The Islamic Beliefs:
Man is his best creation as yet and Adam is the first man as well as his first Prophet. The journey starts from Kalima and ends there again. It sees religion as a guide and a regulator for all human thoughts and activities with its universal guide lines irrespective of any space / time constraints. It guides one from dawn to dusk, even at night, from Monday to Sunday, from January to December, from his birth to death, through all the phases of childhood, adolescent, adulthood, parenthood, and old age.
Everything is His order, even a disorder is his order of disobeying his orders. His will and his orders are absolute and nothing else. His general will all orders are called Sunnah, scientifically termed as universal laws. He can do anything, even away from his Sunnah, through his kudrat, most probably taking chance from planks constant of the uncertainty principal for the scientist explanation, which general public may call the divine intervention, destiny, miracle, etc.
Islam and Truth:
Islam advocates and encourages for seeking truth, rather than running behind the temporal and localized facts and beauties. It guides one to catch the flying bird rather than its moving shade, which is certainly a beautiful sight, but surely not a catchable reality.
Universe was created in 6 periodic phenomenon, also supported by scientific cosmological theories. So, perhaps taking precedent, the Prophets might have started the custom of week of seven days – six week days for worldly activities and one weekend for social mingling, resting, or any other extra curricular activities.
Islam believes that Allah’s is the only one who feeds everybody, “from a fakir to a king”. As the old adage goes: each mouth come with two hands attached to it, will convince the logicians who are in this modern world afraid of feeding his next child. And the ones who has got some sense and understand signs should get it when they see that a mothers breasts start milking only after her child’s birth and the child refuses to each any thing else than that milk for next six months. Modern medicine also supports, though after a damage of one generation, that mothers milk is complete diet, a preventive medicine against any disease including the modern day epidemics like B.P., obesity, diabetes, allergy, depression etc.
Islamic Practices:
Islam takes care of hygiene and environment alike. For example, it orders washing of hands, before taking any meal, or burying any dead body in a graveyard. When the soul departed, the remaining soil should best be mixed in soil only, to convince those who understand signs and those who get only sciences would also finally find this method of “Disposal with dignity” a best option, though only after lot of studies in ecology, medicine and environment. This only makes Islam an eternal guide of life.
Djinns and Angels:
There is a parallel worlds of djinns who like men are also created to do nothing but only abide by his orders. They are made up of fires and brought to this world long before Adam landed from the heaven. The ones who accept Adam as his best creation and his Prophet are called “Muslim djinns and others are called Satan”. There is big world of angels for Allah’s “official works”. Djinns are composed of spirit and psyche whereas the angels only have got the spirit.
Islam and Peace:
In an Islamic order, peace is insured forever: in the form of joy in self, justice in surrounding, and jannah in the hereafter. And the means to achieve these is only one – jihad. The jihad simply means struggle against the low level instincts and their evil effects. It can used even a justified amount of violence, to undo the sins, and crimes to bring the system back to peace. Justified amounts to the largely held opinion: a small violence can be used to bring and maintain a larger justice, the way tolerance against a small injustice is a necessary price for bringing and sustaining the larger peace. Punishment to a criminal can be cited as an example of the farmer and curfew in a civilian area of the later, in a civil legal system.
The Conflicts:
Americans say, Muslims largely are terrorist and fundamentalist whereas Muslims in turn for the sake of replying, say that America is becoming the land of animals and bastards and trying to mould the whole world the same way. Literally and factually both are right in their observations because the way Muslims are bound by Islamic fundamentals and use terror in the name of jihad for their survival, the America is also increasingly practicing and advocating gay culture, multiple divorces, live-in relationships, single mother, political arrogance, preemptive wars, animal-like behaviour with prisoners etc. in the name of liberalism, democracy and right to defend, for their power, progress and excellence. No wonder, if only animal remains there with no society after the end of communism and concept of man as a social animal.
TRUTH and MODERNITY:
Gandhi said. TRUTH IS AS OLD AS MOUNTAINS. and ISLAM tells people the same old truth that was there in Bible, Torah, Zaboor, Vadas and Buddhism. Islam tells again and again for different generations. Because People either forget or goes towards EVIL for fulfilling greeds/insticts. Islam is against any EVIL. SATAN, ill DJINN, Psychologically DISORDERED HUMAN. Evil is anything that goes against the Supreme Order for Peace and Justice. ACTUALLY MOST PEOPLE ARE doing evils in the NAME OF MODERNITY. But, please, don't forget that Modernity is a relative term w.r.t Time, whereas TRUTH, PEACE, JUSTICE, HEALTH, HAPPINESS, LOVE, COOPERATION etc are ABSOLUTE and ETERNAL.
These Modern people may start EATING FROM THEIR ******* in the name of fashion or somethingNEW. Modern people even HATE DOING what their fathers did, let alone Moses, Budhha, Jesus and Mohd.
