DESTINATION- Allah's Brothel
CONCEPT
OF JAHELIA:
According to Islamic theology, the jahelia
(or darkness of ignorance) was prevailing throughout the entire world during the
pre-Islamic days, and it was Almighty Allah, Who, by revealing the Koran,
separated light of truth from the darkness of false-hood. Hence the other name
of the Koran is Forkan or that
separates light and darkness. Though some Muslim intellectuals and clerics try
to propagate the notion that Islam means peace (only to confuse the non-Muslim kafirs),
the Arabic word Islam stands for surrender. Or more pointedly, unconditional
surrender to Allah’s revealed book Koran and Allah’s Prophet Muhammad.
Furthermore, Islam as a creed is a package and every Muslim must have blind
faith in the totality, or in every aspect of it. In Islam, free thinking is a
taboo and no Muslim has the right to question the contents of Koran and Hadis
(or Prophet’s Tradition). Allah has already laid down the truth and hence it
is useless spend time and energy in re-discovering the same. So it is the duty
of every Muslim to accept the truth revealed by Allah without any question, and
to explain and propagate the said truth.
The Muslims of our country, almost all of whom were converted either from
Hinduism or Buddhism, are not beyond the boundary of Islam. As soon as they have
embraced Islam, they have sacrificed their right to free thinking and have
blindly surrendered to the most unscientific and irrational diktats of Koran and
Hadis. So every Muslim of this country have mended their thought process
according to the demand of the faith and, in fact, most of them have lost their
rationality and power of thinking by following the faith for centuries.
Therefore every Muslims maintain that he is following a religion which is far
better than the religion of his ancestors. He believes that he is lucky enough
to have the privilege of following the most up to date message of God. He even
condemns his ancestors, as they were the people the said period of jahelia.
It
is therefore necessary to make a comparative study of two religions, namely
Hinduism and Islam, so that a common man may evaluate the two religions himself
from an unbiased platform. At the out set, it should be made clear that man
began his journey as a food gatherer and that he advanced himself to the
pastoral way of life after domestication of animals. Till then he had to lead a
nomadic life. It is evident that a nomadic life style is unsuitable for
advancement of learning, or for spread of knowledge and education. The
civilisation began when man could raise himself from a pastoral and nomadic life
to an agricultural life style. Agricultural life style provided him with a
permanent address, and this permanent habitation at particular place gradually
led to the formation of modern state with its administrative, judicial along
with its army and institutions for maintenance of law and order. So it can
safely be said that Agriculture is the womb of modern civilisation.
Scholars
agree that India went agricultural well before the age of Rigveda and hence
Hindu Dharma is definitely a product superior agricultural civilisation. But in
the peninsula of Arabia, where Islam originated, land is semi-desert in nature
and rain fall is scanty, and due to these two geographical compulsions
agriculture is an impossible task, and this has arrested its advancement into
the agricultural stage of civilisation. So pastoral and nomadic way of life
still prevails in Arabia. So it becomes evident that Islam is a fruit pastoral
civilisation and hence it is inferior to Hinduism. Furthermore, the originators
of Judaism, Islam and the present day doctrinal Christianity were nomadic and
illiterate pastoral people, while proponents of basic philosophy and spiritual
ideology Hinduism were highly educated and spiritually elevated agricultural
people, called Risis.
The
reader can discover other evidence in favour of the fact that pastoral
civilisation still prevails in the peninsula of Arabia. An agricultural society
has no other option but to follow a solar calendar, as the changes of seasons,
or rather the seasons of sowing and reaping depends absolutely on the annual
movement of the sun. But the people of Arabia are being able to manage their day
to day life, even today, by following a lunar Hijri calendar, as the Arabian
society is pastoral and do not need farming for its survival. So it becomes
evident that the basic concepts of Hinduism should be far more superior to those
of Islam, as the latter is the product of inferior pastoral civilisation.
A comparative narration of all the aspects of Hinduism and Islam would be
voluminous. So the author of this article has confined his discussion to two
aspects, (1) creation of this Universe and the (2) final or ultimate destination
which these two religions cherish to attain. There is another motive of writing
this article. It carries a request to our Muslim brothers to go through it with
an unbiased mind so as to assess
religious creed they are following.
FUNDAMENTAL
CONCEPTS OF HINDU DHARMA:
The
essence of Hindu philosophy is that the ultimate reality of this phenomenal
world is the cosmic consciousness Brahma,
which is formless and beyond the perception of our senses. A verse of Mundaka
Upanisad says that, Brahma, with the help of Its ascetic power inflated
Itself and thus matter was created.
By ascetic power Brahma
inflated Itself
And
thus matter arise;
From
matter, life (prana), mind and all the senses
And
the entire world, and deathlessness in works (karma).
(I, i, 8)
Regarding
creation of this Universe, Hindu tradition says that, a thousand Mahayuga
of 4,320000 years each make one Kalpa,
which is a time period of 4.32 billion years. One Kalpa is the day of the Creator Brahmaa
called Sristi or sarga, or creation,
while the next Kalpa is the night of Brahmaa
called Pralaya, or pratisarga, or
destruction; and these Sristi and Pralaya,
or sarga and pratisarga are
occurring cyclically. During the day or Sarga,
formless or Un-manifested Brahman
assumes form and manifests into this perceptible world, and during Pratisarga,
Brahman again returns to Its formless and un-manifested state which
is beyond the perception of our senses. So the Bhagvadgita says,
For
a thousand ages lasts
One day of (creator) Brahma,
And
for a thousand ages one such night;
This knowing, men will know (what is meant by) day and night. (8,17)
At the day’s dawning all things manifest
Spring
forth from the Unmanifest;
And
at nightfall they dissolve again
In (that
same mystery) surnamed ‘Unmanifest’.(8,
18)
Yea, this whole host of beings
Comes ever anew to be;
at the fall of night
It
dissolves away all helpless;
At dawn of day it rises up (again).(8,
19)
The
basis of all these calculations is that, at a regular interval of a Mahayuga
of 4,320,000 years, all the planets in the sky comes to a closest possible or,
more pointedly, in a straight line with the asterism Ashwini ( β and γ Arietis) in the zodiacal sign Aries (Mesha).
