Insanity Versus Piety

The book, The Moghul Saint of Insanity, is about the sixth Moghul emperor of India to be published this year by the Cambridge Scholars Publishing UK.—But before the fever of insanity afflicting Aurangzeb, a little note about The Moghul Exile published by Editions Dedicaces US/Canada.—Guy Boulianne the editor of Editions Dedicaces first published Poet Emperor of the Last of the Moghul, Bahadur Shah Zafar.— The Moghul Exile—Humayun is the second Moghul emperor of India.— He is a mystic and a lover of poetry, literature, astronomy and astrology.—The intrigues of his brothers and Afghani lords compel him to seek exile in Persia, while his brother Karmran rules Kabul, keeping Humayun’s young son Akbar hostage.—Humayun is welcomed by the Persian king and in gratitude Humayun presents his precious diamond Koh-i-Noor to the Persian Monarch.—With the help of the Persian troops, Humayun conquers Kabul, loses it twice, but finally succeeds in freeing it from the yolk of his brother, returning to India to reclaim his lost empire.—Within a couple of years the Venus of his fortunes fades as he falls from the steps of his balcony while watching Venus in the sky.— The Moghul Saint of Insanity— This historical, biographical account of Aurangzeb’s life is the last in the sequels of the Moghuls, depicting the Fall of the Moghul Empire.— Aurangzeb stands out as the Master of Distortion, defacing the Face of Islam in conformity with his own sense of Perception and Interpretation.— Blind to his own sins and acts of violence, he plunges deep into the ocean of ruin and devastation.— His ancestors—the architects of beauty and tolerance, are forgotten by him in his mad zeal to conquer and subjugate all who don’t fit the Vision of his Islam.— The victim of his own spiritual leprosy, he fails to see his acts of cruelty and injustice as stark contradictions to the precepts of Islam.— More faces emerge in this war of ambition and hypocrisy, those of the foreign traders, lurking in ambush to posses the jewels of the emperors and the empire at the first golden opportunity.— And Aurangzeb becomes the first one from the progeny of the Moghuls to throw open the gates of this Golden Cage for plunder and invasion.— Leaving behind one legacy of a golden rule that tolerance leads to peace and prosperity, and intolerance, to doom and destruction.— The Fall of the Moghul Empire attests to the validity of this legacy.— Story Line:— Soul of my soul! Now I am going alone.— I grieve for your helplessness.— But what is the use?— Every torment I have inflicted, every sin I have committed, every wrong I have done, I carry the consequence with me.— Strange that I came with nothing into this world, and now am going away with this stupendous caravan of sins.— Wherever I look I see only God.— I have greatly sinned and I know not what torment awaits me? – Aurangzeb’s letter to his son before dying. – With fundamentalism on the rise, this book would serve as a gong of warning for the would-be-suicide-bombers that zeal and violence would be the annihilation of their own factions if they continued the practice of hate, brutality and intolerance.— It would also be a learning tool for the young victims—educated by hateful mullahs, and hypocrites, to glean truth out of lies and to dispel ignorance. – Hoping that this book would set the tone of contemplation, touching the hearts of the clerics, religious leaders and leaders of the Islamic nations to raise their voices in unison against the ones involved in crimes of torturing and murdering innocent men, women and children!— May this book promote and nurture the gifts of compassion, learning and understanding. –Peace to the World.

