Gupshup Opinions: Mirch

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Pushing the Muslim buttons

One of the ways Muslim buttons are being pushed is by using hoaxes and urban legends around Muslims beliefs and Quran. The number and frequency of these Muslim legends and hoaxes has increased after 9-11 . Islam and Muslim basher are using them as a propaganda tool against Islam and Muslims. Funny thing is that in addition to references to Islam , Quran they now contain current history and world affairs. A Muslim ,no matter at what level his or her eman is, cannot invent and start these hoaxes. Why ? Because he/she is a Muslim who has already accepted the truth about Islam. But when these Muslim legend and hoaxes reach any Muslim, appearing to be originated from Islamic sources they start to spread like wildfire. Emails and Muslim forums has made it easy for Islamophobes to obtain a Muslim looking email, domain and identity and start spreading these Muslim legends and hoaxes.

The big problem with all this, as I see is, that, when it comes to religion we all behave like lambs and sheep’s. We follow the sheep in front of us without caring where she is leading us.
The prime example is The Qur’an 9:11 Hoax . This is the hoax:

“Quran (9:11) - For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.”

Now note the verse number 9:11. Also Since America is typically represented by an eagle.America invaded Iraq. Saddam was supposed to be son of Arabia and Iraq is supposed to Muslim Country to this is all supposed to add up and prove the authenticity of Islam and Quran. Isn’t it all amazing ? Every Muslim has access to the Quran present in each and every Muslim home. All they have to do is open it and look for this verse and its translation.

But instead of doing that they fell victim to this hoax and started passing this around using emails and posting in Internet forums. I myself received emails containing this hoax from my friend and family.
Another story Which surfaced recently and being passed around very fast is about the discovery and pictures of Rocky Belt on the moon to prove the miracle of splitting of moon.

I believe in this miracle because it is mentioned in Quran. I do not need any other proof. Nobody has to create fake photos to strengthen or weaken my Eman. You can see how fake this photo is by closely looking at it.

Then there is a news which surfaced recently and is still being passed around about Neil Armstrong hearing the Azan on the moon and accepting Islam.

These hoaxes and urban legends are being invented by Islam haters to let Muslims down. They invent them and then later tell everybody that look at these Muslims they are all bunch of liars they are spreading these fake stories to prove the truthfulness of their religion. We are falling victims to these stories instead of seeing through them. Please check these hoaxes before you start to pass them around.
I wish we had a Muslim website like urbanlegends.google.com which will research the origin and authenticity of these Muslim legends and hoaxes and expose the originators and truthfulness of these hoaxes.

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Gupshup Opinions: Mirch

Are we the Muslims oppressed?

My observations are that we are victims of self pity. We have nostalgia about a very glorious and distant past. The main difference between the ones who are progressing and those who are not anymore, is like this:

Anything which happens to us is because someone is our enemy, someone is oppressing us or there is a global conspiracy against us. We have no control on our fate others are so powerful that they just do whatever they want to do to us and we cannot change it all – ( it is all my sarcasm not my philosophy)

At certain point in history we stopped realizing problems as problems and stopped looking for solutions. Someone instilled this philosophy in our minds that whatever happens is Allah’s will, so be a Sabir and Shakir Momin and have faith in Allah . Allah ( Subanahu Taala ) will have mercy and resolve our issues. We stopped doing research to resolve the issues and solve the problems. So all the major scientific discoveries, inventions and technological advances in recent history go to the credit of non-Muslims. Just name any one of the modern inventions and discoveries which have a Muslim name attached to it.

There are those in our midst who believe and force me to believe that man never landed on the moon. It is all a hoax and Discovery Channel has all the proofs to disprove a legitimate moon landing. Allah will never let that happen. I know I am going to hear a lot of boos.

I have read myself articles in prominent magazines back home which tried to prove that , rocket and air plane were invented by Muslims. Due to a big conspiracy non-Muslims are taking credit for these inventions. I do not know where they got their facts from because those articles did not contain any references or bibliography. The other day someone was telling during a khutbah that America was discovered by Muslim traders long before Columbus, there is a proof of this in a German/Italian library. and again due to a big conspiracy Columbus is credited with this discovery.

The khateebs at every masjid every Friday spend all their energy to make sure that we do not leave guilt free, They make sure that we should have shame and be depressed about being not an ideal Muslim. I would love if some psychiatrist and/or psychologist does some research on the impact of those depressing khutbas. If I take every word of those khateebs as it is I would have no hope for me on the judgement day, I will have no faith in Allah (SWT) being Rehman and Raheem.(Naoozo billah)

The other day a khateeb was spending his energies in telling the congregation at my Masjid that we all are spending all of our energies on Dunia and have forgotten the Akhrah. We should not worry about the Dunia at all. But I know that this particular khateeb has a thriving business and Mashallah doing very well . Now I do not know if angels are running his business or he puts his utmost energies to run that business. He is in a very competitive market with cut throat competition.( I am not in the same business but a very dear friend of mine is and another acquaintance of mine had to close his business and go look for a job ).

Why can’t we work hard to better our Dunia and in turn use this success in Dunia to better our Akhrah ? How is it possible that we can better our Akhrah without the betterment of our Dunia ? After every Namaz/Salat we recite a Duaa taught to us by Allah where we ask for betterment of our Dunia first and then for betterment of Akrah.

" Rabbana Aitana fee Dunia Hazantun wa fil Akhratay Hasanatun". This is the teaching of our Allah to ask for betterment of our Dunia first , but day and night all the khateebs tell us the opposite and condemn our efforts for the betterment of our Dunia.

So my conclusion is that we are being oppressed by our own ulema’s and khateebs. They have been instilling a very wrong philosophy for ages which even goes against the real Islamic teachings. This philosophy has resulted in our downfall and will result in our doom-- if we still do not change our way of thinking.

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