Cute Girls Shouldn't Wear the "Sexy Hiijab"

Comments on Comments

There are things which make a video go viral, is stupidity one of them?

I was harsh in my comments on some YouTube™ channels this afternoon.

One girl, although cute was very loud, and her first sentence was glaringly wrong, grammatically. Then she talks about Islam like it is a hobby which you can opt in or out of anytime. One day, maybe you’re praying, the next day, you’re not, you get the picture. That’s, ” freedom of religion” according to some people. But do we have to have 1000,000 YouTube™ videos defending the general Muslims’ laxity in performing their sacred duties posted all over the net? Is the world now a much better place?

For one thing, I don’t believe that most normal Muslims believe it is okay not to pray. Prayer is one of the first pillars of Islam. Secondly, if they claim the right of freedom of speech, then so do the rest of us. If they can comment then so can I, or am I wrong? It seems there are children who think their videos are the efflorescence of the entire internet experience. Worse, there are Muslim youth who believe that their very personal interpretations are the epitome of Islamic thought today. They think that because they are young and energetic, that is an excuse for poor scholarship and that youth alone gives them the right to say and do anything, regardless of what is right and wrong. Many non-Muslims have made similar judgment calls. Of course, it isn’t just youth who say and do irresponsible or stupid things.

And sometimes, “out of the mouth of babes…”

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

One guy, Fousey (somebody-or-other) says, If you like then give it a thumbs up ( I would say thumb up, since the icon is of one thumb up, and you do it once per video) but aside from my tendency to exaggerate small insignificant issues occasionally, which I can do with a fine tooth comb, if I’m in the mood for that kind of bitchiness, I strongly object to the fact that he is greatly promoting his freedom over mine; if I don’t give it a thumb up I can’t comment on his channel (can he do that??) Hey, freedom of speech is my right as well as yours, whether I like the video or not. Of course (I’ll make this perfectly clear for internet) I’m being facétieuse (Is there anything wrong with my French?) and he has every right to block me from his channel forever, which is why I posted several comments after each other and immediately shared them on Twitter™ and Google+™. Thanks for the thumbs up ;) +Karmi Neveg Fousey had 530,000 views on one video!! At some point I started thinking, ”When can we hope for that Islamic revival?”

[just a side note, I tried to find facetious in the dictionary and couldn’t but I did find a word (or expression) I’ve never heard before, which I will share now Parents might want to cover their children’s eyes or ears, lol– Fag hag -. It means a woman who likes hanging around with gay men. But why do both the Oxford dictionary and my computer not have a spelling/spelling suggestion for a fairly common word?? ]

I do comments on comments, too, which is the point of one of Fousey’s vids He suggested we could do comments on comments, like what’s- her -face, some personality, female I think it was, I forget the name. [Revised – it was Ellen.]You can watch the video, to find out who he was referring to. OR maybe you have a good idea already.

Apart from not getting why most Muslims on the planet (and beyond, reminds me of the video description/warning: “Earth is being invaded by Muslims”) know who some actor is, who died recently, which I feel bad about, truly, but also, I don’t get that they are all on YouTube™ promoting Islam (their less than kosher version) by apologizing for the few who want to promote prayer and fasting in the community, and also good manners and character, meaning, not backbiting or snitching or slandering other Muslims. My question is: why do they get to be the spokespersons for Islam?? The majority of “practicing” Muslims didn’t unanimously give them that honor. Besides, there are already many people promoting these virtues; forgiveness, kindness, enjoining good and forbidding evil, Muslim brotherhood (unity, not the political or military wing of an Islamic group) and in an enlightened and proper way, without props like “the sexy hijab” which express nothing more than “somebody doesn’t want to be taken too seriously”. There are hijab styles that are not “sexy” or at least, change the name of the style, so it is, “the coiled snake hijab” or something less provocative than “the sexy hijab”. Read my post, “Everything Is Not Sexy”, if you like.