Sharia De Fabricated

‘Sympathy is the root of religion, and so long as the spirit of sympathy is living in your heart, you have the light of religion.’—Hazrat Inayat Khan:— Recent reprint in the series of the Moghuls is The Moghul Exile published by Editions Dedicaces.—Next book to be published is Sharia De Fabricated.—Below is a snippet of this upcoming book,but before that a little note about the tragedy of the victors and the vanquished.—Victory over Takrit, all victors, Sunnis or Shias have established themselves as ignorant, hatemongering barbarians, stabbing, slitting throats, hanging decapitated men, looting, burning.—Destroying properties, carving rivers of blood, in the name of what, vengeance? If sectarian violence is to continue with no peace/compassion/forgiveness in sight, then it matters not who wins.—Murderers, hypocrites All!—No one is worthy to claim victory until one learns how to forgive and start working toward love, peace and harmony.— A Few Quotes of Marcus Aurelius.— ‘The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.—The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all it becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumor in the universe, as far as it can.—If you will return to your principles and the worship of Reason, within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now an ape and a beast.’— Thus we put you on the right way of religion. So follow it and follow not the whimsical desire of those who have no knowledge. (Quran 45:18)— Though Sharia as a legal code didn’t exist during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad, many scholars believe that this verse above is the only sharia verse in the Quran.— Sharia literally means the straight path, or right way of religion.— Against countless definitions of Sharia, the simplest one in the literal sense of the word is, a way to the watering place and path to seek felicity and salvation.— This book deals with basic Sharia, the Quranic verses which have become the tools of tyranny in the hands of the zealots.— These tools are rough-hewn, ingrained with the rust of distortions. In order to take that rust off, one needs to polish them with reason, interpreting what is misinterpreted.— Then lending them the sheen of purity from the Quranic verses which need no interpretation since they are the embodiment of love, peace and harmony by the very essence of their candid rhythm in poetry and simplicity.— In this book, first and foremost, Sharia would gather the most neglected of gems from the Quran and the Hadiths which radiate love, peace and compassion before ripping open the fabrication of the verses which have become the weapons of war, hate and intolerance.— Sharia is much like the present day GPS of path-finding through byways and highways to reach a certain destination, depending upon the goals of each individual.— Sharia as Islamic Law defined by the traditions of the Prophet recorded in Hadiths as Sunnah and through the Quranic revelations is in sore need of being scrubbed clean of distortions to avoid the road blocks, where the ancient streets of redundant knowledge are overgrown with weeds and the construction of new streets have nothing new to offer, exposed to the need to demolish and reconstruct.— The revelations were sacred tools of problem solving during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad dealing with specific situations which needed immediate attention.— Islamic GPS of Sharia/Sunnah in twenty-first century is groping its way out of the labyrinth of time to shed its weight of human understanding of man-made judgments and recollections, resulting in volumes upon volumes of traditions.— More than three fourths of which have nothing to do with the life of the Prophet or his sayings, but with the need to control, subjugate and manipulate each and every aspect of life under the pretense of religion as viewed by the so-called Islamic caliphs, jurists, scholars, historians and theologians.— First of all Sharia as in the Quran and Hadith is to be taken into account and its layers of distortion, interpretation and fabrication to be peeled off slowly and gradually to reveal the purity of Islam which lies ensconced under the man-made laws of tyranny, those laws still vague and indecipherable.— To explain, discuss and disseminate in simple terms the Law of Islam without the weight of Arabic, unfamiliar terms is the aim of this book to reach young Muslims in this modern world, so that they can explore and understand Islam in all its aspects of morality and universality.— One of the most commonly used term by the Muslim scholars, Fiqh, is also avoided in this book for the benefit of easy-read and clear understanding.— Fabrication of Sharia by Fiqh—human understanding of Sharia and its interpretation is the theme of this book, aiming toward exploring the past and the present for a better future.— ‘The first sign of realization of truth is tolerance.—Verily, he is victorious who has conquered himself.’—Hazrat Inayat Khan

Islam's Reflection

Islam’s Reflection through the Heart of Hazrat Inayat Khan.— Below is few kernels of his profound contemplations.—He uttered these words almost one century and a decade ago and they still appeal to this age and time.— The real abode of God is in the heart of man; when it is frozen with bitterness or hatred, the doors of the shrine are closed, the light is hidden.— Everybody is working for selfish ends, not caring about others, and this alone has brought about the misery in the world today.— When the world is evolving from imperfection towards perfection, it needs all love and sympathy.— Great tenderness and watchfulness is required of each one of us.— The heart of every man, both good and bad, is the abode of God, and care should be taken never to wound anybody by word or act.— According to the belief of a Sufi in remembrance of the Prophet, the heart is the shrine of God, and when the doors of the shrine are closed it is just like a light being hidden under a bushel.— The pupil sees that God is Love.— If He is love He does not stay in the heavens.— His earthly body is the heart of man. When that heart is frozen and when there is no love but bitterness, coldness, prejudice and contempt, unforgiving feelings and hatred (which all come from one source: want of tolerance) the feeling I am different and you are different comes.