Discovery, Knowledge, and Extremism - Reasons to Leave Religion (Islam) - A Translation from Arabic

Table of Contents

Preface

PART I: REVOLVING & EVOLVING

1. Clear & Plain .. Easy to Explain

2. The Me’raj .. & a Mirage

3. The Scholars’ Structure .. on Basis with Fracture

4. Prayer, Fasting .. & Facts That Sting

5. Embryo Formation .. & Misinformation

6. Clear the Pollution .. See the Evolution

7. Checking Every Verse .. About the Universe

8. Miscellaneous

9. Conclusion .. It’s a Delusion

PART II: MORE FLAWS .. & BROKEN LAWS

10. No One Can Imitate .. a Book in a Faulty State

11. Revised Edition .. & Dubious Condition

12. Inheritance .. & Intelligence

13. Legends of Prophets .. for Big Profits

PART III: ERUPTION OF CORRUPTION

14. The Old Tale .. Grew a Tail

15. Researchers Slam .. the Heresy of Islam

16. What Was the Motive? .. Gains Were Attractive

17. With the Carrot & Stick .. Training Was Drastic

PART IV: ATROCITY IS LOUD .. TRUTH’S NOT ALLOWED

18. Legalization of Discrimination

19. With Allah’s Will .. They Abuse & Kill

20. When the Cruel .. Seek to Rule

PART V: BELIEVE IT .. OR LEAVE IT

21. Values, Morality .. & Life’s Totality

22. Have Some Wine .. You’ll Be Fine

23. It Shall Stay .. the Fathers’ Way

24. Duty Calls .. to Tear Walls

Conclusion

References

Communicate

Preface

Criticism.. is the friend of belief. Your friend is that who says what is right, not who says you are right. Rather, they are a pair that cannot be separated unless the balance of truth is disturbed. Religion is based on belief; and belief is ideas. No idea should be immune from criticism and skepticism, with full respect for its believers and any noble values it may contain.

Despite the ban imposed by some governments, criticism of religions is useful, important, even necessary, in order to see the truth as truth so we follow it, and to see falseness as falseness so we avoid it, and for the sake of having the empowerment by rightness substitute the rightfulness by power.

Extremism.. is a relative attribute, with a disputable definition that cannot be settled, but I think that its worst form is what leads the holders of some belief to claim that their belief invalidates the other beliefs and that it must be imposed on an entire people, and pushes them to terrorism toward that who disagrees with them, and to harming that person or even killing him|her, whether formally through a government or personally through an extremist individual or group.

Acknowledging that we don’t know all the answers is better for us than taking the wrong answers, delusionally or arrogantly. To see things as they truly are, it is necessary to strip the mind of inherited beliefs so that it gets freed from their influence. That who cannot leave them, at least, when searching or contemplating, he|she should put them in the silent mode.

After the spread of the Internet, and despite the semi-full blockade imposed by the Saudi government against websites critical of religion and politics, I had curiosity and tendency to liberty and exploration of the hidden; so I got into the habit of bypassing the blockade. After some time, I viewed information that was not previously available when governments fully controlled the media and education: What the critics of Islam have published on strong proofs for the humanness of the religion. And by pondering them, with the ability to understand classic Arabic.. I attained awareness, and realized the extent of falsity, and the magnitude of the greatest historical deceit. So I left religion on that basis.

Over the years.. I gathered the strongest proofs, paraphrased them, and finally documented them in this book, along with my own research and thoughts, to arm myself with it in defending my position. Praise and thanks to those who preceded me in discovering and publishing them (Christians and irreligionists), and because of them I knew many of them. These proofs implicate the three Abrahamic religions, as they have the same flaws. No difference between us and the followers of any other religion; the children inherit the beliefs of parents through hundreds of years, and they are mere beliefs.. most of which are delusive, built on fraud and myth, and enticement and intimidation.

To the scholars of Quran and Hadith I say: If you don’t know, then it’s a calamity, and if you know, then the calamity is greater.