Okay, not to be overly negative, there are other less important things I don’t like about the videos too, such as the poor English. Okay, if you’re making a video, can it be in a language that doesn’t reflect the fact that your parents probably don’t know with whom and where you hang out most nights? Or did you actually grow up on the streets?

And if you can’t make up your mind, just flip a coin, “Happy early, late, on time Eid…” was ridiculously unpragmatic. I mean, it’s okay to pick a time and a place or to express something within a realistic time/space continuum. I realize she is a nice person at heart and just wanted to include everybody, but whether we celebrate Eide with Saudi Arabia or Malaysia, or post Ghaddafi, with Morocco, lol, it is all basically doing it together, and if she celebrated it already, which we all had, then she should’ve just said, “Happy belated Eide” if her video was done post Eide. What is wrong with being decisive?

That’s a small complaint, but it helps in life to be decisive more than not, don’t you agree?

Comment to My Comment?

Back to the point about English, and word usage; okay, I understand that many of the youth (or overgrown children still living with their parents, as the majority of Muslim youth appear to do, still) are filling a need or what they see is a need for more low quality productions, with stupid jokes and likely many equally stupid followers (by the looks of the number of views, that’s most of the Muslim youth today or their non-Muslim friends too). But I would prefer, (yeah, I just said that) that they make nicer more serious videos about things that matter, or discuss the same subjects but with more seriousness. I can say that, because I’m the adult in this “conversation”.

If you want, just share some of the good Islamic videos on your channel and save your buffoonery for your friends. That way you avoid hateful comments to your videos, and the general public doesn’t get a taste of the poor quality of stuff you churn out like, all the time. Probably, this is getting annoying, and sorry for being so “judgmental”. But I am in the mood to be “judgmental”. Actually, this is my advice, which anyone can take or leave. I don’t know any of these people personally and never judge people on YouTube ™just because I know that I don’t know them personally. Some people come off as arrogant or bigoted, but they are probably genuinely nice people, or at least have a lot of similar minded friends and/or colleagues, who appreciate their unique perspective. Fousey had around 530,000 hits on one video!! 

The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

I’ve had emails from people who sound like nice people, but their comments often leave me cold. It isn’t that I feel the need to judge them, I don’t. But I feel a responsibility to educate people when they seem to ask a lot of questions about Islam or make a lot of comments which are sometimes inappropriate or reflect their general ignorance of Islam. I am not saying that I know more than them, but I do think I know my religion very well, in the most basic and necessary things a Muslim is required to know, especially about basic beliefs and the most general ideas or teachings such as Tawheed (the Oneness of Allah).

Anyway, if they believe that the people leaving negative comments are all judging them, then they are judging those people. Just because someone doesn’t like your video doesn’t mean they are judging you, especially when they say, Allah guide you and things to that effect, which is non-judgemental and a good thing to say. Muslims often say this to each other, not just to people they disagree with. Maybe the people leaving those comments you dislike are just trying to ask you to think about what you are doing and whether or not it is how you could best spend your time. Life is precious, and time waits for no one, right?

You know Fred, Everybody does!

I know that it is probably the case that many negative comments on most channels are from trolls or ppl who like to harass; comments are sometimes nasty or vindictive and people post such, for the pleasure of it; I am guilty of poking fun at ppl sometimes, but I don’t believe in child abuse or cruelty. Many of the owners of the worst offenders might even be children. It is good to keep in mind that most people on the net commenting are probably children too. But if you act like a child in your videos, then beware; you are making yourself a magnet for abusive language or comments.

You know how that guy Fred, made so many videos and they went viral? Some of it is an acquired taste, or rather made for small-minded people or kids. It’s proof that children are a force to be reckoned with. By the way, Fred made an app, it is a doll that looks like him, and he has sold a lot of them. YouTube can be a lucrative venture, too. People can promote whatever they like on YouTube, whether their own product or app or a magazine. And ideas are always being promoted. What kind of ideas, does matter. If someone is promoting “freedom of speech” then he should also practice some by giving free reign to others’ negative comments, occasionally. You can share videos you don’t like but which someone else might like to discuss with you. If that doesn’t work out well, then you can always “agree to disagree”.