All the eminent Hindu astronomical texts as well as other scriptures, e.g. Manusamhita, Yajnavalkya
Samhita etc. mention this astronomical phenomenon, About this conjunction,
the Encyclopaedia of Astrology,
published by the New York based Astrological Research society, says, “This
Mahayuga of the Hindus is a period of
approximately 4,320,000 years, in which they say that all the planets recur at
nearly the same position. The astronomer Stuart showed that this is correct and
the period is 4,319,936.8663 years; at the end of which Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn return to a position in the fixed Zodiac about 20
degrees behind where they started. He found this also applies to new planets
Uranus and Neptune and that an increase in the period of Pluto of only one part
in 100,000, or 0.001 per cent, will also bring it to recurrence”.
All
these has been told to show that Hindu Dharma
is not based on utterly irrational and childish stories that, one fine morning
God created this world from nothingness. According
to the Christian belief, God created this universe only in 4004 B.C. According
to Islamic scriptures, Allah created this heaven and earth in five days, on the
sixth day He created first pair of man and woman, Adam and Hawa, and Prophet
Muhammad, born in 570 AD, was the 90th descendant of Adam. So simple
calculations lead us to accept that, Allah has created this heaven and earth
only 4137 years ago, (considering 30 years to be the gap between two successive
generations). Furthermore, according to these Semitic religions, God or
Allah will destroy His creation on the Day of Last Judgement or Qyamah.
So, according to these beliefs, the creation is a linear and transient process.
From time infinitely past, God or Allah remained inactive. Only 4000 to 5000
years ago, He became active, created this world, without any raw material, which
He will rule for a short period, up to the Day of Last Judgement. And after that
He will destroy His creation and the drama will end. It is obvious that no
rational mind will be ready to contribute to such childish stories unless he is
compelled do so at the point of sword.
But
according to the Hindu scriptures, this Universe undergoes cyclical process of
creation and destruction and the process goes on through eternity. As mentioned
above, creation goes on for 4.32 billion years followed by an equal period of
destruction. The said 4.32 billion years of creation is a day of Prajapita
Brahmaa while the next 4.32 billion years of destruction is a night for Him.
So, 8.64 billion years make a day and night of Brahmaa,
called a Braahma Day. Such 360 Braahma
days, or 3110.4 billion years make one year of Brahmaa
(0r a Braahma year). The life span
of Brahmaa is 100 Braahma years or 311040 billion human years, which is also the life
span of this creation. According to Hindu tradition, this Universe was created
155521971221106 years, or 155521.971221106 billion years ago from present. After
the passage of 100 Braahma years this
universe with all its contingent beings would dissolve and a new creation under
the supervision of a new Brahmaa would
begin.
The
present phase of creation began with the beginning of the current Shwetavaraha
kalpa 1971221106 or nearly 1.971 billion years ago. Hindu astronomical texts
divide a kalpa into 14 Manus
or Manvantaras and hence one Manwantara
becomes 308448000 years or 308.448 million years. According to the Hindu
tradition, after the beginning of the Shwetavaraha
kalpa, 6 Manus have
passed and the 7th or Vaibasvat
Manwantara is in currency. The Bhagavat
Purana says that the King Uttanapata,
the father of Dhruva, ruled the earth
during the era of first or Swayambhuva
Manu, and hence one has to conclude that the King Uttanapata
reigned nearly 1.97 billion years ago. So far, scientists of the Darwinian
school used to pooh-pooh all this Hindu conclusions. Recently, Michael A. Cremo,
an American researcher, in his books Forbidden
Archaeology and Devolution of Man,
has conclusively proved that human beings existed 2 billion years ago and there
is no doubt that, Mr Cremo’s findings substantiate the narration of the Bhagavat
Purana.
There
is also a major difference between Hindu Dharma
and the religions like Islam and Christianity. Both Christianity and Islam
contemplate a God more or less like a human being, who resides in Heaven and
controls the world from His far away heaven, more or less through a process of
remote control. According to the faith of Islam, the height of Allah is 60
cubits and His face is like humans’. Moreover He has human like attributes
such anger, envy, pleasure and so on. According Hindu philosophy, such an Allah,
with such mundane attributes, must be perishable. On the contrary, the God of
Hindu Dharma is formless and possess no attribute. The only quality He
possess is consciousness. This God of the Hindus is called Brahman, or Atman, Who is
pervades entire time and space, is finer than the finest and beyond the
perception of our senses. This Brahman
is the ultimate constituent of every contingent being and regulates or controls
every worldly phenomenon from within. So the Mundaka
Upanisad says,
For
divine and formless is the Person:
What
is without and what is within are His:
Unborn
(is He), - pure, brilliant.
He
is not breadth, nor mind,
He,
the All-highest, beyond the Imperishable.(II.i.2)
From
Him springs forth the breath of life,
Mind
and all the senses too,
Sky,
wind and light and water
And the earth that all
sustains.(II.i.3)
This
concept is fully consistent with modern science.
