can one surrender to Allah without any communication with Allah? Has any Muslim communicated Allah, or at least is there any possibility that any Muslim will be able to establish sort of communication with Allah in his/her life time? The answer to this question is an emphatic ‘No’. Only exception is Muhammad who could have not only communicated or had a glimpse of Allah but also he had a detailed conversation with Allah face to face. Not only that, Muhammad received instruction from Allah for approximately 22 last years of his life and served as the interface between the Muslims and the Allah!
So, only way to communicate with Allah is by means of Muhammad. Even Allah has to work in favour of Muhammad’s recommendation in alloting paradise to the believers. So much so is the authority of Muhammad that even Allah cannot go against Muhammad, what to talk about a simpleton Muslim going agains the prophet! Therefore, though explicitly not mentioned but implied intention of Quraan is loud and clear – surrender to Muhammad and go to the paradise as Allah will be pleased with you. So surrendering Allah means actually surrendering to the words of Muhammad as Allah is only accessible through Muhammad.
The above discussion clarifies that in fact Islam means surrendering to Muhammad as it’s impossible surrendering to Allah in one’s lifetime. This is one of the very fundamental and unique characteristic of Islam and is generally overlooked by even the evry careful observer of Islam.
Having established the above mentioned basic charateristic of Islam that it’s for surrendering to Muhammad’s words, let’s analyze the implications of this complete surrender to the prophet. In fact the implications have been proved to be far reaching. As we have seen earlier, that the word ‘Surrender’ doesn’t leave any scope for logical or rational discussion/thinking but implies only blindly following. Therefore, surrendering to Muhammad means no questioning to Muhammad or his words, just blindly following him. This fact implies that Muslims drifted away from rational and objective thinking and adopted the attitude of slavishly following to whoever they surrendered. They became dumb and deaf followers of their sect’s interpretation of Muhammad’s words. They discarded all the counter arguments and followed their sect only. Ultimately this gave rise to ideological petrification immune to other’s arguments/comments. This is the primary reason why the Muslim sects don’t listen not only to one another but also to non-Muslims. They just thrust their words upon others. The Muslims don’t argue anybody to arrive at the conclusive truth, but to prove their sect’s interpretation right and supreme.
There is no scope of objectivity and hence it leads to vituperative language and demeaning others. This explains their typical lines as given below:
1. You are foolish and you don’t have brain.
2. You don’t know anything about Islam
3. Read Quraan/Hadith and tafseers.
4. You will go to hell fire
5. Your religion is the worst and your God is fake.
6. You are idolators and believe in many gods.
7. You are dirty, ugly, black dwarfs and checken hearted
In short, the Muslims are unable to comprehend and consequently accept even the logical and rational counter arguments that are supported with facts and illustrations.
The implications of the Muslim psyche as presented above has been catastrophic, especially for the women folk and the non Muslims. To understand it fully, a brief critical analysis of Islamic tenet will be helpful.
To be continued ……….
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Opposition of islam start from first day when prophet muhammad begain preaching islam. Meccans at that time did everything to kill our prophet. But what happens thouse people get killed who thought to kill prophet and after that islam grows and will grow from now. No one have such power to eliminate truth of islam a true religion from world. Women were first who accept islam. Your all the efforts againest islam are in vain. Today islam is winning largest no of converts most are women. West is converting to islam.
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Non muslims first use bad language againest muslims by using fake muslim names. I think hindu women should be liberated from evils of hinduism like dowery bride burning sati caste system. Brahmas raping her daughter sarswati etc. People cannot ask islamic hater to give us knowledge about islam. He should vist islamic site instead of antiislamic site.
Great comments by Richard and Truth.
Only such a bastard does not see reality. He is bringing customers for his mother,s sexual needs, even then he does not see any evils in islam, since this religion propagated by a person like Prophet, who used to rape 9 year old girls, married 17 wives, murdered millions, used to drink camel urine and having sex with animal too and still saying messenger of allah? What an ideology or religion?
Aisha,
Thanks for sharing your life story, it is superb. Yes, it makes a big difference.