Dear reader, the Quran says: Will they not ponder the Quran? Or are there locks upon their hearts? 47:24 I – This book helps you to do that, if you are among those who prefer truth over delusion; it is directed to anyone who believes in the Islamic belief, and anyone who is interested, in order to contribute to the materialization of humanity, freedom and dignity for all people, and the abatement of physical and mental terrorism; and it is a means of defense, not offense, as its main purpose is to record and explain the reasons that pushed me to leave the religion, and more reasons that would make others leave it or avoid it, and to prove that the irreligionist.. left falseness for the sake of becoming on the right path to truth.

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PART I

REVOLVING & EVOLVING

On some scientific errors in the Quran

and proofs of its humanness

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1. Clear & Plain .. Easy to Explain

The Quran was composed in Arabic in order to be understandable to the Arabs:

{We made it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand.} 43:3 I

(ibn-Kathir’s interpretation: In the language of the Arabs, articulate, clear, so that you may comprehend it and think it through.)

(Jalalain’s interpretation: In the language of the Arabs, may you people of Mecca understand its meanings)

{.. an Arabic Quran for a people who know} 41:3 D

(Jalalain: those who understand that, and they are the Arabs)

The words in it.. are clear and explicit, not esoteric, symbolic, or figurative:

{.. We have sent it in clear verses. ..} 22:16 Q

(ibn-Kathir: i.e. perspicuous in their wording and meanings)

{.. sent down the Book to His worshiper (Prophet Muhammad) and has not made any crookedness in it, • unswerving. ..} 18:1-2 Q

(Tabari: straight [...] no crookedness in it, and no deviation from the truth)

(ibn-Kathir: He did not make in it a warp, a deflection, or inclination, rather he made it balanced, straightforward)

{An Arabic Quran, wherein there is no crookedness, ..} 39:28 D

(Tabari: Unambiguous)

(ibn-Kathir: There is no distinction in it, nor is it a deviation, nor an ambiguity, but rather an explanation, clarity, and proof)

It is a comprehensive book for all life affairs:

{.. We have revealed to you the Book, as an explanation of all things ..} 16:89 I

(ibn-Kathir: ibn-Mas’oud said He made clear to us in this Quran every knowledge, and everything. [...] as it contains every beneficial knowledge, such as reports of what happened in the past, information about what is yet to come, what is lawful and unlawful, and what people need to know about their worldly affairs, their religion, their livelihood in this world, and their destiny in the Hereafter.)

This is confirmed by a saying attributed to Omar ibn-al-Khattab, (one of Muhammad’s closest companions, one of the ten who were given good news that they’ll go to Paradise, and one of four described as the Rightly Guided Caliphs,) regarding the thousands of books that were in Persia:

Toss them in water, for if they contain guidance, Allah has guided us with more guidance than it, and if it is misguidance, Allah has protected us. [1]

And regarding the thousands of books that were in the Library of Alexandria: If there is in them what agrees with the Book of Allah, then the Book of Allah suffices us not to use them, and if there is in them what contradicts the Book of Allah, then no need for them. [2]

In it are details of everything; it is not concise nor brief:

{.. A Scripture whose Verses were perfected, then elaborated, from One who is Wise and Informed.} 11:1 I

{Certainly, We have brought to them a Book (the Quran) which We have explained in detail with knowledge ..} 7:52 H

{.. We have explained all things in detail.} 17:12 I

{.. It is not a forged statement but a confirmation of Allah’s existing Books and a detailed explanation of everything ..} 12:111 H

It is described as being preserved from misrepresentation, and free from any error or falseness:

{It is We Who have sent down the Thikr (i.e. the Quran) and surely, We will guard it.} 15:9 H

{.. And verily, it is an honourable respected book • falseness cannot come to it from before it or behind it, sent down by the All-Wise, Worthy of all praise.} 41:41-42 H

(Tabari: Honorable by Allah’s honoring of it, and protecting it from everyone who wants for it replacing, perversion, or alteration [...] A man of falseness cannot change it with his plotting, and replace any of its meanings, [...] nor attach anything that is not of it in it.)