— Then that spirit and that light of God, that divine essence that is in the heart of man, is buried as in a tomb.— The work that one has to do is to dig it up, as one would dig the ground, discarding all mud, until one touched the water underneath.— What the Sufi calls riyazat, a process of achievement, is nothing else than digging constantly in that holy land which is the heart of man.—The first and last lesson in love is, 'I am not -- Thou art' and unless man is moved to that selflessness he does not know justice, right or truth.— The soul is the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God lives within the shrine of the heart; this shrine can be closed or it can be open.— There are some things in life that open it and some that close it.— The things that close the heart are those which are contrary to love, tolerance and forgiveness, such as coldness, bitterness and ill-will, and a strong element of duality.— The world is more upset today than ever before; in many ways man seems to go from bad to worse, and yet he thinks that he is progressing.— It is not lack of organization or of civilization; both these things he has.— What he lacks is the expression of the soul.— He closes his door to his fellow man, he closes the shrine of the heart and by doing so he is keeping God away from himself and others.— Nation is set against nation, race against race, religion against religion.— Therefore today more than ever before there is a need for the realization of this philosophy.— What we need is not that all religions should become one nor all races; that can never be.— But what is needed is undivided progress, and making ourselves examples of love and tolerance.— By talking about it, by discussing and arguing it will not come, but by self-realization, by making ourselves the examples of what should be, by giving love, taking love, and showing in our action gentleness, consideration and the desire for service for the sake of God in whom we can all unite beyond the narrow barriers of race and creed.— It is more important to know the truth about one's self than to try to find out the truth of heaven and hell.— It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself.— However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something but he does not know where it leads him.— The first sign of realization is tolerance towards others.— There are the words of Christ: 'In the house of my father are many mansions' and those of the Prophet: 'Each soul has its own religion'— This means that according to his evolution so man knows the truth and the more a man knows, the more he finds there is to learn.— In order to attain truth one must make one's own life truthful.— This is life in its moral aspect.— The more truthful one is in one's everyday life the more one practices this moral despite its great difficulty, the more one approaches the only religion which there is—Truth is the very self of man.— Truth is the divine element in man.— Truth is every soul's seeking.— Therefore as soon as the clouds of illusion are scattered, that which man now begins to see is nothing but the truth which has been there all the time.— He finds that the truth was never absent; it was only covered by clouds of illusion.— By changing his own nature, by making himself more truthful, he disperses the clouds of falsehood within and without, and begins to see life as it really is both inwardly and outwardly.— From this time onwards, the meaning of religion becomes clear— When a person really wants to find the way, it is not very far from him—. It depends on the sincerity of the desire to find it whether it is far or not.— What is necessary for finding it is not much reading, or discussion or argument, but a practical study of self.— One questions one's own self:-- what am I? –Am I a material body, or a mind, or something behind a mind?— Am I myself or my coat?— Is this object "me," or something different?— Is this body my cover, or myself?— There is One Truth, the true knowledge of our being, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom., 'Know thyself, and thou shalt know God.' –The Sufi recognizes the knowledge of self as the essence of all religions; he traces it in every religion, he sees the same truth in each, and therefore he regards all as one.— Hence he can realize the saying of Jesus; 'I and my Father are one.' –The difference between creature and Creator remains on his lips, not in his soul.— This is what is meant by union with God. It is in reality the dissolving of the false self in the knowledge of the true self, which is divine, eternal, and all pervading.— 'He who attaineth union with God, his very self must lose,' said Amir. Hazrat Inyat Khan— A selection of few Quranic verses chosen for my next book— Lo! We did reveal the Torah, wherein is guidance and a light, by which the Prophets who surrendered unto Allah judged the Jews, and the rabbis and the priests judged for such as Allah’s Scripture as they were bidden to observe, and thereunto they were witnesses.— So fear not mankind, but fear Me. –And barter not my revelations for a little gain.— Whoso judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed, such are disbelievers. (5:45 Quran)— And We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow in their footsteps, confirming that which was revealed before him, and We bestowed on him the Gospel wherein is guidance and a light, confirming that which was revealed before it in the Torah—a guidance and an admonition unto those who ward off evil. (5:46 Quran)— And unto thee, Muhammad, have We revealed the Scripture with the truth, confirming whatever Scripture was before it, and a watcher over it.— So judge between them by which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires away from the truth which hath come unto thee.— For each, We have appointed a divine law and a traced-out way.— Had Allah willed He would have made you one community.— But that He may try you by that which He hath given you, He hath made you as ye are.— So vie one with another in good works.— Unto Allah ye will all return, and He will then inform you of that wherein ye differ. (5:48 Quran)— Is it a judgment of the time of pagan ignorance that they are seeking?— Who is better than Allah for judgment to a people who have certainty in their belief. (5:50 Quran)— Peace to the World!

