Thus far we have reviewed twenty-five surahs - nearly a quarter of Allah's book. We have yet to encounter anything profound, anything that resembles holiness. And as we turn the page to the 80th surah, we discover that it opens without benefit of a subject: Qur'an 80:1 "frowned and turned away." The translators assumed it was "(The Prophet)," but it's time I present a surah without benefit of Allah's little helpers so that you might see how they were actually written. The "He Frowned" Surah: "frowned and turned away. Because there came to him the blind man. And how can you know that he might become pure? Or that teaching might profit him? As for him who thinks himself self-sufficient, to him you attend; What does it matter to you if he will not become pure? But as to him who came to you running, and is afraid. Of him you are neglectful and divert your attention to another, nay; indeed it is an admonition. So whoever wills, let him mind it." Grammatical errors, omissions, and poor writing quality aside, this surah demonstrates why Ishaq's Sira is more essential to Islam than the Qur'an. Without the context his chronology of oral reports provides, this Qur'anic story, like all others, is senseless. Ishaq explains that while trying to promote himself, Muhammad ignored this poor blind man (Abdallah bin Umm) in favor of a Quraysh chief. The reason was obvious. The chief had everything Muhammad coveted - the blind man didn't Teaching the blind man would not "profit him." The next verse also begins without a subject. Qur'an 80:13 "(It is) in Books held in (honor), exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, (written) by the hands of scribes. Honorable, Pious, Just, Noble and righteous." This verse alone makes Islam an open and shut case, condemning Muhammad as fraud. The "exalted books kept pure and holy" were the Torah, Psalms, and Gospels. They were the only books, other than the Qur'an, that Allah and Muhammad said were divinely inspired scripture. Yet there were no Qur'anic scribes at this point, as the Qur'an was not written. The first Islamic scribe during Muhammad's lifetime resigned within days of accepting the job, only to be hunted down and assassinated by the prophet. The real scribes of this day were a well-known order of devoutly pious Jews. But the scripture they "kept pure and holy" was the antithesis of the Qur'an. Coveting what rightfully belonged to Yahweh, Islam's dark spirit categorically stated that the Bible was his book. Equally important, he said it had been kept pure by honorable scribes. So wouldn't you know it, the first time he said something nice, it killed him. If the Bible was kept pure there is no possible explanation for the divergence in Qur'anic stories, the difference in gods or doctrines. If Allah said this, as Muhammad attests, he committed suicide because he destroyed Islam. For if the Bible is as Allah says - inspired and pure - then a book that repudiates its doctrines and damns its people can be neither inspired nor pure. It's simple logic: if B is right, and if Q contradicts B, Q cannot be right. So what then does that make Q? The Meccans knew Muhammad was wrong, they just didn't know why. During the seventh century they were about as unfamiliar with Biblical scripture as most agnostics are today. They knew enough to rebuke Muhammad for stealing Jewish stories, saying that the Qur'an was nothing more than "other people's lore." But while they recognized his plagiarism was uninspired, his twisted variants were not nearly as incriminating to them as they are to us. Muhammad's agenda was, however, totally transparent. Eager to make submission sound godly, the new prophet latched on to the only credible monotheistic religion, heritage, and scriptures available to him. He plagiarized them, twisting stories to serve his scheme - a scheme that could only have prevailed in the illiterate and isolated realm of central Arabia. Muhammad began his crusade to confiscate control of the family business by stealing the god and doctrines of the Hanifs. When they proved insufficient, he changed his qiblah, turning himself into a Biblical prophet. The first attempt was feeble, as we have just seen. It would take Muhammad some time to learn enough about the Bible to turn it into the cornerstone of Islam. Yet within months of selecting that new cornerstone, Muhammad would change his qiblah once again. This time he pulverized the rock upon which he had built his new faith and returned to his pagan past. Coming full circle he distanced himself from the Bible by legitimizing every aspect of Qusayy's religious scam - the hajj pilgrimage, the religious tax, the war banners, the Ramadhan fasts, the