Islam and Conversion:
ISLAM IS NEVER FOR FORCEFUL CONVERSIONS OR INNOCENT KILLINGS. Otherwise…. Islam never would have prevailed all over the world and people never would embrace it at least in these days. Islam actually always talks in terms of Evil vs Pious, Satanic vs. Sacred, Just vs Unjust and Peace vs Violence in every aspect of the SELF, SYSTEM and SURROUNDING.
And because, these terms are more SPIRITUAL than material/psychological, it derives the GUIDELINES from DIVINE sources like PROPHETS/PREISTS and divine book of KORAN. This is the ONLY book which is PRESERVED inside millions of hearts/minds, as it was at its origin. So, no distortion is Ensured by the Practice of Memorisation.
No Muslim king went to Kerala/Srilanka.... but think how Islam reached there... and in fact muslims are 30% in population. Same is the case for Indonesia and Malayshya.... where 40 crore muslims live. which aurangzeb went to Indonasia/Malaysia, Kerala/SriLanka......etc..??? Who converted Jaipal Yogi/Cat-Stevens/ Yusuf Yuhana/Kamala Das/AR Rahman/ Classus Clay Md.Ali??
People embraced Islam to get the following GIFTS:
1. NAMAZ- best way of prayer, chanting, excercise, yoga, meditation, Social Mingling: all in ONE.
2. ROZA- best way of fasting, cleansing, practicing patience, discipline, unity- all in ONE.
3. ZAKAT- best way of charity, tax, gifts, insurance, investment-all in ONE (Allah saves the giver from accidents, diseases, ill-fate etc)
4. HAJJ – best form of pilgrimage – Signifying One Humanity – Universal Brotherhood
5. Circumcision- best practice after birth to have basic cleanliness always.
6. Earth-burial of deads - environmental freindly DISPOSAL with DIGNITY.
7. Nature/psychological & Human - freindly Islamic festivals. (no chemical/no phataka).
8. Human rights, spirit of true globalization the right to fight for justice/peace.
And to find every good things of LIFE. And They GET also. and this way ISLAM SPREADS.
ISLAM AND CIVILISATION:
No body claims ISLAM brought Maths or science. and no religion does claim so. not Buddha also. Muslims preserved and improved upon all the good things and religional traditions of any civilisation and eliminated only the evil things and customs. improvements upon Roman/Indian sciences like alchemy, algebra, algorithm, ( the name al says it that it's arab), arab numerals, Unani medicines, Archetechture etc. Greats are Alkhearizmi, Aljaabir, Ibn Seina, Alberounie etc.
Literature: Rumi, Saadi, Arabian Nights, story of Laila Majnu, Alberounie, Ibn Batuta, Love poems of Haafiz, popularisation of Poetry, etc.
Philosophy : Ibn Rushd (Averos) Al-Gazali, etc. Rabindra Nath also was a pupil of Rumi and Haafiz's Mysticism and Poetry. His Father went to reclusion in a hillside for 2 yrs and did meditation and chanted the poems of Rumi and Haafiz, and reportedly got beatific vision and enlightemnt, in his words. it's just one example. many more like Kabir and Sai baba evry one knows. Iqbaal, who does not know. even the Critics use his couplets for their benefit.
One should know that West also acknowledges that East (Arabs/India/China etc) only brought enlightenment to West. (i am not talking about light from electricity or sun). Roger Becon, the only learned man of Europe before 16th cen, also got his education from Muslim Spain and later became a professor in newly found Oxford univ in 12th cen. Military, Art and science, not to mention, Because India had enough of Islamic militaries.
Muslims Worlds contribution is again great in Modern World too. Because, 20th century Modernity was totally dependent on oil. you will agree if you have some science and engg backgraound. And 2/3rd of used oil came from Muslims: arab, iran, libya, egypt, Brunie, Kazakhastaan, Uzbekistan, Ukrain, and many more.
Islam and Jihad:
Is killing an evil thing in itself??? we forget that IPC has got capital punishment. Dhananjay... Godse.... and many criminals were killed by the Law of the Land.
A bus driver kills a man on road to SAVE MANY inside the bus. isn't it?????
The KORAN calls for JIHAD against the evils/satans/unjustness/violent-ego of the SELF, the SYSTEM and the SURROUNDING equally. Methods of JIHAD are many. KILLING within the rules of warfare is also one of them.
It is to bring mainly LARGER PEACE&JUSTICE and can be against anybody either Arab-Kafirs, Muslim-Yazeed. … ResistingBrahmins…. Tribal-ChengisKhan…. or any modern evil.
GANDHI/BOSE/BHAGAT/TERESA/BABA-AMTE/MILITARY GENERALS.... all did or are doing JIHAD their own way.
Let’s take AurangZeb and controversies around him. AurangZeb’s were the days of military rule. subjects and citizens wished to have the strongest and the wisest as their ruler. everybody had got a right to prove himself to be the best ruler. and only war between the different candidates could judge, who would be the best. no matter what relationship the candidates had between themselves.
We know that a state, a kingdom or a government is for basically giving peace and justice in a society. Peace can be hampered for a while to bring a larger justice....like a situation of war. and again little injustice can be justified to bring and keep the larger peace around.....like a situation of curfew in any area.