Arabs Welcoming

The Moghuls have migrated from USA and have gone to the United Arab Emirates.— Abdullah Yahya the executive Producer of One Nine Seven One Media Production Company in Dubai is making the documentaries about the lives of the Moghul emperors of India.— Babur/The First Moghul In India.— My heart like the bud of a red, red rose Lies folds within folds aflame Would a breath of even myriad springs Blow my heart bud to rose Babur— Babur during the time of his youth till his death kept an active journal, including personal memoirs in which he recorded the lives of the people he came in contact with, of his travels, defeats, conquests and impressions about flora and fauna and animals.— He was an avid gardener and built several gardens in Kabul and India.— His book Babur-Nama was written in Turki. In Akbar’s time it was translated into Persian 1589-90 by a court historian by the name of Abdul Rahim.— Later it was translated into English by John Leyden and William Erksine.— Another scholar Annette Beveridge also translated the same book 1842-1929 into English.— Babur’s personal accounts of where he lived and where he visited describe vividly his hometown Ferghana. His descriptions of shrines and palaces in the domain of Andijan, Kandahar and Samarkand bring alive even Ulugh Beg’s famous observatory with its tables of fixed stars—the Hyde’s Syntagma and the Geographical Tables.— Also his account of towns of Syr River and his observations on flowers, rare varieties of trees and vegetation mark him as a scholar in the field of horticulture.— In his memoirs he provides most accurately Islamic conquests into Hindu India.— His youngest daughter Gulbadan Begum was commissioned by Akbar to write the history of his—Akbar’s father Humayun which she wrote in Persian as Humayun-Nama, later translated into English by Annette Beveridge.— Several authors, including S. M. Burke; Abraham Early; Augustus Fredrick, just to name a few, depict Babur as a man of great talents, kind and compassionate, a poet, mystic and The First Great Moghul Emperor of India.— He is buried in Bagh-e-Babur in Kabul. Humayun/The Moghul Exile— O thou that boasteth of a loving heart Greetings to thee if thy heart and tongue accord This will suffice as advice if only you listen to it By sowing thorn, no jasmine can be reaped Humayun— Humayun, much like his father kept a journal during his exile and short reign splintered with tragedies, intrigues and scholarly pursuits.— His journals were amended and rewritten by Gulbadan Begum during the reign of Akbar and later translated into English.— In the tradition of his father, his accounts of travels in Persia, visiting shrines and monuments come alive on the pages of history as vibrant as rich colors on a tapestry.— The modern day ship can be traced back to Humayun’s genius in designing a flotilla of boats—safinas equipped with tiers of bedrooms, dining halls, gardens, bazaars and libraries.— A great lover of literature and astronomy, he also promoted the concept of tolerance by constructing a building by the name of Din-Panah, meaning Asylum of Faith where he held religious discussions amongst scholars of different religions.— Abraham Early and Annette Beveridge portray him as a poet mystic and a great patron of arts and literature.— Later scholars have different conclusions writing about him as an emperor who is weak and vacillating, prone to moods and superstition and the victim of his own whims and caprice.— His tomb in Delhi is considered to be built by Persian architects from Herat, north west of Afghanistan and from Bukhara, present day Uzbekistan.— Akbar/Divine Akbar and Holy India— The sentiments of Frederick Augustus—a German author who wrote about Akbar, and whose book was translated in Year 1883, fit most appropriately in eulogy to emperor Akbar as he quotes, Sulaiman the Great.— Considering all the circumstances of time and place, Akbar had always appeared to me, among sovereigns, what Shakespeare was among poets.— Akbar, being illiterate has no claim in keeping a journal, but his court historians kept impeccable records of his personal life and court proceedings.— Especially, his dearest of friends, viziers and historian by the name of Abul Fazl.— Endowed with wisdom, compassion and love for learning, Akbar stands out as the most brilliant of the Moghul emperors for promoting peace, foreign trade and tolerance.— His experiment with newborn babes in Gang Mahal—Dumb House to prove his point that babies have no proclivity to a particular language silenced his opponents, but incited much controversy.— Much like the Knights of Round Table in King Arthur’s Court, Akbar had his own version of Nav-Rattan—Nine Jewels, comprising of poets, painters, historians, musicians, architects, scholars and theologians.— His historians record that his friends accused him of deviating from the precepts of Islam, for in the company of Hindus he acted as a Hindu and in the company of Christians, as a Christian.— By some scholars, he is also accused of starting a new religion called Din-I-Ilahi, meaning a universal religion, but Akbar himself denies all such charges of accusations.— He was a great patron of arts and sciences, his patronage extending to the Moghul school of painting.— He designed guns, candelabras and worked diligently in his Imperial workshops.— His friend and court historian Abul Fazl wrote about him in glowing terms in a book called Akbar-Nama.