Another
special feature of Hindu Dharma is the
concept of rebirth. The basis of this concept is that, the Soul or Self of man
is Brahman, and hence imperishable, while the material body is
perishable. So when a man dies, his body perishes, while the soul enters a new
body and thus the life is continued. After each death, man receives a new life
with a new body and it happens as an automatic process. This new life would be
better or worse from the earlier one according to his deeds of past lives. Good
work leads to a better, while bad works to a worse life. So the Bhagavadgita
says,
Never
is He born nor dies;
Never
did He come to be, nor will he ever come to be again;
Unborn,
eternal, everlasting He – primeval;
He is not slain when the
body is slain.
(II.20)
As
man casts off his worn-out clothes
And
takes on other new ones;
So
does the embodied soul casts off his worn-out bodies
And enters others new.
(II.22)
WHAT
A HINDU SHOULD ASPIRE FOR:
Hindu
scriptures offer four goals before every man to be fulfilled in this life, dharma,
artha, kama and moksha. Two of
them, artha and kama, are material and the remaining two are ethical and spiritual.
Out of these four, moksha is the
highest aspiration of human life, the highest and the ultimate spiritual
attainment of man. Literally, moksha
stands for liberation, and more pointedly, liberation from the unending cycles
of birth and rebirth. But the path to obtain Moksha
is very difficult, as difficult as the sharp edge of a razor. When a man
realises that only Brahma exists in
this vast Universe and all contingent beings in this Universe are nothing but Brahma
appearing in infinite hues and shapes, and he himself is also Brahma,
then he becomes Brahmavid or a seer
and liberates himself infinite cycles of birth and rebirth or obtains Moksha.
This realisation comes after complete renunciation from all worldly things of
pleasure, purification of soul by giving up lust, greed, anger, violence and
continuous musing of Brahma, tapasya and other austere practices. Thus when a sadhaka
purifies his body and soul like Brahma,
he attains Brahma as pure water mixes with pure water (Katha Upanisad-II,I,15). Such a Brahmavid
himself becomes Brahma and hence the Mundaka
Upanisad says, “Whoever
really knows that all-highest Brahman, really becomes Brahman. … Transcending
grief, transcending evil, relieved from the knots (of birth and rebirth), he
becomes immortal”(III,ii,9). Thus Hinduism is a way of life that
firstly elevates man from animality to humanity and finally, from humanity to
divinity.
HIGHEST
SPIRITUAL ATTAINMENT IN ISLAM:
The highest spiritual attainment in Islam is entering Alla’s Paradise
and live there for eternity. On the ‘Day of Resurrection’ or Qiyamah, Allah will forgive every sins of his beloved believers and
allow them to enter his Paradise due to the only merit of their belief in
Allah’s Koran and the Prophet-hood of Muhammad, or simply for the merit of
believing in the first Kalema or Kalema
Taib that reads, “La Ilaha Illallah,
Mohmmadur Rasulullah”. On that
day, Allah will raise each and every human being from their graves and assemble
them to assess their deeds in this world and hence to send them to either hell
or heaven. The people would be assembled
on the Day of Resurrection bare footed, naked and uncircumcised (Sahih
Muslim: 6844, 6846, 6847). It should
be noted here that Islamic scriptures
gives no clue whether Allah is circumcised. In one occasion Ayesha asked,
“Will the male and the female be
together on that day and would they be looking at one another?” Allah’s
Messenger visibly became annoyed with this vexed question
and replied, “The matter would be too
serious for them to look at one another” (Sahih Muslim: 6844). “On
the Day of Resurrection, Allah would bring the sun very close to the people and
there would be left only a distance of one mile” (Sahih Muslim: 6852).
After the judgement, each and every Muslim, due to the merit of believing in
Allah’s Koran and the Allah’s Prophet Muhammad, would be admitted into the
paradise, while the entire lot of non-Muslims (kafirs)
will be thrown into hell-fire. It should also be mentioned here that, Allah will
be extremely cruel to Hindus as they are idolatrous. So Koran says, “You (the disbeliever or the kafir)
and all your idols shall be the fuel of Hell; therein you all go down. Were they
true gods, your idols would not go there; but in they shall abide for ever. They
shall groan with pain and be bereft of hearing”(21:98-100).
The wisdom of Allah has created eight kinds of Paradise to maintain a hierarchy among the believers and these are (1) Kheld, (2) Dar-es-salam, (3) Darul, (4) Adan, (5) Nayeem, (6) Mawa, (7) Alluyin and (8) Ferdaus. Best places of the Paradise are reserved for Prophets, the martyrs of jihad and ghazis or slayers of infidels. So the Koran say“We shall pardon your (believer’s) evil deeds admit you with all honour to Paradise” (4.31). “Allah will not forgive those who serve other gods besides him. … He that serves other gods besides him is guilty of a heinous sin” (4.48). “Allah will not forgive idolatry. He will forgive all other sins. He says that who serves other gods besides Allah has strayed far from the truth” (4.116). “Allah will do away with their (believers’) foulest deeds” (39,35).
As
mentioned above, the believers would find places in different kinds of Paradise
according to their hierarchy, and hence-“The
(common) inmates of the paradise will look to the upper apartment of the
paradise as you see the planets in the sky (Sahih Muslim: 6788 & 6789).
And all those, who do not believe in Islam, will thrown into hell-fire.
