Muslims Need To Introspect Why So Many Muslims Are Leaving Islam And Proudly Declaring Themselves Apostate
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
25 April
2022
Is it not a
puzzling thing for a non-Muslim to know that 6.7 million Pakistanis are
addicted to drugs (heroin, marijuana, amphetamine etc.) but not to alcohol?
Because alcohol is forbidden, but not drugs in the Islamic scriptures. Though
all man-made faiths are scripture-driven, Islam is particularly stubborn and
completely unyielding on this count. What's written in the Quran and Hadees,
must be followed in Toto is a typical mentality that almost all Muslims
possess.
A couple of
years ago in London, I was having dinner with an Oxford-educated ex-Muslim,
whose highly educated parents migrated from Sargodha, (Punjab province in
Pakistan) and settled in England. I asked him the reason why he left Islam and
turned a Murtad (Arabic for an apostate). He told me that when his
parents insisted that his (that ex-Muslim's) child must undergo Khatna
(circumcision), he resisted and thought that it was the last straw on the
camel's back. He had an English wife who willy-nilly converted to Islam. The
couple realized that this religious insistence would go on so long as they were
in the fold of Islam because before the insistence on circumcision, both were
forced to have only halal meat as Jhatka meat was strictly forbidden at home
and outside as well. They resented this religious totalitarianism and decided
to relinquish not just Islam but all organized faiths, created and concocted by
our troglodyte ancestors. They're now atheists and vowed never to tie
themselves to the apron-strings of any damn faith and god, Bhagwan or Khuda.
That's inconsequential. Point is: What does Allah have to do on Roz e-Hashr
(The Day of Judgement) with your circumcision, halal meat and beard if you
killed or hurt your fellow humans on earth and did all sorts of knavery while
alive? Aren't you cheapening your Creator by relegating Him to the level of
humans who tend to judge others on the basis of exceedingly petty issues of
everyday interest?
That apart,
if you strictly look at Islamic practices, many rituals in Islam percolated
from the first and preceding Semitic faith, Judaism, though strangely, Islam
and Judaism have been at loggerheads with each other right from the inception
of Islam a little over 1400 years ago. Circumcision, halal (Kosher in Judaism)
and abhorring pork are common practices that both the Semitic faiths share. Now
you'll be surprised to know that barring the Orthodox Jews, a few Jews are not
subjecting their male-offspring to circumcision. Nor are they insisting on
having only Kosher meat. Though they may be few in numbers, at least the
beginning has taken place, because breaking the ceiling is of paramount
importance. But where's that beginning in Islam? Every Muslim child, however
'educated', 'enlightened' or 'evolved' his parents may be, has to undergo
circumcision as an ancient Abrahamic practice and every Muslim will have to eat
halal meat. Muslims (and followers of other faiths as well) don't understand
that all ritualistic practices have their roots in geographical and
circumstantial requirements of the times and climes their religion originated
in bronze age.
Islam and
also Judaism originated from places where there was a dire scarcity of water.
Smegma (a white substance) is deposited under the prepuce (foreskin), if a man
cannot bathe for long and clean that part (genitals). When drinking water was
barely available, bathing was a luxury in the desert. So, to nip this
persistent problem of the deposition of smelly smegma in the bud, foreskin used
to be removed in a crude manner, resulting in frequent deaths. Na Rahe Baans(pun
intended), Na Baje Baansuri! But now when water is available everywhere
and one can bathe every day even in Saudi Arabia, the place of the origin of
Islam, what's the need to remove the prepuce? But humans would rather be ruined
than change their hoary-old religious practices, however silly they may appear
in modern times and evolving circumstances. The same can be said about Kosher
and Halal.
The
pre-Semitic Pagans believed that blood of humans and animals carried all the
impurities and curses of dead enemies. So, animals were koshered to drain out
all the blood. Now, modern medical science has confirmed that meat, whether
halal or Jhatka, gets hygienically edible when cooked at high temperature and
washed properly. Dearth of water was again the reason for halal as washing the
flesh of the butchered animal needed abundance of water.
Moreover,
halal doesn't have an edge over Jhatka meat in taste and cleanliness. Ergo,
there's no need to put a poor animal through excruciatingly painful Dhai-Chhuri(two
and a half times slitting the throat), ironically reciting Kalma, La Ilaha
Illallah Mohammad Rasoolullah. Muslims across the globe need to introspect
to purge their faith of antediluvian practices, customs and rituals.
Lastly, though Islam prohibits alcohol, its scriptures tempt the
followers with it in the heaven. Didn't an Urdu poet say, ' Jannat Ki Tahoor
Bhi Aakhir Sharaab Hai/MujhKo Na Le Chalo Wahan Meri Neeyat Kharaab Hai'
(After all, Tahoor, an imaginary wine available only in Jannat, is also
alcohol. So, please don't take me there to test my piety). Not only that,
according to the ridiculous subcontinental preachers of Islam, mostly based in
Pakistan, Allah will himself serve wine to the inmates of Firdaus! If
this is not blasphemy, what else is? Will any sane Muslim tell me?
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