— Later historians criticized him for his ambivalence in religion, alliance and expansion.— His Mausoleum is in Sikandra, Agra.— Jahangir/The Moghul Hedonist— To thee I have sent the scent of myself That I may bring thee more quickly to myself Jahangir— Jahangir resumed the Moghul tradition of keeping a journal in his famous memoirs, Tazuk-i-Jahangiri.— In the seventeenth year of his reign he couldn’t make any journal entries due to ill health, but all events were recorded by his court historian Mutamed Khan.— Jahangir’s memoirs were then written out in the narrative of Iqbal-Nama and later translated into English by Alexander Rogers.— Jahangir in the footsteps of his father brought the Moghul art of painting to its zenith since he was passionate about art and architecture.— His interest in studying the lives of the birds and animals led him to maintain a personal aviary and a zoo so that he could keep record of every specimen and conduct experiments.— He recorded precisely the time period and duration of the birth of a baby elephant.— His contribution toward Shalimar gardens in Kashmir made him the architect of great beauty and design.— He is considered a great scholar in his research and experimentation of flora and fauna.— Besides his love for his wife Nur Jahan, his earlier liaison with the courtesan Anarkali has been the subject of many legends and movies in India.— The Anarkali bazaar in Lahore hosts the tomb of Anarkali.— Jahangir’s mausoleum built by Nur Jahan is in the Shahdara locale of Lahore, Pakistan.— Shah Jahan/Glorious Taj and Beloved Immortal— Death itself not deadly be As to soulless life compare Sightless my eyes shudder to see If marble tombs to blind seem fair Shah Jahan— Shah Jahan didn’t indulge much in journal writing.— His court biographer was Muhammad Saleh Kamboh Lahori who wrote Shah Jahan Nama.— Much has been written about Shah Jahan by several authors and about his architectural wonders, including by the foreign travelers Francois Bernier and Jean Baptiste Tavenier.— Shah Jahan excelled in his talents in creating forts, gardens and monuments of nonpareil beauty and durability still visited and admired by tourists in India and Pakistan.— Amongst the most frequented are Red Fort in Delhi, Agra Fort (though he only built a section of it), Jama Masjid, Shalimar Gardens, Lahore Fort, of which he built only a section.— Besides being the architect of Taj Mahal, he designed the famous Peacock Throne.— Some scholars argue that Shah Jahan had designed a model of black marble memorial for him, similar to Taj Mahal, but couldn’t start building it due to the lack of funds.— His remains are interned in the basement of Taj Mahal along with his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.— Aurangzeb/The Moghul Saint of Insanity— Soul of my soul! Now I am going alone. I grieve for your helplessness. But what is the use? Every torment I have inflicted, every sin I have committed, every wrong I have done, I carry the consequence with me. Strange that I came with nothing into this world, and now am going away with this stupendous caravan of sins. Wherever I look I see only God. I have greatly sinned and I know not what torment awaits me? Aurangzeb’s letter to his son Aurangzeb was not diligent in keeping a regular journal, but his court historians did record major events during his long reign of harsh edicts and continual warfare.— Not much is written about Aurangzeb’s life, but volumes upon volumes have been written about his prolonged campaigns against the Sikhs and the Hindus, the demolition of temples and never-ending sprees of warfare.— Stanley Lane-Poole wrote a book 1890-1930 ‘Aurangzib And the Decay of the Mughal Empire.’— Dr. Gemelli Careri’s account throws some light on Aurangzeb’s campaigns since he visited his Deccan camp in 1695.— Elphinstone’s History of India gives accurate account of Deccan campaigns.— Sidelining the policies of his predecessors, Aurangzeb withdrew his patronage from arts and sciences, banned music and devoted much of his time expanding his empire on the foundations of warfare and destructions.— He ordered the demolition of many temples, including the most famous ones, Somnath Temple; Kesava Deo Temple and Kashi Wishvanath Temple.— His anger was also directed toward Christian missionaries as he stopped all aid promised to them earlier by the benevolence of Akbar and Jahangir.— Some historians argue, one of them Ram Puniyani that Aurangzeb was not always anti Hindu.— He kept changing his policies according to the moods of the situation.— He banned the construction of new temples, but permitted the repair and maintenance of existing temples.— He has a claim to few of the monuments built by his orders during his reign, which are now tourist attractions.— One is the tomb of his first wife Dilras Banu Begum called Bibi Ka Maqraba in Aurangabad.— Another one is Badshahi mosque in Lahore.— Pearl mosque in Red Fort, another mosque in Banares and one in Srinagar which is the largest in Kashmir.— Aurangzeb is buried in an open grave in Khudabad in the courtyard of the shrine of the Sufi saint, Shaikh Burhanuddin.