Death Is the Final Frontier
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
12 July
2022
Shops of
Spirituality, the New-Age Fad, and the Business of All Bogus Man-Made Faiths
Are Thriving On the Glorification and Glamourisation of Death
Main
Points:
1. Fear of
death is not just limited to Muslims, but is universal.
2. Death is the
cornerstone of all theological, esp. eschatological, beliefs and it's integral
to all religions, quasi-religions, cults and sub-cults.
3. All
religions concocted a common lie, known as 'soul' and this is indestructible.
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“Peacefully they'll die, peacefully they'll
expire in your name, and beyond the grave they'll find only death. But we'll
keep the secret, and for their own happiness, we'll entice them with a heavenly
and eternal reward."
The Grand Inquisitor to His “Saviour
“in ' The Brothers Karamazov’
Two articles
on death, “Muslim’s Fate
In The Afterlife”
and ” Death Makes
Us Realize How Powerless We Are Before The Divine”, underline humans' ingrained and atavistic
fear of death and a wishfully romantic idea of afterlife (Aaqibat in
Arabic). This fear is not just limited to Muslims, but is universal. In fact,
death is the cornerstone of all theological, esp. eschatological, beliefs and
it's integral to all religions, quasi-religions, cults and sub-cults. From the
perspective of human belief/s, now anthropologists, psychologists and
neuro-scientists unanimously believe that the fear of unknown plus humans'
reluctance to accept the fact that death is the last post or the final
frontier, gave birth to all religions and the concept of god.
Death has
intrigued as well as frightened humans from the very beginning of civilization.
Jean Paul Sartre called it, ' Mankind's Cardinal Conundrum ' and Camus believed
that the death was man's ultimate fear. “What happens when we die “and” Where
do we all go to after death" have always puzzled homosapiens. That's the reason,
not just Islam but all faiths are actually death-centric. Even when all
religions profess to celebrate life, they're all terribly fearful of death and
because of this inveterate fear, the most idiotic concepts of moksha,
salvation, Roz-e-Qayamat, heaven/hell and all that baseless scriptural '
axioms ' came into existence.
If you
carefully study the Afterlife Phenomenon of Semitic as well as Eastern faiths,
you'll realize that all these imaginary concepts are actually miserably failed
attempts to perpetuate life; a sort of a morphine-induced anaesthesia to make
the perpetually frightened humans see some purpose in existence. In other
words, the false and misleading idea of Afterlife cushions us against the
deep-seated fear of death. In other words, it's a religion's lullaby to make
the ill-evolved humans, who're but infants of a larger growth, sleep!
To cut the matter short, nothing exists after
one kicks the bucket. Since this very thought is so discouraging and
disheartening, all religions concocted a common lie, known as 'soul' and this
is indestructible. This gives a false hope to all humans that their existence,
like energy, is everlasting. This is the biggest lie our ancestors ever
fabricated that we've been believing blindly and unquestionably till date
despite so much 'advancement' in all spheres.
The shops
of spirituality, the new-age fad, and the business of all bogus man-made faiths
are thriving on the glorification and glamourisation of death. Your spiritual
gurus, clerics, clergy, priests and scriptures have been leading you up the
garden path that the life after death is eternal and so blissful! My foot!
This
unnecessary glamourisation has spawned a battery of suicide bombers who blow
themselves up, labouring under the misconception that Houries will welcome them
in the heaven.
This is
also an indication of human greed. If you do good here, you'll be rewarded
there. It means, if you're being good, you're not good because you just want to
be good sans expectations and hopes. You're good because you look forward to
getting rewarded for being good after death. What a big nonsense, nay,
cheapness! The very thinking is so selfish and hidebound. But religions know
how to exploit your hidden apprehensions and baser instincts, dwelling upon Afterlife.
Don't sleep around on earth, Allah will provide a retinue of Houries in heaven
to make love to! Don't drink wine in this life, Allah, the greatest tantalizer,
will give you Tahoor (name of some fictional wine, available only in the
paradise!) to quaff from the golden goblets!
So,
continue to believe in the imaginary enjoyments of Afterlife and keep deceiving
yourselves. Don't we say, who has deceived thee as often as thyself?
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A regular
columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative
religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to
world's premier publications in several languages including Persian.
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