The
fire in Hell would be quite different from ordinary. It would be 70 times more
intense than mundane fire (Sahih Muslim: 6811). The wisdom of Allah has created
seven categories of Hell to suit different kinds of kafirs and the intensity of
fire and height of the flames will be different in these Hells. In some Hell,
fire will reach the ankles, somewhere it will reach the knees, somewhere to
whose waists and somewhere to the collar-bones (SM: 6815, 6816). Hindus
are not simple kafirs, but kafirs of the worst kind, as they are idol worshipers. As a
punishment for this fault as well as for the most serious fault of creating
partners to Allah by way of worshiping other gods, they would therefore be
thrown into Havia, the most tormenting
Hell, where the height of the flames of hell-fire would reach one’s scalp.
While the Jews and Christians, for their merit of not being idolatrous, would
thrown into less tormenting Hell.
In
this eternal Hell-fire, Allah would roast the kafirs again and again, and every time He will replace their skins
with new ones, so that they could suffer this inhuman torture without any pause
(Koran- 4:56). There will be no death for the inmates of the Paradise and no
death for the inmates of the Hell (SM: 6827, 6829), and this announcement will
increase the delight of the dwellers of the Paradise, while it would increase
the grief of the inmates of the Hell (SM: 6830). Furthermore, the kafirs
in Hell would have very strange appearances. For example, the molar tooth or the
canine tooth of an unbeliever in Hell would be like Uhud
(a hill in the neighbourhood of Mecca) and the thickness of his skin would be
three night’s journey (SM: 6831) and the distance between his two shoulders
would also be three night’s journey for a swift rider (SM: 6832). Muhammad has
seen Amr bin Luhayy bin Qama, brother of Bani Ka’b, dragging his intestines
(for the sin of introducing
idolatry in Arabia) in Hell fire (SM:6838).
BELIEVERS
IN PARADISE:
While
the unbelievers will perish in Hell, the believers, though fallen and evil
doers, will joyfully enter Allah’s Paradise where there are rivers of pure
water, milk, pure honey and divine wine are flowing and the Koran says, “Allah will do away with their foulest deeds” (39:35). “As
for those who led the way, the First of the muhajirs
(Muslims migrated from Mecca to Medina) and the ansar
(Muslims of Medina who helped muhajirs)
, and those who nobly followed them, Allah is pleased with them and they with
Him. He has prepared for them gardens watered by running streams, where they
shall dwell for ever. That is the supreme triumph”(9:100). “He will forgive, you
your sins and admit you to gardens
watered by running streams; He will
lodge you in pleasant mansions in the garden of Eden. That is the supreme
triumph” (61:12).
“This
is the Paradise which the righteous (Muslims) have been promised. There shall
flow in it rivers of unpolluted water, and rivers of ever fresh milk; rivers of
delectable wine and rivers of clearest honey. They shall eat therein every fruit
and receive forgiveness from their Lord” (47.15).
In
a hadis narrated by Abu Huraira, a close companion of prophet Muhammad, Allah,
the Exalted and Glorious, said, “I have
prepared (the paradise) for My pious servants which no eye has ever seen, no ear
has ever heard, and no human heart has ever perceived but it is testified by the
book of Allah. … No soul knows what comfort has been concealed from them, as a
reward for what they did” (Sahih Muslim: 6779, 6780, 6781, 6782 &
6783).
“In
paradise, there is a street to which they (the inmates of paradise) would come
every Friday, The north wind will blow and would scatter fragrance on their
faces and on their clothes and would add to their beauty and loveliness”(Sahih
Muslim: 6792). In paradise, there is a tree under the shadow of which a rider of a fine
and swift footed horse would travel for a hundred years without covering the
distance completely (Sahih Muslim: 6784, 6785, 6786 & 6787). “In
paradise there would be for a believer a tent of a single hollowed pearl the
breath of which would be sixty miles” (Sahih Muslim: 6804).
“… the breath of which would be
sixty miles from all sides” (Sahih Muslim: 6805).
The height of which would be sixty miles. In each corner, there would be
a family of the believer, out of sight of the other (Sahih Muslim: 6806).
“In paradise there would be two rivers Saiban
and Jaiban. Beside that, people would
find Euphrates and Nile are all among the rivers of paradise” (Sahih
uslimM: 6807).
To
describe Islamic Paradise, Sir W. Muir writes, “Rest and passive enjoyment;
verdant gardens watered by murmuring rivulets, wherein the believers, clothed in
green silk brocades and silver ornaments, repose beneath the wide-spreading
shade on couches well furnished with cushions and carpets, drink the sweet
waters of the fountains, and quaff aromatic wines such as the Arab loved from
goblets placed before them or handed round in silver cups resplendent as glass
by beautiful youths; while clusters fruit hang close by inviting the hand to
gather them; - such is the paradise framed to captivate the inhabitant of the
thirsty sterile Mecca. Another element is soon added to complete the Paradise of
the pleasure-loving Arabs –”Theirs
shall be gardens and vineyards, and damsels with swelling bosoms, of an equal
age, and a full cup” (78,31). …..”In
the oft described shady garden ‘with fruits and meats, and beakers of wine
causing not the head to ache, neither disturbing the reason’, these damsels of
the paradise are introduced as “Lovely
large-eyed girls resembling pearls hidden in their shells, a reward for that
which the faithful have wrought. …Verily We have created them of a rare
creation; We have made them virgins, fascinating, of an equal age
“(52:21).