— Bahadur Shah Zafar/Poet Emperor of the Last of the Moghuls— Oh, I wished to live and die in Medina’s sacred earth Rangoon becomes my last resort, my hopes are crushed Instead of Zam Zam water I drink my life blood I have a few days to live, come ere my life has fled Bahadur Shah Zafar— The major collapse of the Moghul Empire after the death of Aurangzeb left a gap of almost eleven emperors in succession until the nominal reign of Bahadur Shah Zafar.— Between Aurangzeb and Bahadur Shah Zafar is stretched the grueling era of three decades and a century of unrest and warfare.— The nominal reign of Bahadur Shah Zafar lasted only twenty-one years while he stayed a virtual prisoner in his own palace in Delhi under the scrutiny of the East India Company. Zafar may be called the Moghul Lear of the east, tragically magnificent.— Paradoxically he rose above the skeletal parts of the glorious Moghuls from the dazzling heaps of riches to the meanest rags of ignominy and abandonment.— When Bahadur Shah Zafar was accused of ‘mutiny’, he exclaimed: How can an emperor mutiny against his own subjects? His poems are still sung by great musicians in India and Pakistan. Bahadur Shah Zafar’s tragic tale from palace to prison, to exile and death in Rangoon heralded the era of British Raj.— These sequels not only depict the rise and fall of the Moghul Empire, but the flourishing of Islamic culture in arts and sciences. Research and literary achievements, and gardens and monuments and mosques and exquisite paintings are a part of the Moghul treasures to be enhanced by sharing globally. The Moghul rule lasted for three hundred and eleven years with eighteen emperors in between Babur and Bahadur Shah Zafar.

Islamic Pillars

Deep condolences to the parents of Kayla Mueller, the recent victim of brutality of extremists. Five pillars of Islam are crumbling into the dust of ignorance.—why?—Because in Islam so many lies have been told by so many, so often, for so long, with such persistence and conviction that they have been passed as truth since centuries.—Even now amidst the hurricanes of hate, bigotry, hypocrisy, violence, extremism, Muslim Imams inside the closed walls of mosques are pounding into the heads of the young Muslims manmade doctrines of enmity, intolerance.—justifying rape, killing, burning, stoning, beheading as sanctioned by the Quran, glossing their distorted version of Islam with interpretations designed for the zealous and the ignorant.—In order to save our children from the hatemongering pincers of jihadists we need to decide which school they go to, what they are learning, who are their teachers, are their peers exposed to some other knowledge which should not be a part of their learning?—Some sort of malefic disease has been penetrating the fabric of Islam since centuries, devouring its purity, slicing it into chunks of harsh sects as dead meat to be exposed to the vultures with insatiable appetite for human suffering.—Prophet’s Islam was one, he lived it by the example of his life, loving, caring, forgiving.—Something went fundamentally wrong in Islam after his death.—Especially now, rape is common, stoning has become a norm, beheading is applauded, molesting of children and training them to be suicide bombers is the duty of every extremist. Sanctioned are massacres, Muslims killing Muslims and non-Muslims, abducting women and selling them into slavery, oppressing women in all facets of life, from work, to education, to dress code, to freedom of expression.—All in stark defiance to the edicts of the Prophet who raised them on the pedestal of reverence, saying heaven lies under the feet of mother, granting them the right to work, to own property, to pursue education, to practice free expression in rapport with the Quranic injunctions where men and women have equal rights.—Major reforms are needed (if pillars of Islam are to stay intact) by Islamic kings, leaders, Prime Ministers to slough off the burden of distortions heaped upon them by authors of zeal who are reluctant to loosen their grip over false interpretations practiced throughout the centuries for power, control, oppression of women.—How many Muslim scholars have voiced their pious disgust against the murder of Kayla Mueller, against the massacre of the school children in Peshawar by Taliban, the abduction of Nigerian girls by Boko Haram sold into slavery, the murder of Paris cartoonists by Al Qaeda, the beheading of journalists by ISIS, the stoning of countless women by fanatics, the flogging of blogger in Saudi Arabia, the burning alive of Jordanian pilot by IS, just to name a few of the recent atrocities amidst too many to digest or recount.—The world stands aghast, not interested in knowing why Muslims fast, pray, go to pilgrimage, which pool their alms-giving corrupts.—The world wants to know why there is so much hate in Islam, cruelty, violence, only the authors of zeal can answer by peeling one layer at a time from the giant onion of lies grand and mountainous.— Hope is on the way with this giant coalition, yet this is half the task, the other precious half lies in the intent and resolve of the Muslim world to sweep clean the debris of lies and distortion.—Prophet Muhammad said: Faith is a restraint against all violence, let no Muslim commit violence.—Islam literally means, peace, not really, does it?—Prove it, Muslims, by following Prophet Muhammad’s injunction, hurt not even the heart of a living being for each heart is a shrine of God—If one corrupts this shrine with malice, hatred, intolerance one defiles the very holiness of this sacred shrine in one’s heart.

