Why A Majority Of Muslims Will Never See Logic And Accept Glaring Flaws In The Quran.....An Analysis
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
20 December
2022
Can Muslims, Even Learned Ones, Emulate Hindus When
It Comes To Rejecting Useless Fables And Stories In The Qur'an? This Is
Unlikely To Happen.
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A huge
chunk of Muslims will continue to believe that their Quran is perfect and
unalloyed and WikiIslam is anti-Islam because it points out innumerable
scientific errors in Islam. Despite the mention of Muhammad's winged horse,
Buraq, Muslims will NEVER accept that such a fabled animal or flying horse (Udta
Ghoda) can ever exist. They're fully convinced that the flying horse took
Muhammad to heaven! Here lies a difference between Hindus and Muslims. Though
Hindus are equally ignorant and superstitions, many rational Hindus have the
grace to accept that their holy books are fraught with garbage.
Let me cite
two examples from BR Ambedkar's brilliant and polemic book ' Riddles in
Hinduism.' The book is not available in open market. Its first and
unexpurgated edition questions the veracity and relevance of two very popular
'stories' from Mahabharata.
Story no.
one:
Bhishma's
father Shantanu was a permanently erect-dick, priapic and good for nothing
king. He wanted to marry a fisherman's gorgeous daughter Satyavati. Bhishma
helped his lascivious father marry Satyavati. Overjoyed Shantanu bestowed upon
his son Icchha Mrityu ( to die when one wants to die). Now see the illogical
part of it. A king who couldn't marry a fisherman's daughter on his own and
took his son's help and who did nothing worthwhile in his whole life had the
power to bless his son with wilful death!
Story no.
two:
After the
Battle of Kurukshetra, Pandavas and Krishna went to meet Dhritrashtra and seek
his blessings. Dhritrashtra hugged every Pandav. When it was turn to hug Bheem,
Krishna pushed an effigy of Bheem. Dhritrashtra hugged the effigy with so much
power and strength that he crushed it. He ( Dhritrashtra) was particularly
angry with Bheem for killing his (favourite) son Duryodhan. How can this be
true? Bheem had the strength of one thousand wild elephants ( that's also
rubbish) and he was the strongest man, whereas blind Dhritrashtra was weak, old
and emaciated. Had he hugged the real Bheem, he ( Dhritrashtra) himself would
have been crushed to death!
Mind you,
Ambedkar is not a likeable character, loved and deeply respected by Brahmins.
But even they've accepted that these two stories are bogus along with a number
of myths in the holy books of Hindus.
There's no
denying the fact that Hindus are still a tad more liberal than average Muslims
and they can see logic or at least, ready to see. But Muslims are morbidly
adamant and bovine-brained. They can justify Quranic flat earth with all sorts
of unintelligible mental gymnastics. Can Muslims, even learned ones, emulate
Hindus when it comes to rejecting useless fables and stories in the Qur'an?
This is unlikely to happen.
Time to
introspect.
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A
regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative
religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the
world's premier publications in several languages including Persian.
URL: https://newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/muslims-logic-quran/d/128666