It is described as the words of Allah who knows everything and whose knowledge doesn’t miss anything:

{Surely your god is Allah, the One besides whom there is no other god. He comprehends everything in knowledge.} 20:98 I

{.. that you may know that Allah knows whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth, and that Allah is the Knower of all things.} 5:97 S

{.. so that you know Allah is powerful over all things, and that Allah encompasses everything in knowledge.} 65:12 Q

{Allah– surely nothing is hidden from Him in the earth or in the heaven.} 3:5 S

{With Him are the keys of the unseen, none knows them but He. He knows that which is in the land and sea. No leaf falls except He knows it, and there is no grain in the darkness of the earth, fresh or withered, but is recorded in a clear Book.} 6:59 Q

{Say, My Lord projects the truth. He is the Knower of the Unseen.} 34:48 I

(Tabari: It is the revelation, he brings it down from heaven, and projects it to his Prophet Muhammad [...] Knower of what is absent from sights)

It urges us to contemplate its texts and to follow their clues:

{Do they not ponder the Quran? ..} 4:82 I

(Jalalain: contemplate the Quran and the marvelous meanings in it.)

(Qurtubi: It is obligatory to reflect on the Quran in order to know its meaning. ..)

{Will they not ponder the Quran? Or are there locks upon their hearts?} 47:24 I

(Jalalain: Do they not contemplate the Quran so that they recognize the truth? Or is it that there are locks on their hearts so they do not comprehend it?)

These descriptions with which the Quran characterizes itself.. entail that its texts shown in the following chapters of this book.. are clear and detailed Arabic texts; no way for anyone to elude them by claiming that the meaning is esoteric, symbolic or figurative, or that the Quran is concise or brief, or that it has a special language that only certain persons would understand, or that it is a purely religious book that has nothing to do with natural sciences and cosmic facts.

Note: The letter at the end of a verse refers to the translator. The names of the translators are listed in the references at the end of the book.

[1] History of ibn-Khaldoun v1 p631, al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran by Asfahani p32

[2] Ikhbaar al-Olamaa bi-Akhbaar al-Hukamaa by Qifty p266, History of Mukhtasar al-Duwal by ibn-al-Ibri – Edition 1899 p175

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2. The Me’raj .. & a Mirage

Earth

Mountains

Sky (Heaven)

Earth and Heaven

Sun

Moon

Sun & Moon

Eclipse

Night & Day

Shade

Winds

Me’raj

In the old times.. people looked around them, and saw the Earth extended and flat, and looked above them, and saw the sun, the moon, the stars and the clouds. And in the absence of science.. the belief dominated that the Earth is flat, fixed, extended underneath; and that what’s above them is a sky, extended like a dome, facing it at the top, and that every morning, the sun rises from a place at the east edge of the Earth, goes upward and runs till it goes downward and disappears into a place at the west edge (like the following illustration):

[Image 1]

Such perceptions are still held by some people till this time, including modern scholars of Islam; because their source of knowledge is.. a book named the Quran. The following is a review of some of its content.. for the sake of knowing the truth, and to do the contemplation to which it invited.

Earth

{It is He who stretched out the Earth ..} 13:3 Q

{And the Earth, We spread out ..} 15:19 H

{Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? [...] And the Earth, how it is made a vast expanse?} 88:17-20 S

{And the Earth, We have stretched it forth beneath; an excellent Spreader are We.} 51:48 D

{Who has made the Earth for you a carpet ..} 2:22 D

{And Allah has made the Earth Unto you an expanse.} 71:19 D

{Have We not made the Earth an even expanse?} 78:6 S

Quran: Earth is extended, flat, spread over as an expanse, like a carpet.

These synonyms cooperate to confirm the perception of the authors of the Quran.. that the Earth is like a carpet and not like a ball.

Science: Earth is a planet among the planets, floating in space.

(Jalalain: made a vast expanse clearly indicates that the Earth is a planar surface, which is what the scholars hold as true, not a sphere as said the people of astronomy.)

(Qurtubi: He extended the Earth in length and breadth [...] we spread it like a rug on water [...] It is to answer whoever claims it is like a sphere [...] What the Muslims and the People of the Book hold as true is that the Earth is stationary, still, and extended, and that its movement is by quakes that hit it.)

{Is not He Who has made the Earth as a fixed abode ..} 27:61 H

{And he cast mountains on the Earth, lest it shifts with you ..}16:15 I

{Allah grasps the heavens and the Earth lest they move away from their places ..} 35:41 H

Quran: Earth is fixed, grasped, does not shift nor deviate from its place, and so are the heavens.