Taliban The Terrible

Trained Tormentors torturing_3T: ‘The smallest coffins are the heaviest to bear.’ Dr. Raza said in the editorial of Lahore Tribune after the brutal murder of one hundred and forty-eight children December 16, 2014 in the Army Public School of Peshawar by Taliban in Pakistan.—Only a bestial, cowardly, Godless man would even think of murdering children, not worthy of the name man.—Not even close to maturity between beast and man and surely eons behind to claim the title, Human.— Thirsting for blood, the extremists have forgotten that Prophet Muhammad forbade killing of children and women even during the war in self-defense.—Prophet Muhammad lived Islam by the example of his life by loving, forgiving and serving the poor, the orphans and the widows. Not ever avenging for any personal injury to himself.—Forgiving in the face of persecutions and when the Arab poets lampooned and wrote derogatory verses against him, pinning those verses to the walls of Kaaba, he turned his back on them, saying, Peace.—No vengeance was wreaked even for the wrongs done to his family.—The man who had toppled the carriage of his daughter and she suffered miscarriage, was readily forgiven.—After the conquest of Mecca, his persecutors were forgiven unconditionally as well as the woman who had chewed on the liver of his slain uncle at the battle of Badr.—As to learning, Prophet Muhammad made knowledge incumbent to all Muslims, male and female.—Taliban, again and forever. January 7, 2015, killing twelve employees of the French Satirical Newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, and wounding eleven while shouting Allahu Akbar.— Allahu Akbar meaning God is Great, Great God has given them permission to rape and molest defenseless children/women, to behead innocent men, to despoil and mutilate God’s own creatures and His creation, is that it?— Humble appeal to Taliban for learning and knowledge if they would deign to explore their heritage, for God’s peace on earth, for the love of Prophet, in whose name they are carrying caravans of sins on their own shoulders?— Quoting James and Marti Hefley:— The Jews, Muslims and the Christians in the Middle East lived in harmony to their common Judaistic heritage.— They agreed that the world was one, that the material universe was the visible Cloak of God.— That the universe was not static, but dynamic and expanding.— Creation was continuing and there could be no conflict between theology and astronomy or between theology and mathematics.— Science was an affirmation of faith, not the enemy of true belief.— And Islam said that above all else the physical world must be brought into submission to God and the service of His people.— Islam was not a religion of Chosen People, but a mixture of converts from several clans and tribes.— They had developed strong loyalties together.— They knew the rudiments of trading, farming and shepherding, but had not developed a great culture as had the Greeks, Persians, Hebrews and the Babylonians.— So the Muslim Arabs began mining the knowledge of past civilizations, especially the Greek.— The Greeks had left their wisdom in manuscripts, which lay hidden in the dust of the monasteries.— Some Nestorian monks realized their value, gathered the Greek writings and fled to Persia.— The Arab scholars helped them translate the ancient wisdom of the Greece into Arabic.— Much of the translation was done at the great Baghdad House of Wisdom, founded by the Caliph Mamoun in Year 803.— For approximately three centuries this was the world’s greatest center of learning.— The whole schools of linguist-translators and other scholars flocked to this center.— Mamoun appointed Nestorian Christian scholar Hynanyn ibn Ishaq at the head of this academy.— Hynanyn in return employed the Jewish, Muslim and the Christian scholars to translate wisdom of the worlds.— The Arab researchers used their Arabic language and worked within Arab culture at Baghdad, their first priority was to study the Greek philosophers in order to develop rationale for religious truths.— The Sunnite Muslims in power at Baghdad made much of the Islamic doctrine of consensus.— Agreement constituted truth, even if the Quran had to be questioned.— The Baghdad brain trust wanted to know: Had God created universe out of nothing, or had the universe existed from eternity in potentiality?— Had God created it directly, or through intermediaries such as hierarchies of the angels?— Was each human soul part of a universal soul or was each soul created individually from nothing?— The Arab scholars translated and commented on the logic and opinions of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Pythagoras and Hippocrates, as well as the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians and of other peoples.— The Arab scholars while growing proficient in physics, medicine, chemistry, astronomy and other areas of knowledge, excelled in mathematics.— Khwarizmi, an Arab professor in mathematics at the Baghdad school, collected and augmented concepts of algebra developed by previous Arab, Hindu and Greek scholars.— Please, Taliban, heed the words of your beloved Prophet:— ‘If you can keep your heart from morning till night and from night till morning free from malice toward anyone, you are following my path and he who loveth my path verily loveth me.’— Jihad:— The word Jihad does not mean holy war, it means struggle against evil.— The Quran permits only defensive warfare.— The Prophet Muhammad condemned war as one of the many evils and forbade the Muslims to initiate warfare.— Telling them that when war is inevitable in case of self-defense, civilian deaths must be avoided, women and children must not be killed, no trees are to be cut down and no buildings to be burnt down.—PEACE