"Don’t you see that the lion is silent and yet feared, while the dog barks constantly and is despised?" A Quote by Imam ash-Shafi`i

On YouTube™ spelling doesn’t matter much, but language is still important to communicating the right idea. I will promote one of my least favorite video channels. IrishInfidel has a channel that promotes hatred of Islam. The guy’s real name is Kevin, who sounds very different in one email than his public comments to me. Mostly he doesn’t believe in dialogue, but promoting his videos. That’s makes me wary of his motivations, and I don’t believe anymore that he is an atheist, but might be a closet Christian. In all honesty, it doesn’t matter to me; he can be whatever he likes... He is IrishInfidel on YouTube™ Readers can also read my response to his video in this blog; his name is one of the labels which makes searching for a discussion about him easy. I debunked his video “The Camel is a symbol of Allah” several months ago. I think I promoted that post on Twitter™ and Google+™ earlier today. I take offence at the word “symbol” as opposed to “sign”, and show why there is a difference. Also, the story of Prophet Saleh and the she-camel is an added bonus, which many people probably have never heard of.

I can see why that might help

If you’re speaking English, why not try a British accent, sometimes it just sounds more intelligent. But if the quality of the material isn’t equally impressive, then your accent won’t make a difference to the overall impression; if you are not truthful, that is one of the biggest mistakes, IMHO, you can make on the internet, and that mistake could go viral, too. This is something to think about before posting that next video. The IrishInfidel promoted another anti-Islam video with a British narrator. Did it work? Or will the video go viral despite itself? Readers be the judge, it is about science in the Quran, or the Miracle of the Honey Bees. I wrote my own take on the video in a blog post, probably you can find it easily enough without me having to put the link. (In case not, I will revise this later, I’m offline at the moment.)

I can’t promise anything, but I’ll try to blog about something offbeat tomorrow. It is still within the Islamic topics, but a slightly off the cuff post. We will see, until then, farewell.



If You Believe in Magic

The Sun Is a Big Ball of Fire (even though the Quran doesn't say as much)

No Muslims (who understood the Quran properly) believed the sun rotates around the earth, because the Quran states that the day and the night “wrap around each other” and “follow each other” in the way that a turban goes around the head; they imagined that this “following in quick succession” meant that day and night were occurring simultaneously, that one part of the earth was in darkness while the other was in light (night and day, happening together). If this was true, they also knew that the earth must be round. In fact, they knew for sure, because the quran says as much; the earth is ostrich egg shaped. They also observed the shadows (obviously, if the earth were flat, would mean that the sun is turned on and off like an electric light, with a switch) and change during the day, as the earth turns (away from the sun) and because during different seasons the sun is farther away (which maybe they didn’t imagine as early on, or someone else later proved this, I don’t know these facts myself e.g. who invented the astrolabes and why?) I only know some of this (how seasons occur) because I studied first year astronomy, which is something everyone should do at some point in their university careers. Probably I had slept through it in high school astronomy, one of my electives (that course had nothing on the university level course, which afforded us to see the sky at any time of the year (any time) while leaning back in our chairs). Earlier Muslim science details facts, not fiction. As civilizations ventured to travel the globe, it became apparent that travellers on sea voyages never fell off the earth’s surface, which was a fear early travellers by ship (or their land loving people) had, they were however likely to be attacked by pirates or drowned in terrible storms at sea (drowning and disappearances, attributed by some to sea monsters). Muslims would have been silly to think so, too, because they could see the moon, a great sign, which once was split (I saw photos of this, whether they were real or photoshopped, I can't say) I could also see Muhammad written in arabic, and we all know about the one (the face) of Mother Theresa. Anyway, the moon or solar eclipses show that obviously the earth is round (or I also barely remember some science fact like that that proves the earth is round for early people, who used telescopes). (Today) We know it's round because we live in the modern space age and study space in gradeschool, if not any further, otherwise most of us wouldn't know the moon from a flying saucer.