Science: Earth is a planet that revolves around itself and around the sun.

(ibn-Kathir: stable and stationary, it does not convulse or move with its people nor shake with them)

Mountains

{And he cast mountains on the Earth, lest it shifts with you ..}16:15 I

{He placed therein (the Earth) firm mountains from above it ..} 41:10 H

{And the mountains, He established them firm} 79:32 D

{and the mountains as pegs} 78:7 Q

{.. the mountains, how they are installed} 88:19 I

Quran: Mountains were thrown into the Earth like pegs.. to stabilize it and to fix it.

Science: Mountains protruded from the ground, as a result of its plates moving, colliding, cracking and bending, or as a result of volcanic activity. [1]

(Jalalain: with which the Earth is tied down, like tents are tied down with pegs)

(ibn-Kathir: When the Earth was created, it was shifting; the angels said: This thing would never hold anyone on its back. So next day the mountains were created. The angels didn’t know from what the mountains were created.)

(Qurtubi: fixed mountains; the Earth is anchored by them, i.e. becomes still; anchoring is stillness [...] they were installed on the Earth, so that it would not depart; that is so because when the Earth was flattened, it tilted, so He moored it with mountains.)

Sky (Heaven)

In Arabic, the term samaa (plural: samawaat) means anywhere at the level of the clouds and above, and it includes the concepts of sky, heaven and firmament. It is probably the only term for these concepts in Arabic. (You can see this in transliterations.) It is the ceiling of any place; thus the ceiling of the house used to be called sama’ah or samawah. [2]

In the time of authoring the Quran.. planets in the language of Arabs meant stars. [3] They include all the objects we see in space. Star is originally a noun for every planet in the sky, and it is more particular for Pleiades (constellation of Taurus). [4] The Arabs didn’t have a notable difference between the two nouns; for example, the annotators said that the term al-Khunnass (in the Quran) refers to the five stars Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter, [5] and these planets, along with the sun and the moon, were referred to as.. the seven roaming planets. [6] This is confirmed by the two texts of the Quran We have adorned the lower heaven with lanterns 67:5 I – and We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the planets, a protection 37:6-7 Q – as the objects that we call planets now.. do not have light and it is not right to describe them as lanterns. So, the planets in the Quran are the stars.

And the text a protection is proof that the intended meaning of planets includes the meteors, which are hurled on demons, and they were referred to as the stoning planets. [7]

{Muhammad said: The superiority of the learned man over the worshiper is like the superiority of the moon on the night when it is full over all the rest of the stars.} [8]

{Have they not observed the sky above them, how We constructed it, and decorated it, ..?} 50:6 I

Transliteration: Afalam yandhuroo ila ‘s’samaa ..

{It is a sending down from Him who has created the earth, and the high heavens.} 20:4 Q

{And indeed, We have put the big stars in the heaven and We beautified it for the beholders} 15:16 H

{We have adorned the lower heaven with lanterns, and made them missiles against the devils ..} 67:5 I

{We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the planets, • a protection against every rebel satan} 37:6 Q

{.. has placed in the heaven big stars, and has placed therein a great lamp (sun), and a moon giving light.} 25:61 H

Quran: The sky is a high, built entity we look at above us, in which there are stars, planets, the sun, and the moon.

Science: Earth is surrounded by those objects from all directions, not just from above it.

{.. He sent down rain upon you from heaven ..} 8:11 D

{.. He sends down water from the sky and with it He revives the Earth ..} 30:24 Q

Quran: The sky is also what water comes down from. So the sky includes the stars and the atmosphere.

Science: The stars are distant objects separated by space; while the atmosphere pertains to the planet, adhering to it. Thus, it is not right to consider the sky an entity that includes the stars and the atmosphere, distinct from Earth.

{Are ye secure that He who is in the heaven will not sink the Earth with you ..} 67:16 D

{It is He who is God in heaven, and God on Earth. ..} 43:84 I

{In the sky is your provision and that which you are promised.} 51:22 Q

{And indeed, We have put the big stars in the heaven and We beautified it for the beholders • And We have guarded it from every outcast Shaitan} 15:16-17 H

Quran: The sky is a separate entity from Earth.

Science: Earth is a planet that floats in the space named sky.

{Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? And at the sky, how it is raised?} 88:17-18 I

{And the heaven, He raised it high ..} 55:7 S

{Allah is He Who raised the heavens without any pillars that you see ..} 13:2 S

{.. the heaven, He constructed it. • He raised its masses, and proportioned it.} 79:27-28 I

{.. the heavens and the Earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them [...] And We have made the heaven a roof, safe and well guarded. Yet they turn away from its signs.} 21:30-32 H

{.. He withholds the heaven from falling on the Earth ..} 22:65 H

Quran: The sky (the entity in which there are stars, planets, the sun, and the moon).. the statement Do they not look means that we can look and see that it’s been raised. So, it’s been raised from something we can look at, which is the Earth. And it is a ceiling built for the Earth, withheld so that it doesn’t fall on it.

This is sure evidence which cuts out doubt.. on the humanness of the Quran, and its authors' ignorance of the nature of the Earth and what’s around it.

(ibn-Kathir: His saying We have made the heaven a roof means, on the Earth; and it is like a dome over it.)

{Who has made the Earth for you a carpet and the heaven a structure ..} 2:22 D

{.. the heaven, He constructed it.} 79:27 I

{And the heaven, We have built it with might, and verily We are powerful.} 51:47 D

{Have they not observed the sky above them, how We constructed it, and decorated it, and it has no cracks?} 50:6 I

Quran: The sky (i.e. the heaven) is a built construction that does not have cracks.

So, it is a continuous structure.. and not space and dust.

(Jalalain: a structure as a ceiling [...] cracks: rifts that blemish it)

(ibn-Kathir: a ceiling for the world [...] The construction is erecting the dome)

(Tabari: According to some of the companions of the Prophet : the structure of the heaven on the Earth is like a dome, and it is a ceiling on the Earth [...] it has no fissures nor ruptures)

(Qurtubi: the heaven to the Earth is like the ceiling to a house [...] it has no irregularity, differences nor ruptures.)

{.. If We will, We can make the Earth cave in beneath them, or make pieces of the sky fall down on them. ..} 34:9 I

{or, until you cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces, as you have claimed, ..} 17:92 Q

He said in pieces, he didn’t say projectiles.

{On that Day, the Event will come to pass • And the heaven will crack; so on that Day it will be frail} 69:15-16 I

{And when the heaven is cleft asunder} 77:9 H

{When the heaven is cleft asunder • And when the stars have fallen and scattered} 82:1-2 H

Quran: The sky which is a ceiling that has the stars in it, will be torn and opened.

Also, the stars will fall scattering on the Earth.

(Tabari: cleft asunder: split, and when its stars have scattered from it, and fallen)

{.. has placed in the heaven big stars, and has placed therein a great lamp (sun), and a moon giving light.} 25:61 H

{We have adorned the lower heaven with lanterns, and made them missiles against the devils ..} 67:5 I

{Except for him who snatches a fragment -he gets pursued by a piercing projectile} 37:10 I

{By the sky, and by the nightly comer • What could let you know what the nightly comer is • (It is) the piercing star} 86:1-3 Q

Quran: The stars are lanterns that decorate the heaven (the ceiling of the Earth), and projectiles hurled at demons. (No distinction between the enormous remote star and the small near meteor.)

Science: The stars are enormous objects, some of which are larger than the sun. As to the object that hits the Earth as if it were a projectile, it is nothing but a meteor.. an object the size of a rock or smaller. [9]

Earth and Heaven

{And We created not the heaven and the Earth and that which is in between in play.} 21:16 D

{He who created the heavens and the Earth and everything between them in six days ..} 25:59 I

{And they estimated not Allah with an estimation due Unto Him whereas the whole Earth shall be His handful on the Day of Judgment, and the heavens shall be rolled in His right hand. ..} 39:67 D

{.. Allah has created seven heavens in storeys} 71:15 D

{.. created seven heavens, and of the Earth the like of them; the decree continues to descend among them, ..} 65:12 S

{Then He rose over towards the heaven when it was smoke, and said to it and to the Earth: Come both of you willingly or unwillingly. They both said We come, willingly.} 41:11 H

The Earth and the heaven or heavens are paired in plenty of texts.. in a way that they form a proportionate couple. This appears clearly with the phrase "the