By Ahmad Y.H.
Six years ago, it never
crossed my mind that I would be writing an article like this. I never thought
I’d be looking on the religion I believed in once the way I am today. I was
actually “good at it.” I used to debate atheists and Christians, I had people convert
to Islam, but I never could put the change I went through after that period in
words until I read somewhere that “Religion is like a lonely tree in an empty
field on a foggy day, you think it’s someone who can help you find your way,
but once you get close to it you realize that it’s just a tree, and you keep
walking, never looking back at it the same way.”
The problem with Islam
for the outsider is that in the face of it and in the way it’s generally
presented, it kind of makes more sense than any other Abrahamic religion. It’s
kind of more practical, and it has way less nonsense in its teachings, yet still,
it has what is enough for it to share the same quality of being man-made.
Ridiculous claims
Islam makes the claim
that we are created by God, an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-merciful being,
that we are to worship him, and that based on our deeds we will be sent to
either Paradise or Hell. Yet if you ask any Muslim this simple question, “If
you were God/Allah himself, would you create people to test them even though
you know that most of them would fail the test?” they would have no answer,
which goes to show how immoral this teaching is.
The Quran makes the
claim that it’s the word of God, and that it’s miraculous, and so do Muslims.
Just ask any average Muslim for a proof of that, they will straight away tell
you that the Quran is a linguistic miracle as it claims, that no other book is
like it, that the Arabs at the time of Muhammad—who regarded language, poetry
and eloquence in the highest regards—could never produce anything like it in
its beauty. Yet ask the same person for a single example and then watch them
stand there with no answer, simply because they just repeat what they were
told. It’s true that the Quran’s language is somewhat unique, yet only just
like the works of Shakespeare and the symphonies of Mozart. No one could
produce anything like them, because each carries the style of their author. No
miracle is needed, not to mention that the Arabic speaker can search online to
find that the Quran does in fact contain grammatical and linguistic errors,
which Muslim scholars tried to come up with the most bizarre excuses for as
many as they could of these errors.
As a non-Arabic speaker,
you could simply say, “I don’t speak Arabic, what miracle does the Quran
provide for me? That’s when Muslims start pouring their “Scientific miracles in
the Quran” on you, which is basically a verse in the Quran that is given
steroids and then bent in all shapes and directions to make it look as if it
holds a fact that only modern science could discover. I’ll give you the simple
example of the verses that talk about the creation of the heavens and earth in
(Surah 21: Verse 30). Muslims like to funnily enough claim that this verse is
talking about the big bang, and how life is impossible without water, yet no
scientist have ever said that the heavens and earth were ever connected. They
were not even there at the time of the big bang; at best it’s a bad description
of the big bang. On the contrary these verses rhyme with other ones in other
parts of the Quran that clearly show that the Quranic view of the heavens and
earth is the same as the dome model, and it doesn’t really take a genius to
observe that living creatures die without water now does it?
Scientific Errors
Quran is full of them,
simple as that. It says that asteroids, planets and stars are for shooting devils
that try to listen to the heavens. It says that a famous general (not named but
is believed to be Alexander the Great) has found the sun to be setting in a hot
muddy water spring. It says that an ant spoke and that King Solomon heard it.
It says that heaven (the sky) was raised and is being held so that it won’t
fall on earth. Do I need to go on or are you still laughing?
You know what would be a
real scientific miracle? If Muslims could bring one verse that claims a fact
that could in no way be known 1400 years ago in a straightforward vocabulary
and then ask the scientific community to verify it, say for example, if the
Quran had a verse that says that a day on Venus is like 243 days of earth days.
That is not too much to ask for.
I have chosen to only
consider the Quran here as it’s what all Muslim, regardless of what sect they
belong to hold as true. Hopefully in a later blog I’ll be able to include the
Hadith (Muhammad's sayings and actions). Until then do not let any Muslim–ignorantly
in their good intention—fool you with a book that you can’t read in its
original language.
Ahmad Y.H.
I am a commercial pilot,
guitarist, and a thinker for myself. I also love astronomy, arts, and gaming. I
grew up in a Muslim Arab country and was raised a Muslim, but no longer
identify as one. Sometimes I wish I had not told anyone here this because of the
amount of hate received as a result. People here are not ready for atheism, I
used to be deeply religious, I even had people convert to Islam (yes). The more
you know about Islam, the more you realise it's man-made, nothing special about
it.
(The article is
published in Atheist Republic http://www.atheistrepublic.com/blog/ahmad/why-islam-false)