The Sun Always Sets

Now that we can test and prove with science that there is a “barrier” which science of large water bodies proves (oceans and seas are meant; the “seas” do not “encroach”; where the sweet and salty waters meet, e.g. the “barrier” (barzakhun) is a “homogenizing area” as explained in the book This Is The Truth, by Capt. Al-Rehaili, published in Saudi Arabia. Both “seas” (or water bodies) meet, pass through the homogenizing area in their meeting, and then compete the passage to the other side (since salinity affects this passage, there is a visible slanting where the less dense is on the bottom and the more dense is on the top, but in a way that they do not meet like a wall which is standing upright, but like a fallen structure – a fig. would be handy about now.) Dawkins didn’t lie when he said that two waters, one salty, one sweet will mix, nor does the Quran say that “mixing” doesn’t occur; Mixing occurs e.g. “maraja al Bahraini” means, loosely translated, “the two seas (Bahraini, “ain” being “the two”, e.g. “bahr” is one “sea” or “ocean”) mix” (I could be wrong about this, but I think “bahr” is used generally to mean seas and oceans, the Quran isn’t particular about which is spoken of, as far as I can tell, also proving my assertion that it is first a “religious text” and not a text book, the fact that there is some science in it doesn’t make it the science text Muslims prefer,(though we can defer to it occasionally in discussions) it is our Holy Book.) The topic being the meaning of words in the verse, we know that “maraja” is mixing, and that early Muslims didn’t quite understand or couldn’t picture how the seas “meet without mixing” (Dawkins or others are so far unwilling to investigate or admit this) so they continue (the first or earlier Muslim exegesis)to have two opinions on it, the first, that the seas meet but don’t mix (they couldn’t explain how); second, that the seas meet and mix, but without “encroaching” on each other (again a conundrum, in that era, especially for those who never would travel to the sea).

The Encroachment of Muslims

What happened later on, but much later in places where Muslims encroached, as islands like Bahrain, where many people intermarry between Indian and Arab and of course people of African descent (the first to call themselves “Bahrainis” prior to migration to the island by other permanent residents; the original people are what is taught as “dilmun” in schools) is that some pearl divers used to go to the sea floor and gather sweet water to drink, either in utensils with a small mouth or a leather bag, or a plastic bag; I don’t know when this occurred, but it was in the Persian gulf area, where many Muslims, Arabs and Indians prospered by the pearl trade. The best pearls were traded not in Bahrain, or the GCC, but in India, apparently. Therefore, by diving only were many men able to get drinking water on these boats (fishing or pearl boats) while they stayed many months on their tours. Especially the pearl divers wouldn’t go ashore for long periods, then how can we explain how they survived other than that they collected sweet water from below the salty water?

Even though the ancients could possibly have guessed at some of the things which are found in the Quran, they couldn’t have avoided making some mistakes, but there isn’t a mistake in the Qur’an. It is also a reasonable person who will admit that since pearl diving happens in salty (and sweet water - revise) (there are fresh water pearls, too, but are they only man-made or cultured pearls?) water or large bodies of water, that Muslims would have to have known about this practice of gathering sweet water from other people. But do we find literature on this subject. There is apparently more to learn about this and I look forward with anticipation, until I can try and Google it. In any case, there is no proof that Muhammad, pbuh, learned about the availability of sweet water within the ocean from others, because there is no proof; no one has written anything on this subject which we definitely know of today is ancient writing. This means that at least we do know that whoever revealed the Quran didn’t “invent” the verses by accident, nor did the author of the Quran make a mistake about it, because these are either extremely unlikely propositions or clearly untrue, no matter how much you want to debunk the existence of this verse in the Quran, the Holy Book of Muslims which “claims to be revealed by God”.

Quranic Styles, Scientific Evidence

As for verses which are less scientific and more literary, that doesn’t mean that definitely, they don’t (in many instances) speak to real things e.g. just as we cannot see Allah, we cannot see other “invisible” or “the ghaib” (unseen things) which Allah has created, heaven and hell, the angels, and so on.