The
believers after entering Paradise would assume completely changed appearances
and hence the hadis of Sahih Muslim says,
“The (members) of the first group to get into the paradise would have their
faces as bright as full moon during the night, and the next group would have
their faces as bright as the shining stars in the sky” (Sahih Muslim:
6793). Not only their appearances but also their physiology as well
as metabolic activities would also be greatly altered. “The members of the first group that would be admitted to the paradise
would have their faces as bright as the full moon during the night. They would
neither spit nor suffer catarrh, nor void excrement. They would have their
utensils and their combs made of gold and silver and the fuel of their braziers
would be aloes and their sweat will be musk and every one of them would have two
spouses (so beautiful) that the marrow of their shanks would be visible through
the flesh. There would be no dissension amongst them and no enmity in their
hearts”.(Sahih Muslim: 6797, 6798, 6800). They (the dwellers of paradise) would neither pass water, nor void
excrement, nor will they suffer from catarrh, nor will they spit, and their
combs would be made of gold, and their sweat will be musk, the fuel of their
brazier will be aloes, and their wives will be large-eyed maidens and their form
would be alike as one single person after the form of their father (Adam) sixty
cubits tall (Sahih Muslim: 6795, 6796).
To
describe His Paradise, Allah, in Koran, says, “The
righteous shall surely dwell in bliss. Reclining upon soft couches they will
gaze around them; and in their faces you shall mark the glow of joy. They shall
drink of a pure wine, securely sealed, whose very dregs are musk, for this let
all men emulously strive; a wine tempered with the waters of Tasnim,
a spring at which the favoured will refresh themselves” (36.5-22).
“But
the true servants of Allah shall be well provided for, feasting on fruit, and
honoured in the gardens of delight. Reclining face to face upon soft couches,
they shall be served with a goblet filled at a gushing fountain, white and
delicious to those who drink. It will neither dull their senses nor befuddle
them” (37: 47).
As for the
righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and vineyards, and
high-bosomed maidens for companions: a truly overflowing cup”.(78:
31)
“But
in fair gardens the righteous shall dwell in bliss, rejoicing in what their Lord
will give them. They shall recline on couches ranged in rows. To dark-eyes
houris, We shall wed them. Fruits we shall give them, and such meats as they
desire. They will pass from hand to hand a cup inspiring no idle talk, no sinful
urge; and there shall wait on them young boys of their own as Fair
as virgin pearls” (52:17-24).
“But for those that fear the majesty of their Lord there are two gardens
planted with shady trees. Which of your Lord's blessings would you deny? Each is
watered by a flowing spring. Each bears every kind of fruit in pairs. They shall
recline on couches lined with thick brocade, and within their reach will hang
the fruits of both gardens.” (55: 46-55)
“The
righteous shall drink of a cup tempered at the Camphor Fountain, a gushing
spring at which the servants of Allah will refresh themselves: Allah will,
reward them for their steadfastness with robes of silk and the delights of
Paradise. Reclining there upon soft couches, they shall feel neither the
scorching heat nor the biting cold. Trees will spread their shade around them,
and fruits will hang in clusters over them. They shall be served with silver
dishes, and beakers as large as goblets; silver goblets which they themselves
shall measure; and cups brim-full with ginger- flavoured water from the Fount of
Selsabil.”
(76:5-18)
“On that day there shall be radiant laces, of men
well-pleased with their labours, in a lofty garden. There they shall hear no
idle talk. A gushing fountain shall be there, and raised soft couches with
goblets placed before them; silken cushions ranged in order and carpets richly
spread” (88:8-16).
”The
righteous shall surely dwell in bliss. Reclining upon soft couches they will
gaze around them: and in their faces you shall mark the glow of joy. They shall
drink of a pure wine, securely sealed, whose very dregs are musk, for this let
all men emulously strive; a wine tempered with the waters of Tasnim,
a spring at which the favoured will refresh themselves. (83:22-28)
HOURIES
The
chief attractions of Allah’s Paradise are houries
or Heavenly damsels, who are virgins, chaste, dark eyed with swelling bosoms and
never become older than 16 and the Koran says, “as
for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens and
vineyards, and high-bosomed maidens for companions: a truly overflowing cup” (78:31-34).
“They shall sit with bashful, dark-eyed
virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches. Surely that is the
supreme triumph. Let every man labour to achieve it” (37; 48-50).
“And
theirs shall be dark-eyed houris,
chaste as hidden pearls: a guerdon for their deeds. They shall recline on
couches raised on high in the shade of thornless sidrahs
and clusters of talh; amidst gushing
waters and abundant fruits, unforbidden. never-ending. We created houris
and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand: a
multitude from the men of old, and a multitude from the later. …And theirs
shall be dark-eyed houris, chaste as hidden pearls: a guerdon for their deeds.
They shall recline on couches raised on high in the shade of thornless sidrahs
and clusters of talh; amidst gushing
waters and abundant fruits, un-forbidden. never-ending. We created houris
and made them virgins, loving companions for those on the right hand: a
multitude from the men of old, and a multitude from the later”(56:22-40).
“They
(the dwellers of Paradise) shall live with bashful virgins whom neither
man nor jinnee will have touched before. They would be virgins, as fair as
corals and rubies. Which of your Lord's blessings would you deny? And beside
these there shall be two other gardens of darkest green. A gushing fountain
shall flow in each. Each planted with fruit-trees, the palm and the pomegranate.
In each there shall be virgins chaste and fair. Which of your Lord's blessings
would you deny? Dark-eyed virgins sheltered in their tents whom neither man nor
jinnee will have touched before. They shall recline on green cushions and rich
carpets. Which of your Lord's blessings would you deny?
Blessed be the name of your Lord, the Lord of majesty
and glory!” (55:56-78).
”As for the righteous, they shall dwell in peace together amidst gardens
and fountains, arrayed in rich silks and fine brocade. Yes, and We shall wed
them, to dark-eyed houris.