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Zunaid cannot write any reality of the muslim relgion. Heis a bastard, illegal product of contractual marriage by his mother, he does not his biological father, always barking like a mad dog and an agent of his mother to bring customers for sexual requirement.
Dear Readers,
Islam is not a religion but an idelogy of criminal activities like rape, murder, blasts, jihad, fatwa, crime, lying always, treating rapist nominee of God.
Renowned atheist Professor Richard Dawkins received a surprise standing ovation in the traditionally Christian community of Stornoway last night, following a two-hour speech in which he said there was probably no God.
The 71-year-old described Islam as “one of the great evils of the world” in his lecture, The God Delusion, as part of a rare visit to the Western Isles.
The talk delivered on Lewis during the Hebrides Book Festival proved a major hit among the 220-strong crowd. There was a waiting list of 60 people for tickets, after the event sold out within 40 minutes.
Members of the audience cheered loudly as Prof Dawkins used the appearance to attack Islam, while stressing that the “vast majority of Muslims” were not evil, only their religion was.
Prof Dawkins said: “We are terrified of being called ‘Islamophobic’. It is a disgrace a religion prescribes death for leaving it. The vast majority of Muslims would not dream of doing that, but they are taught it in their madrassas… and it only takes a minority to put that into practice. And, as we have seen, terrible things happen.”
Aisha christine is actually a christian missionary. Women can take divorce in sharia court if she found her husband rude. There is no need of women to remain under rude husband. Her consent for marriage is important and she cannot be forced for marriage to any person. Men are allowed to have four wives only if he give them equal treatment. But a man can have four wives only when women are consent to become 2nd 3rd 4th wife of a man already married. Islam did not oppress women it is women which are enemies of each other to help oppression of another women by marring a person who is already married. Vist
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http://www.muslimconverts.com
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consent is automatically given when the women is beaten, which is allowed in Qur’an, and fear of loosing husband, by verbal talak, also allowed in Qur’an. So stop writing crap Junaid, why don’t you write what Muslims do in Real life
Where it is written quran that you must beat women in order to obtain consent for marriage. A girl came to prophet and asked prophet that her parents are forcing her to marry cousin. After hearing this prophet said to her that if she didnot like her cousin then marry to other person which she like. If there is beating of women in some parts of muslim countries it is their culture not islam vist wikipedia and see women in islam which is neutral source. If you donot believe it is your only ignorence. crap here is written here by non muslim and copy what is written in anti islamic sites and paste hear. Ok if some woman fear that her husband may give her divorce what about other women which want to become 2nd 3rd and 4th wife. If a man divorces his wife then other women should not marry to that person. They should know charecter of man before marriage.
Where in Koran it is written that Muslims should circumvent Ka’ba 7 times counter clockwise (or clockwise)?
It is sunnah of prophet muhammad who taught muslims ho w to perform hajj.
Its is written right where ur blind biased eyes can’t see, you just are a certified idiot- here is how . When your Qur’an give permission for husband to beat wife, also given the fact Qur’an gives right to husband to divorce wife by saying talak 3 times. So only an muslims use this power to get what he wants from his wife, are you so dumb to not understand this? All you do is bark like an idiot- where this is written, where that is written. Your Qur’an is not a future predicting machine which can write future for u to read. Where it is written to hijack American airliner and crash it in etc and kill thousands of non Muslims? Its not written, isn’t it, similarly its not written anywhere, but that’s what muslims do in reality. I hope you are not more dumb.
I am not idiot nor i am blind and it is you idiot and your biased views againest islam that you are unable to see the light of islam a true religion of God. World war 1,2 killing of jews in concentration camps. Creation of isreal and then Mass murder of muslims in gaza. war on iraq for oil by giving wrong information that iraq goverment have dangerious weapons although west have more dangerious weapons againest world peace. War in vietnam. Creation of isreal and removing of 9 lakh arabs from homeland, creation of taliban againest soviet union and then attack on afghanistan in order to remove taliban from afghanistan etc done by christian secular countries. All this to creat unrest in muslims and in order to creat unrest in muslim countries. All this means that christians are worst human beings and are dangerous for world peace this is same logic you are using againest islam.
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