Someone might say they are pure fiction (many people say that), but others (again, many people), say that such things exist, whether or not we can ever prove by science (not happening as far as “showing God” to everyone) that they do exist.

A verse which Muslims all agree is purely “literary” in nature is that the sun set in a murky pool of water. It doesn’t matter if non-believers argue that Muslims actually believed (as the Arabs might have in ancient times) that the sun rises and sets (not that the earth turns away from the sun) below the horizon, like an egg might fall off a breakfast table. But that isn’t what early Muslims scholars or scientists believed, and it is proven by what they did say early on. If the sun sets by falling under the level of the earth or into a body of water, then we would imagine that the sun, which was very great (it looks very big at times, just as the moon looks very big at times) would have caused a lot of steam to rise and the Arabs should also be able to see steam rise, because the sun also sets on the desert nations (they see the sunset, believe it or not, sometimes). They would also have imagined from the verse (if they believed the sun sets inside a body of water) that they should see a lot of steam as the hot sun descends and immerses itself into the water, but that doesn’t occur, does it? Also, why doesn't it get cold even though the sun is gone? Muslims and others must have wondered about this and other phenomenon a lot..noone thought there were two suns, or even five, even though it's possible that everyone could have seen a different sun in the sky because they lived so far away in separate nations, but we don't probably find this belief, except maybe in some indigenous writings, if at all; definitley Muslims were intellilgent enough and inquisitive enough to investigate and also reason about the sun and the moon. (The Qur'an mentions one moon and one sun, but many other possibilities exist in verses for interpretation about other worlds. It isn't beyond Muslims expectations, who have imagination, that aliens or other beings, (besides the djinns) exist on other planets far away in the cosmos in other solar systems, we can't see. Just because we don't see them, doesn't mean they don't exist, again.

One might argue these things are purely made up, but even the “unseen” (ghaib) have support in our own experience, for example, as the falling stars appear to die, or fall, while they once lived above. We cannot see oxygen, but we have the ability to prove that it exists; while we won’t prove God this way, we can use our imagination a little; something God given which comes in useful occasionally, and which some scientists seem too much lacking in – only six percent of scientists believe in God, I could be wrong (about the exact %age)

Smelly Gas, Imagine That

Some gases smell, and yet we can’t see them. This is also an example of something (a gas) which the ancients could have pondered and wondered, e.g. if something smells, does it have an invisible form or a molecular level? If gases which we don’t see can create smells, or asphyxiation, etc. why can’t a being we can’t see create us? The fact is that we are here, so there is some explanation, and the “creation” “theory” isn’t any more farfetched than science, and of course I believe it isn’t farfetched, or impossible to prove (through examples, and proofs, as you see here) but that we can almost certainly prove to many people that God revealed many signs in the Holy Quran. It isn’t the only book which has some proofs, for example, the Bible mentions the coming of “Ahmed” (another name for Muhammad, which is a prophecy; who revealed this Prophecy to Jesus, God or a fortune teller? It is strange that some new age worshippers believe in fortune telling or astrology, or numerology, but don’t believe in revelation (it’s too improbable or stories only, and because Science opposes all religion in general, which the numerologists and others are not immune from believing is more “rational” than earlier “monotheistic” and pagan religions.)

Even our imagination is a sign of what could be or is, but that we can’t see; how is it that people can “invent” or “imagine” new things and yet, we go about our business without much thought as to how this all takes place, sometimes in the twinkling of an eye, or the “inkling” of our mind. If we are so creative as to be able to make something almost from nothing, but not quite, and for example, bring data from the computer and send it elsewhere, through cables and this data is basically ‘nothing’, doesn’t that in a way support the existence of God? (David Icke believes it points to something other than us, or we are not seeing the world as it really is because we only rely on our five senses; he calls this reality “the matrix” - he also believes in “aliens”, some ppl would say they are “djinns”) We are going to die someday, but God never dies, and it is a fact that we once didn’t exist, but appeared (it seems) from nowhere, but like cybernetic data (is that a good metaphor, I don’t know, WT… is it?) we were somewhere (in the past, Allah created humankind, and brought them all forth from their parent (Adam) and asked them if they believe in Him, and they all said that they do, so If they after that deny Allah, despite their innate ability to know him, then they will end up in Hell) and God “pulled” us out just like David Icke describes “data” being “pulled out” from a computer to a network, or from the internet to a computer.