Secure against all ills, they shall call for every
kind of fruit; and, having died once, they shall die no more. Your Lord will
through His mercy shield them from the scourge of Hell. That will be the supreme
triumph.” (44:51-57)
“There
would be an announcer in Paradise who would make this announcement: Verily,
there is in store for you (everlasting) health and that you should never fall
ill and that you live (for ever) and do not die at all. And that you would
remain young and never grow old. …This
is Paradise. You have been made to inherit it for what you used to do” (Sahih
Muslim: 6803).
Regarding
these houris, Sir W. Muir says “It is remarkable that the notices in the
Koran of this voluptuous paradise are almost confined to a time when, whatever
the tendency of his desires, Mohammad was living a chaste and temperate life
with a wife threescore years of age” (Life of Mahomet, Voice of India, New
Delhi, 1992, pp-76). There is another point to note. So long the Prophet lived
in Mecca with his only wife Khadija, houris
were simply rewards of Allah. But later, after the death of Khadija, when the
Prophet started marrying several wives, houris
became legal wives. So Allah said, Every
person would have two wives and the marrow of their shanks would glimmer beneath
the flesh and there would be none without a wife in paradise (Sahih Muslim:
6793).
It is not clearly specified how many of these heavenly damsels a believer
in Paradise would get. As quoted above, somewhere Allah says that each believer
would get two houries as their wives.
Somewhere Allah promises many, e.g. He allots 72 of them for the saheeds, who
die in fighting for Allah’s cause. But extreme sensuality of the Prophet of
Arabia has been reflected in a hadis narrated by Abu Huraira, that says, even
the most wretched, the most fallen believer in Allah’s
Paradise would own a vast compound which would contain seventy mansions of
pearls, every mansion would contain seventy houses of rubies, every house would
have seventy rooms of emeralds, every room would contain seventy couches, and
every couch would be covered with seventy carpets of every colour, and a houri
would be sitting on each carpet. Furthermore, every such above mentioned
rooms would have seventy tables laid out, and on every table there would be
seventy dishes of seventy colours and every
room would also have seventy maid slaves. Every believer would have the
capability of copulating with each of these houris and maids. Simple
calculations will show that the believer
will get (70 x 70 x 70 x 70 x 70=) 1,680,700,000 or 1.6807 billion houris.(Ram
Swarup, Understanding Islam Through Hadis, Voice of India, New Delhi, 1983,
p-205)
According another hadis narrated by Abu Sa’id, all these women would
put on see-through garments. Each houri will have seventy garments, but the believer will be able to
look through them and see the marrow of the bones of her legs. The houri
will have a crown on her head, the meanest pearl of which would give light
between the east and the west. According to another tradition mentioned by
Aldous Huxley, every orgasm in Allah’s Paradise would last for 600
years (Aldous Huxley, Moksha,
Chatto & Windus, London, 1980, p-112).
GELEMANS
Perhaps no worldly brothel has quite good stock of young boys, to be
offered to the customers to do sodomy. But in the Paradise, by the grace of most
merciful Allah, each and every believer will be supplied with plenty of most
charming, beautiful and obedient Heavenly young boys, called gelemans, to do sodomy with them, and hence the Koran says, “They
shall be attended by boys graced with
eternal youth, who to the beholder's eyes will seem like sprinkled
pearls. When
you gaze upon that scene you will behold a kingdom blissful and glorious. They
shall be arrayed in garments of fine green silk and rich brocade, and adorned
with bracelets of silver. Their Lord will give them pure beverages to drink.
Thus you shall be rewarded; your high endeavours are gratifying to Allah”
(76:19-22).
“They
shall be brought near to their Lord in the gardens of delight. They shall
recline on jewelled couches face to face, and there
shall wait on them immortal youths
with bowls and ewers and a cup of purest wine, that will neither pain their
heads nor take away their reason; with fruits of their own choice and flesh of
fowls that they relish” (56: 11-21).
How many of these heavenly boys or gelemans a believer will own in
Allah’s Paradise? A tradition says that every believer in Paradise,
irrespective of his hierarchy, will own 1000 gelemans. According to a hadis
narrated by Anas, everyone will get 10,000 slaves. According to a hadis narrated
by Abu Sa’id, the number of slave boys, a believer will own, will be not less
than 1000 and not more than 80,000 (Ram Swarup, ibid, p-205).
From the above discussions it becomes evident that Most Merciful Allah offers, in the name of Paradise, a super luxury and
five star brothel to His beloved believers. There are three main aspects of
a mundane brothel and they are (1) good food, (2) good wine and (3) charming
women and Allah’s brothel called Paradise provides all the three in profuse
quantities and that too absolutely free of cost. In addition to that, the
articles in Allah’s brothel would bear some divine qualities which can never be obtained in
a worldly brothel. To mention a few are, (a) wine in Allah’s brothel does not
cause the head to ache, (b) that wine would be securely sealed, whose very dregs
are musk, (c) the visitors of Allah’s brothel would neither pass water, nor
void excrement, nor will they suffer from catarrh, nor will they spit, (d) they
would eat divine fruits and desired preparations of meat, (e) the dark-eyed
women of Allah’s brothel would always remain virgins and chaste, (f) they
would not get older than sweet sixteen, (g) they would wear see-through
garments, (h) the visitors of the Allah’s brothel would be able to see the
marrow of their bones, and above all (i) every orgasm in Allah’s Paradise with
these heavenly damsels would last for 600 years. In addition to all the above
mentioned facilities, Allah’s brothel would offer another unique amenity. The
visitors would be provided with pretty young boys, who would never be older than
16, for doing sodomy.
