God, Fear, Love And Truth
Good questions. That’s exactly what I wanted. The ball is in my court and I am loving every bounce of it. Thanks for getting back to me. Who is God? If God deems Patience as a virtue. Shouldn’t he be the most Patient? If he deems Sacrifice a good thing for us. Shouldn’t he be the most Sacrificial? All I say is stop calling him As-Sabur. What is Allah patient for? He doesn’t die or feel pain. Wow! I wished I could be God. It’s so convenient being God. And do you know who is the Prime Minister or President of the Country? In the analogy you used. No Sir! He is not King. He is the biggest servant. He is there to serve people. He’s responsible for their affairs. It is our Muslim mindset that’s skewed to think otherwise – that produced the likes of Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Khomeini, Saddam Hussain and Gaddafi. Who lived for their own God. You become like the God you worship. You become the ideal you glorify. It is not that God ideals has to be different than your own ideals. Jesus himself said that ”He being God, is the servant of people’. He served us, showed us how to handle pain and overcome life. We’re God’s responsibility. Not the other way around. It is this sick mindset we Muslims have because of which we have not invented anything after Charpai (please don’t bombard me here with Golden Age Syndrome Muslims have – they were mostly Atheists – Ar-Razi was Atheist for example) and have waged countless wars in the name of Islam. Not once Jesus ordered wars. He was one who gave the second cheek while we have the laws for retribution and revenge. He said he who has not sinned throw the first stone on to the woman who was punished to death by Sansar/Rajm. Show me one Christian who is Christian because of the fear of death if he leaves Christianity. I can show you millions of Muslims who are Muslims because of stupid peer-pressures living double lives and fear leaving it. Who the hell are other people to judge someone based on what goes on in under one’s own skin? God is worship worthy because He’s Godly. He doesn’t need to worship some other God. He worships his own ideal, his own glory, his own Father. For you it’s hard to wrap your head around. But think it this way – the only Prophet – even according to Islam who raise the dead (Godly resurrection) or who will come at the end of times – is Jesus. Not Muhammad, Moses, Abraham, Noah or Adam. Why Jesus? Why Allah says in Quran that Jesus is Word of God. Is any other Prophet called that? The truth is Jesus had the same nature as God himself. To make more sense of this – God, Jesus and Holy Spirit moves in the same current of the Ocean. They are the base Mind, Body, Spirit. God-head, The Father – God-in-Flesh, Jesus and Holy Spirit. Jesus never sinned – even according to Quran. 2000 years ago – people worshipped God without knowing his manifest form. Without knowing him in person. But when Jesus was born – he showed his examples in flesh. Of course, both time and space are needed aspects of manifest reality so Jesus has to come some time as he did 2000 years ago. If he came 5000 years ago, you would have said why not 10,000 years ago and so on and on. You have to start from somewhere. You can say God before 2000 years ago was not as clear to us than it is clear to us now. The truth Islamic God is more like mental whirlpool with no personal or emotional connection. There is no true relationship without an eample, without a connection, without having Father, Child or family relationships just as we have in this world. How can I God sit idly, isolated from the whole world as in Islam we are told? Isn’t relationship and family what God needs too just as we need it? What deems as virtue for us and good for us – Why is that not good for God? In Christianity – God refers us to as his children. The whole creation is his family. He is connected by heart through love first and foremost. Fear is only needed in the world – not in the hearts. In Islam God wants to see your servanthood. Why? Is servant and king and love relationship? There is no heart in it. Only mind! Ball is in your court!
All I am saying is that – I am a Muslim by birth, practice it too, pray too, read quran too but the more I do and the more I look at how the world works – things are not adding up for me. It seems now that the only reason I am staying a Muslim is because of peer pressure or what would my kids say to other kids in the school. That sort of stuff 😛 Not a very good reason to stay Muslim, isn’t it? Why I decided this way? Because I interacted with both Molvis and Priests and tried to understood the nature of God from both of them to be fair – In order to find the true God who I can die with (loving-compassionate God not a fear-mongering never-pleased God?) In all the discussion I had so far – It is clear to me that God of Islam can’t be the true God (not even God as depicted in Surah Ahad). The problem is that no matter how true-sounding you are; you’re not going to keep people in your hearts by force or fear. It simply ain’t the way the world works. Furthermore, you have to show compassion, love and set an example to be called > GOD. Not every Tom, Dick and Harry can be God. God has to be special. He can’t be just too superficial to say that ‘I am so great; so what I created is so awesome’. No Sir! You’re God – it’s not so marvelous to create this world. What’s marvelous is to do what you ask others to do. Take pain and die. Show us your sacrifice – What’s your sacrifice? Can you come down and leave your powers for others? Just as we do everyday for others? Show what you got Sir! Don’t just sit on the throne and have a sip of beer while 20 million kids die of hunger in Africa. Show us that you suffered the same Sir. Any God can create what you created. Otherwise if God’s not like that. Then what’s the God’s Sunnah. Is God’s Sunnah, ‘To hell with you, I don’t care if the whole world becomes disbeliever’. Then I too will follow that God’s Sunnah and say, ‘Okay! to hell with your test, I don’t care about your fear or your sugar-coated lies’. God has to prove by example. It’s just too convenient for him to ask us do this or that while he watches the Pakistan vs Australia match. Might as well have a sip of his favorite beer.