Let the deniers work their magic, but they can’t prove that God doesn’t exist; it is more plausible and with more research and effort we can prove (to many minds) that the Quran is a miracle.

Next: If I feel like it, Abraham Lincoln, aka “vampire slayer”, in historical perspective (working title)

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God, Houdini & JFK

Q/A

Someone asks, “If Allah disappears would we know?”

I wish the person would have worded the question differently, but then I think maybe he is a kid.

Did Houdini disappear or make a woman disappear? Many people believed Houdini had disappeared, or had accomplished many of his other death-defying feats, by some “magical” trick; in fact he was an escape artist, and that is how he was billed. But of course naïve people and children will believe almost anything, and whether they thought Houdini was a mere illusionist or artist or a “real” magician they flocked to his shows because he was entertaining.

If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear, is a question in a similar vein, or with a similar problem. The question is asked buy Bruce Cockburn in one of his songs but before that others (a poet, like Keats, or whoever it was) asked this and similar posers are well known.

Is the wording the best wording?

If a tree or anything falls, presumably someone will hear, whether a tiny or large creature, because they are equipped with excellent hearing, or because they are in close proximity to the falling tree. Will they know that it is a tree falling? Maybe not. It is always easier to know what event has occurred when one has the use of more than one sense, e.g. seeing, hearing, touching, to know. Many on 911, at the buildings which ‘fell’, reported hearing “explosions”, for example.

Someone might hear a tree falling, and assumes it is a tree, but for sure, he won’t know unless he can verify that’s what it was. If I hear a glass break in another room, I might believe my son has just broken a drinking glass because that happens sometimes, and it is my experience. But if the sound is more like a bottle of jam, I might be able to guess that. I will know once I have investigated, and given my son a stern look for again breaking something I wish he wouldn’t have, especially because I worry he might get hurt and also because I have to clean up after him. Other people have discussed this; how experience serves to give us a level of certainty, although it isn’t always the best way to know things. Our senses and experience can also be used against us, so that we think we have seen something, when in fact we haven’t. We might believe an event is similar to what has happened in the past, only to learn that we have been conned.

Some criminals have used their knowledge of human psychology or fabricated relationships to rob others of their wealth or to get them to help commit crimes, while the dupes don’t even realize. Sometimes, innocent people who have been used by professional criminals or psychopaths are convinced that that person is a good person and that the police are wrong about him/her. It takes a lot of hard evidence to convince someone in such a situation that s/he doesn’t really know that person at all, and that they have been used.

“Fooled once, shame on you, fooled twice, shame on me” or something like that, is good to heed. It is better if people don’t allow themselves to be carried away by feelings which might get them into real trouble. Even the fact that many girls get pregnant, is an example which also shows the sometimes avoidable consequences of trusting others implicitly, or of wishful thinking. People would like to believe that the world is good and that evil is not as common, but the reality is that a lot of evil exists, and also, even if we can’t call a guy who accidentally gets a girl pregnant “evil” (even purposely, though that would be very selfish of him and bad - it isn’t the end of the world, except the girl might perceive it as that, and maybe do something she would later regret, or hurt herself, which makes people hate the guy more, even though he is only partly responsible for the pregnancy but not for graver consequences after that.)

To get back to the main discussion, some questions are riddles which don’t really lend themselves to an answer.

To answer the question, the way that serves my purpose, I would say, firstly, in revelation, we have not read (probably in no text, is this subject ever brought up, that God disappeared) that God/Allah “disappeared”. I think the person asking the question is a child, or believes that I can’t answer the question (because it assumes about God something which isn’t true).