SOME
OTHER FEATURES OF ALLAH’S BROTHEL:
A
Bengali author, Mr. A T M Rafiqul Hasan, in
his book Aat Behest O Saat Dojokh (Eight kinds of Heaven and Seven Kinds of
Hell, Muslim Library, Calcutta, 2003), has clarified some other rare aspects of
Allah’s brothel. For example, a grape of Allah’s Paradise would contain
enough juice to fill up a cask and a date palm of Paradise would be as long as
twelve cubits that would not bear any seed. The trees in Allah’s Paradise
would be capable of playing any kind of movement including walking. If an inmate
of Paradise desires to taste a fruit, even of a distant tree, the tree would
come near to him and push the desired fruit into his mouth.
It has been mentioned above that a visitor of Allah’s brothel would be
able to copulate with billions of heavenly damsels or houris. But what would be the nature of ejaculation of such
copulations? Mr. Rafiqul Hasan has thrown considerable light on this aspect of
Allah’s brothel. He narrates that, one day a companion of the Prophet asked
him to enlighten him on this matter and in his reply the Prophet said that,
ejaculation of semen in Allah’s brothel would be entirely different from an
ejaculation in this world. Firstly, the semen on an inmate of Allah’s brothel
would be a puff of fragrant air and and an ejaculation of this peculiar semen
would give the inmate a million times more pleasure than and worldly
ejaculation. Secondly, the worldly ejaculation diminishes the vigour and energy
of the man. But it would be entirely opposite in Allah’s brothel. An
ejaculation here would increase the vigour of the inmate by million times.
JIHAD,
THE BEST FORM OF WORSHIP IN THIS WORLD:
Basically
Islam is a political creed and it aims to bring the entire world under the
banner of Islam by turning all the countries in the world into Islamic countries
(dar-ul-Islam). But how to accomplish the said target ? Here comes
the doctrine of jihad. English authors
generally translate jihad as ‘holy war’, while the Hindus commonly use the
phrase ‘dharma yuddha’ (righteous
war) for jihad. But in fact, jihad is neither holy nor righteous. The word dharma
yuddha stands for a war waged by the civilized people against uncivilized
brutes or wickeds. The Mahabharata War at Kurukshetra, which took place nearly
in 3000 B.C., is the best example of the concept of dharma
yuddha.
,
But
Islamic jihad is neither a holy nor a righteous war. In plain word, Islamic
jihad is the most barbaric incitement, the world has ever seen, to commit
indiscriminate and large scale homicide. It means indiscriminate killing of kafirs, plundering their wealth, occupying their land and other
properties by sword, fire and rape. In fact, Islam as a creed has nothing to do
with spiritualism and its sole intention is to create an empire throughout the
world and hence it puts greatest virtue in its military component, jihad, or
fighting against the kafirs with the
ultimate motive of eliminating them en masse. Allah has proclaimed that whatever
wealth and riches that exist on the earth belong to Allah and His Messenger and
Islam inspires its followers to wage a war against the kafirs,
the unlawful occupiers of those wealth and riches, and bring them under the
occupation of the legal owners or the Muslims. So,
for a Muslim, launching a jihad or war against the kafirs,
is the highest virtue; higher even than a pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj),
not to speak of lower virtues like prayer (namaj)
and fasting (roja). So the Koran says, “Fighting
against the kafirs is beyond one’s personal likings and dislikings as Allah
has commanded to fight the pagans and all those who ascribe partners (shirk)
with Allah” (2.216).
Allah
also says, “Verily, Allah loves those
who fight in His cause in rows and ranks as if they were a solid mass”
(61.4). “Verily, those who are serving
allegiance to you (O Mohammad), they are in fact serving allegiance to Allah”
(48.10). In this war against the kafirs,
Allah promises divine assistance and guarantees victory for the Muslims and
says, “As a divine help, Allah will
provide five thousand angles as fighters and victory for the Muslims”
(3.124-125). “So don’t become weak
and be not sad and you are superior if you are indeed believers. …Allah helps
those who remain steadfast” (3.139-142). “Oh
you who believe; when you meet the enemy force, take a firm stand against them
and mention the name of Allah both with the tongue and mind, so that you may be
successful” (8.45). “If Allah
helps you, none can overcome you and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him
that can help you?” (3.160). Allah also says, “… thousands believers will overpower two thousand non-believers”
(8.66) and if they are properly inspired “twenty
believers will overpower two hundred and a hundred believers will overpower one
thousand non-believers” (8.65).
We have made lawfu
At
the same time, At
the same time, Allah makes the spoils of jihad lawful and says, “Enjoy,
therefore, all things that you have gained in war, as lawful and good”
(8,69).The captive women are also spoils of jihad. Hence Allah incites the
Muslims to rape the captive kafir
women and says, “0 Prophet! Lo We have
made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast aid their dowries, and those
whom thy right hand possesseth and of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils
of war, ….” (33,50). “
….these (captive women) whom they possess by their right hand, are lawful unto
them” (70:26-30).
So
it becomes evident that the believers should aspire for acquiring spoils, in
this world, by launching jihad against
the kafirs. Or in other words, their aim in this world is to kill the kafirs,
to loot their property, to rape their women, to set their houses on fire and so
on and so forth. So, in plain words, their business in this world is murder,
theft, robbery, loot, arson etc. and their ultimate goal, in the other world, is
to enter Allah’s Paradise or Allah’s five star luxury brothel. Allah
never says, in Koran, that, O believers, you lead an honest, moral, ethical and
a decent life, be educated by receiving education and raise your moral
character. On the contrary, Allah gives them clean chit to commit any crime,
foulest deed and to break any law through His promise that He would pardon every
crime and every misdeed of the
believers for the merit of their accepting Islam.
