Islam : The Untold Story

For every religion, they believe they are the parents of all other religion. This is a paradoxically view, but there is no authoritative evidence as to which was first(*story). 

Here is a wonderful documentary, studying a very ancient and huge religion - Islam.

In this controversial and ground-breaking documentary, historian Tom Holland who is taking the chance to enter the risky waters, suggests that we have absence of historical evidence about the beginning and rise of the Islam. Muslims believe that from the very beginning, the great Arab conquest were all about Islam. But in the 7th century, you can barely find a new religion called Islam anywhere in the historical records.

Even Mecca may not have been the real birthplace of the prophet. The earliest biographies we have were written nearly 200 years after the prophet's lifetime. This is a world founded on stories of Mohammed.

It is not suprising that the program received a torrent of complaints after the broadcast.

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The Limitation of God

Profoundly many. I am not sure of any square km on this planet where you can point out and say, hey look, the God has done things correctly here.

The reason I am an agonistic-atheist is one simple fact. The existence of sorrow. I know it may sound as a lame argument, but given a suitable thoughts, this ought to be the greatest attack against the imaginary friend.

As a child I used to ask my parent, why some people are happy and rich and smart and good looking, while the other completely ugly, sluggish, and bad. Why do some people keep their doors open for happiness while some others struggle to push away the pain? My parents use to tell me, this all is Karma. The fruit of previous life. They said, these people have done something wrong, very wrong in their previous life, and hence they are suffering in this life. So that they would again get a fresh chance in next life, and then at that time, they would probably do well. Initially, I subscribed to this illogical answer. For at that time, the words of elder where the only source of truth to me.

But now I realized, it’s a stupid concept. Firstly nobody ever has proved that ‘multiple’ life do exists. You could have seen it on Aaj Tak, but that was just a TRP. In religion too, this concept of multiple life differ for door to door. In Hinduism, we have seven life, whereas in Christianity, only one. That’s the reason most western country’s people have multiple marriages in one life span. While for Hindus, we have seven lives to enjoy the heaven of feminine.

You might be aware that good and bad are subjective and not an objective concept. That is, something  good for you, may be bad for me and vice-verse. And we have no way to decide the most good and the most bad. So does God have objective explanation of good and bad? Or does he decide based on his mere fantasy.

People generally say that happiness and sorrow are the two sides of same coin. They  say, suffering is mandatory and inevitable. Then comes the next big question, who decide who suffers?

What kind of God created a world like this? There is more suffering and struggle than joy and happiness.  I hear 70 girls’ been raped daily, 100’s of elderly brutally killed by youngster. I see a mother cheeks swollen red by the slap she gets from her own son. I see father raping his daughter with the same penis which was crucial to give birth to her, I see Osama Bin Laden living for 60 years, whereas a 16 year old girl getting into coma for the bullet she received just for starting a female literacy camp in Pakistan. I see murderers enjoying free air, and millions of kids in African desert dying daily for single drop of water. I see corrupt politician earning billions of dollars in their life time, and then I see innocent farmer ending their beautiful life just for 600/- Rs they cant pay. What a irony. 

Is this how an intelligence god creates the world? Is this the best design he can ever do? *^%$$^&#.  Did the almighty god who created the vastness of universe, who created billions and billions of galaxies in which there are trillions of stars and planets, can make such a stupid design mistake? If he was a sole maker of this world, why didn't he crafted a more thoughtful world? Why didn't he formed a world where there is no sorrow and only happiness. You may find this as stupid idea, but for a designer, who has made the world from bits and scratches, he could have well planned it nicely. He should have made the law of universe in such a way, so as to make everyone happy and to have everyone satisfied. He seems to me as an unskilled designer after all. And if he did this kind of mistake in design purposely, what kind of God he is. 

Think about it…