Secondly, in revelation, specifically the Quran, God/Allah tells us that “there is nothing like unto Him”. This is how we speak to the Christians about Allah and that He doesn’t need a son, nor want a son, and it isn’t befitting Allah to have a son. The Quran says if Allah had wanted a son, He could have chosen one from the creation (as opposed to creating Jesus and ‘adopting’ him as a son, which is also an idea with roots in Greek or Roman or pagan history or writings). The fact that Muslims don’t worship the prophet Muhammad, and Jews, (according to most people today), don’t worship any human being, is an indication that in the monotheistic religions, there is a stronger sense that God/Allah is above having a son or appointing anyone as his successor, or above having rivals, and so on. Even the notion that some Christians have that the devil “created evil” or that the devil is “ruling” this world, are not based on a true belief in God or show an incomplete belief and trust in God. Such ideas rather seem to be rooted in fear of the devil and fear of evil, and reveal many peoples’ belief that the world is essentially evil.

But as one scholar points out in a video I saw on an Islamic channel recently, the devil isn’t powerful but can only whisper evil ideas, which people then choose to act on, in their weakness or because they are not good (anyway).

“God Can Do Anything”

Lastly, Allah/God, can do anything, but there are things which He doesn’t do. That is the way most scholars have answered questions like this. Can Allah “disappear” or “appear” or “disappear and reappear”, isn’t about reality, but is about the questioner’s ignorance. This question does have an answer, which is as I just explained that it isn’t befitting Allah’s majesty, to do such things (which have no purpose or reason). There is no reason for Allah to appear to the creation, though people often wish He would (it isn’t for slaves of Allah (the creatures or the creation) to tell Allah what to do, or demand Allah do something, but Allah does what He wills. He is the best disposer of affairs, His command is just, His will is supreme, and He is the Lord of the worlds).

People complain that Allah doesn’t reveal Himself, but this is false. Allah has sent many prophets throughout the ages (to reveal His existence) to us. Allah’s will is revealed to us in the revelation, so that we can know and love Him. Despite the growing number of atheists, there are also a growing number of people who call themselves Muslims.

Allah tells us, that He is “the First” and “the Last”. Allah isn’t going to disappear, in other words. Allah forever is, has been and will be, and He is Most High, Most Great. Allah has 99 names (plus one) names we know, and other names which He knows, which we don’t know. Allah’s attributes describe Him, and these we also can read about in Islamic texts. It isn’t permissible for a person to name himself with Allah’s names, but he can name himself (or name his children) with the slave prefixing the names of Allah e.g. Abdu Rahman, the slave of the Most Merciful, or Abdullah, the slave of Allah. Allah’s attributes are also uniquely His, but it is permissible to say that someone possesses a quality of mercy or a quality of generosity, but only Allah is the Most Merciful, or The Self Sufficient, (Ghani prefixed by al) because only He is truly Self Sufficient. He is The Sustainer, and we are His slaves, who require his sustenance or succor (physical or spiritual).

Proof of God

That some people continually rail against religion and Islam in particular, doesn’t mean that they are right. The proof of God’s existence is all around, and so are proofs in the revelations. Even the Bible foretold the coming of a prophet (not a spirit or ghost, but a human being) after Jesus, A.S., whose name means “the praised one”. Ahmed is the name given in the bible, which is a name for Muhammad (an Arabic name, which also signifies the Prophet, SAWS, accurately) in the Bible, translated from the original word. In the context it was revealed, it is obvious that another Messenger of God is meant. E.g. “the comforter”.