holy months, the Ka'aba, and even the Black Stone. The place of prostration changed from Jerusalem to Mecca, the apple of his eye, the place and people he wanted to control. But the price was high. Any flirtation between Islam and rational thought died an ugly death during these transformations. Mutually exclusive doctrines were praised and repudiated, treated as if they were the same and separate. Islam self-destructed, as did its god and his messenger. Now, if it would only die in the minds of those who use it to terrorize the world. Continuing with the "He Frowned" surah: Qur'an 80:17 "Be cursed man! He has self-destructed. From what stuff did He create him? From nutfa (male and female semen drops) He created him and then set him in due proportion." The continual cursing of man has grown wearisome. Muhammad and his Lord appear to have self-destructed. There is no female semen, and whose nutfa drops do you suppose were used? It also bears mentioning here that Allah claims to have created man thirty-five times in his Qur'an. The method, however, changes. There are twenty-five variations of the material he used. While we're on the subject, I thought you might get a chuckle out of these: Bukhari:V4B55N546 "The Prophet said, 'If a man has sexual intercourse with his wife and gets discharge first, the child will resemble the father, and if the woman gets discharge first, the child will resemble her.'" That was brilliant. As was this sermon on predestination: Bukhari:V4B55N550 "The Prophet said, 'Allah has appointed an angel in the womb, and the angel says, "Lord, a drop of semen discharge. Lord, a clot, Lord, a piece of flesh." And then, if Allah wishes to complete the child's creation, the angel will say. Lord, male or a female? Lord, wretched or blessed in religion? What will his livelihood be? What will his age be?" The angel writes all this while the child is in the womb of its mother.'" In other words, our fate is sealed. The Islamic god chooses whom he wishes to abuse. This lecture on man's four-month gestation follows an assertion that Muhammad's insights were "truly inspired," and thus scripture. Bukhari:V4B54N430 "Allah's Apostle, the true and truly inspired said, 'Regarding the matter of the creation of a human being: humans are put together in the womb of the mother in forty days. Then he becomes a clot of thick blood for a similar period. He becomes a piece of flesh for forty days. Then Allah sends an angel who is ordered to write four things: the new creature's deeds, livelihood, date of death, and whether he will be blessed or wretched. He will do whatever is written for him.'" Dr. Muhammad went on to preach: Bukhari:V4B54N506 "When a human being is born, Satan touches him at both sides of the body with his two fingers. That is why it cries.'" In Judeo-Christianity, death came as a result of man turning away from God. In Islam death is the result of god. Qur'an 80:20 "As for the way - He has made it easy for him. Then He causes him to die. Then assigns his grave. Then when He pleases, He raises him to life again. Nay, by no means has man fulfilled what the Lord has commanded him." In Islam, disease is also divine: Bukhari:V7B71N665 "The Prophet said, 'No contagious disease is conveyed without Allah's permission.'" Fortunately, there is a cure: Bukhari:V4B54N537 "The Prophet said, 'If a house fly falls in your drink, you should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease.'" However, since fevers are the result of disease and since Allah lives in hell... Bukhari:V4B54N484 "I heard the Prophet saying, 'Fever is from the heat of the Hell Fire.'" Qur'an 80:24 "Then let man look at his food and how We provide it. We pour water in showers and We split the earth in fragments, and produce therein corn, grapes and nutritious fodder, olives, dates, enclosed gardens, dense with trees, fruits and grasses." Phraseology that might make sense metaphorically is used improperly as a proof statement. Qur'an 80:33 "At length, when the deafening cry comes, that Day shall a man flee from his own brother, and from his mother and father, and he will abandon his wife and children. Each one of them will have enough concern to make him indifferent to others." Allah has prepared punishments so horrific, men and women will abandon their children, parents, and spouses to avoid enduring it. I dare say, only a man who had suffered such torment, would attribute such behavior to God. Qur'an 80:38 "Some faces that Day will be beaming, laughing, and other faces will be dust-stained, veiled in darkness, such will be the rejecters, the doers of iniquity, the disbelievers, the wicked." Islam is wickedness veiled in darkness. |