And the expansion of an empire is also not unjust. Mughal emperors did it like Ashoka and Alexander-the Greats conquered lands and made empires. AurangZeb in particular might have been more intolerant towards the injustices of Brahmins on the lower castes.... and also towards the social/spiritual/physical evil acts/rituals that were prevalent in the temples of those days. he had got his own personality and methodology........ open to critism from all. but making this issue a tool of condeming all muslim kings and religion of Islam is a sheer foolishness.... and even dangerous for society as a whole.
When i say..... AurangZeb in particular might have been more intolerant towards the injustices.........
I mean.... it's natural to be INTOLERANT towards larger INJUSTICES..... in fact it's desired..... and so.... jehad is needed. JIHAD means organised effort/struggle to remove/kill the badness from SELF....SYSTYEM....SURROUNDING and if needed those MEN who comes on the way of that effort.
MAN and WOMAN :
By nature, Every Man has got a Monnster in him. and Every Woman has got a Whoure in her. ISLAM restricts the Monnster and the Whoure from growing in them. And guides them become pious. Any body who does or says anything against ISLAM either is ignorant or actually showing that Monnster or the Whoure. Islam believes in :
Women as Assistants of Men: Women is weak from both intelligence and emotions point of Veiw. Physique is already clearly weaker. As Shakespear also observes: “ Frailty thy name is woman”
Women as Most Forgived and Cared beings like Children and Senior Citizens.
Women can not be Prophets, Best Judges, Commanders. Islam is not for Equality. Rather for Equal opportunity to carry out everybody’s supposed roles in society. Women have got their supposed roles in a family, society. Men have different ones. Role Reversal will bring chaos in society.
And Dressing is a part of both Male and Females’ life. Be Male or Female, if they abstain from proper dressing………….. they are evils…. And will bring Disorder within and around..
Words of Wisdom:
ALWAYS BE A BADSHAH TO YOUR BEGUM. OR ELSE SHE WILL MAKE YOU A GHULAM.
ISLAM GIVES WOMEN's RIGHT IN INHERITENCE. Women have legal right on property, even if she does not earn anything.
Following is the minimum she gets legally:
1/2 of What each Brother gets from father mother plus 1/8 of Husbands property and earning. plus 1/6 of Each Sons property and earning. Again women DONT HAVE any financial responsibility, whereas her brothers, husband and sons must have other many.
Islam and Fundamentalism :
Has not everything got some fundamentals? be it economy, SENSEX, polity, or anything. You know they want strong fundamentals?
But when Islam is talking about fundamentals of Humanity, Truth, Divinity, Peace, Justice, Cooperation, Way of Living. You call it Fundamentalists.
Every human faculty wants to be organised. Organisation is the buzz word for every thing these days. But when Islam (or any religion) is organised and institutionalised. You dont like Organised Religion.
Why? even when the Prophets only taught us all these very concepts.
Let’s Be sane and Fundamentalist.
Dont change yourself every 20 yrs. from christian to communist to capitalist to consumerist to Nationalist to Nazis to Fascist… then again.....
Muslims and Education :
MUSLIMS BELIEVE IN BALANCED KNOWLEDGE OF all -- Physical.... Psychological..... Spiritual aspects.
MUSLIMS ARE LITERATE as far as TRUTH is concerned.
We study Concepts of Truth, Peace, Morality, Divinity and Justice, Techniques of Livelihood as well as the Art, Science and Spirit of Living.
We beleive in Revival of Old Truths. Now, please dont talk about modern day civil society, its laws, rules and liberties. Because :
TRUTH IS VERY OLD AND NOTHING MODERN ABOUT IT.
We dont follow modern evils. All will leave these once RAMDEV BABA and the likes will start telling PEPSI as Toilet Cleaner. And when Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Sathya Sai BAba will show some EVIL MAGICS.
EVERY PRACTISING MUSLIM IS A PIOUS VERSION of Ramdev Baba, Ravi Shankar, Charity maker Bill Gates etc.
On Happiness:
Happiness comes from balanced approach towards life. Both the individual as well the society contribute equally towards one's happiness. The basic factors are known for centuries mainly, respect for the elders, love/care for the children&olds, voluntary cooperation, healthy competition, tradition of honest earning and selfless charity, contentment(need Vs greed), nice neighbours, balanced education system, princepled politics, unbiased police/judiciary system, and preferring men over materials, morals over machines, health over wealth, emotions over intelligence, psyche over physique, family over freinds, wise traditions over crazy trends will ensure happiness in one and all.
Everybody knows that there can not be 2 billion cars in the world, that much steel required for their manufacturing and also from where that much fuel and coal-tar will come to run them. Similarly all materials are finite whereas our greed are infinite. So, practising the above factors is the only solution. Otherwise, any lifestyle model which strives for material gain/greed will put us in the vicious cycle of stressful life and crazy developemnt. Finally we will be retiring at forty with diabetes and B.P.
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