The Grain of Truth

The verse doesn’t describe a spirit or an angel (e.g. Gabriel) because it goes onto say, that “the comforter” will not come until Jesus, A.S., goes away. Jesus describes the “comforter” as someone who will “teach you all things” (sorry if the translation isn’t spot on). The reason God sent human beings as Messengers rather than angels, is that human beings are better able to teach us and also live among us, which makes them perfect examples for us, as opposed to angels who do not understand us, nor know how human beings feel or cannot perceive our humanity the way another person can. Also, if Allah had sent angels to all the people, instead of just to a select few (Abraham, Muhammad and the other Messenger Prophets or sometimes showed obvious signs to some people only), means that we would have already been responsible for our disobedience, and there wouldn’t be much room for humanity to make mistakes or to learn from them. If that was the case, most of humanity would give excuses for their disobedience. That many human Messengers have brought the message of God’s oneness and the monotheistic creed and excelled in worshipping God, and that the great world religions all preach emphatically the existence of God, proves that human beings are created to worship Him. God is Merciful, which is why He sent guidance and books to us. If He had created us without sending us guidance, books or prophets and messengers, then we would think that Allah didn’t intend for us to know Him, or we would think that we have no reason to seek to worship God and love Him or even reason to behave morally.

Humans are Moral Creatures

People behave morally largely because they have been raised that way, and parents generally want children who are obedient, truthful, trustworthy and successful. If children are not raised with “morals” then they will definitely make many more mistakes, errors in judgment, cause problems, even become bad people, or commit crimes and worse. Many modern parents don’t raise their children to worship God or to have belief in a creator, but that doesn’t mean that they are being fair to their children to do so, or that this is real freedom. Many non-believers merely choose to teach their children what they themselves believe, not because it is right, but because they don’t have a religion and don’t want to.

Pagan Arabs Rejection of God Almighty

The ancient people didn’t believe in God because they saw angels, but they saw miraculous things and even angels, because they were in the presence of the prophet(s). Later on, for example, after the revelation had stopped, it wasn’t ever reported (thereafter) that the Muslims saw angel Gabriel (A.S). It was during the process of revelation that they (at least once, is mentioned) saw “a man whose clothing was exceedingly white” and “hair was exceedingly black” and “no signs of travel appeared on him” and no one knew him (in other words, he just appeared). It was the Prophet who informed them that it had been the angel Gabriel (A.S).

Non-believers, such as the pagan Arabs, also experienced some amazing or inexplicable things, but refused to accept the prophet Muhammad’s explanations for such things or events because they refused belief in Muhammad’s message, they refused belief in one God, preferring their hundreds of idols, and they chose to believe that other causes (such as magic or poetry, or even evil spirits) could explain away anything they saw, heard or experienced. They said the Quran was magic, they said the Prophet was a madman or afflicted by an evil spirit, and that the experiences that they or others had, were products of the mind, imagination, spirits, etc. For example, one man trying to kill the Prophet, SAWS, chased after him on a riding animal (camel or horse, I forget which) and continually stumbled when he reached the Prophet, SAWS, until he gave up. There was no common explanation for why the animal refused or was unable to continue the journey – maybe he explained it away, or maybe he became Muslim later (I can’t recall the ending, but it is in the hadiths) Another example, is when the non-believers saw a fire with wings coming out, and thought I guess, that it was some kind of “scary vision”, when they tried to approach the Prophet to harm him. At times, they used to abuse the prophet, physically and verbally, but when they attempted to assassinate him, their attempts (all) failed.

Assassination of Muhammad, pbuh, fails multiple times

The last assassination attempt was when Muhammad, SAWS, was returning from a battle, by a mountain pass, to Mecca. Even then, though there were twelve (or seven to a dozen) people in ambush for him, and only the holy Prophet, SAWS, and one other person with him, the attempt was unsuccessful. Compare this to how an assassination on several American presidents’ despite their security, have been successful, JFK, Robert Kennedy (senator, not President), Abraham Lincoln, before them. And maybe, Daniel Johnson (my history is not great on American presidents). Pope John Paul was also shot, before the bullet proof ride? Though some of these might have been actual inside jobs, or plots, and not done by a crazy person, it still proves that it’s possible to assassinate a person despite vigilance by his body guards and security. And actually, even physical evidence or other evidence isn’t conclusive, and it is hard to prove one way or another – what has really happened. This is why conspiracy theories abound.

Sometimes leaders assassinate their subordinates or enemies, but it is much harder to assassinate a public figure today without leaving some traces of evidence or without a conspiracy theory arising which seems to explain at least some of what happened with some accuracy.