CONCLUSION:
So
it does not become difficult for an individual to speculate, what should be the
plight of the people whose God (Allah) prescribes burglary, theft, looting,
robbery and all other criminal activities in this world and entering a super
deluxe brothel and satiation of eternal sensualities in the other. So, as a natural consequence, one finds Muslims, as a
community, most backward in the world in every walk of life. So Mr.
Wasim Sajjad, President of the Islamabad based Ministerial Standing Committee on
Scientific and Technological Cooperation (CONSTECH), while addressing a press
conference, in 1998, said that the
countries belonging to the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC), considering
their share of world population, should have 4 million scientists and engineers,
but in reality they had only 200,000, merely 5 per cent of the expected figure.
He also pointed out that Muslims account for 1.3 billion or nearly 32 per cent
of the world population, but scientific
research papers they publish is negligible, below one per cent of world’s
total. And at the same time, they have little contribution in the high
tech-areas like computer software and information technology and so on..
In
the first week of January last year (2006 A.D.), the American Federation of
Muslims of Indian-origin (AFMI) and the Talent Promotion Trust, a Bangalore
based NGO, have jointly held a panel discussion on “Emerging India and Development of Muslims” in Bangalore. Mr.
Farooque Shaikh, a renowned film star, while addressing the gathering of Muslims
intellectuals on 7th January, said, ”Muslims need to introspect as to why their situation has hit the
present nadir and should give up blaming others for their dismal educational
standard”. He also said that
after analyzing the Muslim community he has come to the conclusion that “… …religious
discrimination, gender bias and other issues are plaguing them”. While
commenting on the economic backwardness of the community, he said, “People in
the South are lucky that their social and economic conditions are somewhat
better than Muslims in the North. Take a trip to the remote regions in the North
and the living conditions of the Muslims there are appalling”.
“The ritualistic zakat doled out by the rich towards the poor is not enough to
elevate the pathetic living standards of the Muslims”, Mr. Shaikh added
(Islamic Voice: February, 2006).
The
severe dearth of creativity in the Muslim world has been revealed in another
study. In India and elsewhere in the world, Muslims are, as a community, most
back-ward and top the list in adult illiteracy, infant mortality and poverty.
Mr. Hisamul Islam Siddiqi, the president of the Indian Islamic Council, a Delhi based NGO. In February, 2000, while
he was addressing a seminar on “Islamic
Heritage: Indian Dimension” in Delhi, said that nearly 36 per cent of
Indian Muslims were urban and almost all of them were slum-dwellers, living
below the poverty line. The Rahat Welfare Trust is a Mumbai based NGO and to
describe the widespread darkness of ignorance and illiteracy among the Muslims,
says, “This darkness makes a mockery of our freedom. …
It is only the light of education that can banish this darkness created
by ignorance”. Islamic Voice is a
Bangalore-based monthly. Its editor Mr. Sadatulla Khan, while lamenting over the
lack of creativity and intellectual stagnation in the Muslim community, in his
editorial ‘Intellectual Stagnation and Its
Remedy’, writes, “Both individually and collectively, Muslims are
victims of intellectual stagnation for the past several centuries and are
painfully lagging behind in the race of civilization.
The
picture is not different in the Arab world too, where people, though not so poor
but backward in every walk of life. This Arab world literally means 22 Islamic
countries those are members of the Arab League. Most of these countries are
richly endowed with natural resources like natural oil and gas and hence people
are not faced neither with endemic poverty nor with ethnic conflicts. Moreover,
they shook off their foreign bondage, colonial or neo-colonial legacy, quite a
long ago. So the question naturally arises- What went wrong? What made them so
stuck behind time?
To
find plausible replies to these questions, the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP), in 2001, appointed an inquiry committee consisting of Arab
intellectuals and scholars. The committee carried out investigations for a year
and submitted its report, called the “Arab Human Development Report 2002” in
the first week of July, 2002. Mr. Nader Fergani, the Egyptian scholar and chief
author of the report, and his associates took much pain to analyze Arab
world’s strength as well as its failings To estimate the performance of a
country, the UN, for the past 10 or so years, is using an index called ‘Human
Development Index’ (HDI), that includes life expectancy at birth, adult
literacy rate, school enrolment as well as income per head. Another index called
‘Alternative Human Development Index’ (AHDI) is also used that drops income
per head from HDI, but includes additional aspects like freedom of speech and
similar fundamental rights enjoyed by the people, use of Internet, emissions of
carbon dioxide and so on. The Arab countries are seen to score , on the basis of
both the indices, lower than almost all other countries in the world.
“From
the schooldays onwards, Arabs are instructed that they should not defy tradition
(laid down by Allah through Koran and Hadith) that they should respect the authority (of Allah) and truth
should be sought in the text (i.e. Koran and
Hadith) and not in experience”, says
the British commentator. “The role of thought (among Muslims) is to explain
and transmit (what has been ordained by Allah in Koran
and Hadith) and not to search or question (those religious dogmas)”,
says a Syrian intellectual.
All
the above mentioned comments and opinions of the scholars who prepared the
‘Arab Human Report 2002’ leads one to conclude that, as a community, Muslims
around the world are deprived of their right to free thinking and are
intellectually enslaved by the creed of Islam. Or, more pointedly, they are a
community of shackled people enslaved
by the Koran. Can a community
of slaves ever prosper? Or more
specifically, a
community, whose ultimate destination is a brothel, can ever prosper?
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