Divine Wisdom Is Impossible To Fathom (Sarcasm Intended)
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
27 June
2023
"God Almighty better knows about what
degrades and what elevates.
He does not require the often degrading effects
of human-made gradation.
He has revealed everything that is best for
both male and female humans in the Qur'an. Many times, people fail to
comprehend the wisdom underlying anything. The Quran has repeatedly asked the
believers to ponder over the Verses of God Almighty."
For
thousands of years, believers, priests, apologists, interpreters and exegetes
have been giving a stock reply that god knows better or the divine wisdom is
unfathomable whenever one dares ask the extreme anomalies and contradictions in
the world and god's books. This has been their 'intelligent' way to discourage
those who ask questions and use their brains because no religion has ever
encouraged free thinking. Islam's so-called Ijtihad is the biggest hoax.
Now the
point is: If it's god's ' wisdom' to create beautiful women (Houries) to
satiate men in heaven, why doesn't the same
god make handsome and ever-youthful guys in heaven for the satisfaction
of pious women who lived the life of piety on earth? Why does this whimsical,
patriarchal and anti-pleasure god prohibit wine on earth but allow it in
heaven? What makes him so ridiculously arbitrary?
The learned
Dara Shikoh asked the same questions (and also a few more) in a letter to
Sarmad Kashani, a Persian-speaking Jew who relinquished Judaism and partially
embraced Islam as he never completed the Kalma: La Ilah Illalah
Muhammadur Rasulullah. Sarmad told him that the same questions troubled him
as well and he believed that it was clever men's ploy to keep the servile
humans silent on the issues of god's will. Sarmad wrote back to Dara, " If
there's any god up there, he cannot think so irrationally. It's a human trick
to make Him appear so irrational. Fools think that this arbitrary attribute of
god is His 'wisdom'. But in fact, these are all human aberrations imposed on an
imaginary god." Sarmad was beheaded for his revolutionary beliefs and Dara
was also decapitated for the same reason.
Anthony
Grayling believes that this statement that 'god's ways are inexplicable to men'
are pregnant with sinister motives. This creates a sort of an inferiority
complex among humans when repeated hammer and tongs. It has a psychological
impact on human minds. We all have been indoctrinated for centuries that asking
uncomfortable questions about god and its (no his or her) creations are morally
and religiously sinful; that we're too lowly creatures to question god's
motives and plans. This trick was concocted to make humans feel extremely
inferior and grovelling. It has always been very easy for the cunning priests
in all faiths to guide unquestioning and enslaved humans.
Since the
believers of all religions are somewhat retarded -or they've been rendered as
retarded beings as an outcome of centuries of religiosity- the repeated
refrain, God's ways are inexplicable to men, has acted as a heavy dose of
morphine to benumb our senses. Remember, all religions have destroyed our
righteous sense of self and made us crawling creatures in the court of a
fictional god. Arsh Malsiyani described this so pithily in one of his
quatrains:
Dairo-Haram
Se Aur Toh Haasil Na Kuchh Hua
Sajde Zaroor
Ishq Ki Qeemat Ghat Gaye
Kitna Farebkaar
Hai Ahsaas-E-Bandagi
Hum Manzil-E-Khudi
Se Bahut Door Aa Gaye
(Temple and
mosque could provide nothing/ Albeit, our never-ending genuflections demeaned
our love, Ishq-e-Haqiqi/ What a deceptive this feeling of devotion has
always been/ It has alienated us from the core of our selves).
Yes, this
religiosity has degraded all of us.
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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 the world's premier publications in several
languages including Persian.
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