Sharia for Peace

Below are a few excerpts from my next book:— These are the portents of Allah which we recite unto thee Muhammad with truth, and lo, thou art of the number of our messengers. (Quran 2: 252)— If Muslims wish to govern by the Law of Sharia, they should heed the Messenger of Allah, living in conformity with the true precepts of Islam in all its purity of peace, justice and equality.— The Prophet Muhammad’s Sharia if it is to be called Sharia based on the example of his life and the Quranic injunctions is not about rituals, punishment, jurisprudence, but about love, unity and forgiveness.— He envisioned and practiced Islam as the religion of peace and reconciliation.— Allah would make the burden light for you, for man was created weak. (Quran 4:28)— Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. The Beneficent, the Merciful. Owner of the Day of Judgment. Thee alone we worship, Thee alone we ask for help. Show us the straight path. The path of those whom Thou has favored. Not the path of those who earn Thine anger nor those who go astray. (Quran 1: 1-7)— And O Muhammad say: My Lord! Forgive and have mercy, for Thou art best of all who show mercy. (Quran 23:118)— Had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy unto you, and that Allah is Clement, Merciful, ye had been undone. (Quran 24: 20)— Proofs have come unto you from your Lord, so whoso seeth, it is for his own good, and whoso is blind is blind to his own hurt. And I am not a keeper over you. (Quran 6: 105)— This is the path of thy Lord, a straight path. We have detailed Our revelations for a people who take heed. (Quran 6: 127)— And lo, thy Lord! He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful. (Quran 26: 9)— And lo, thy Lord, He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful. (Quran 26: 140)— And lo, thy Lord, He is indeed the Mighty, the Merciful. (Quran 26: 175)— Announce O Muhammad unto my slaves that verily I am the Merciful, the Forgiving. (Quran 15: 49)— Know they not that Allah is He Who accepteth repentance from his bondmen and taketh the alms, and that Allah is He Who is the Merciful, the Relenting. (Quran 9: 104)— For them is the abode of peace with their Lord. He will be their Protecting Friend because of what they used to do. (Quran 6: 128)— Confound not truth with falsehood, not knowingly conceal the truth. (Quran 2: 42)— He hath revealed unto thee Muhammad the Scripture with truth, confirming that which was revealed before it, even as He revealed the Torah and the Gospel. (Quran 3: 3)— And of His signs is this: He created for you helpmates from yourself that ye might find rest in them, and He ordained between you love and mercy. Lo, herein indeed are portents for folk who reflect. (Quran 30:21)— And covet not the thing in which Allah hath made some of you excel others. Unto men a fortune from that which they have earned, and unto women a fortune from that which they have earned. Envy not one another, but ask Allah of His bounty. Lo, Allah is Knower of all things. (Quran 4:32)— I cast the garment of love over thee from Me. And this in order that thou mayest be reared under Mine Eye. Quran 20:39)— Create not disorder on earth. (Quran 1: 12)— Work not confusion in earth after the fair ordering thereof, and call on Him in fear and hope. Lo, the mercy of Allah is nigh unto good. (Quran 7:56)— The faithful slaves of the Beneficent are they who walk upon the earth modestly, and when the foolish ones address them, answer: Peace. (Quran 25:63)— And when it is said unto them: make not mischief in the earth, the say: We are peacemakers only. (Quran 2:11)— Wrong not mankind in their goods, and do not evil, making mischief in the earth. (Quran 26:183)— Yet whoso doeth evil or wrongeth his own soul, then seeketh pardon of Allah, will find Allah Forgiving, Merciful. (Quran 4:110)— Sanction is given to those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo, Allah loveth not aggressors. (Quran 2:190)— O ye who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent and kill not one another. Lo, Allah is ever merciful to you. (Quran 4:29)— Whoso doeth that through aggression and injustice, We shall cast him into Fire, and that is ever easy for Allah. (Quran 4:30)— Fight in the way of Allah who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo, Allah loveth not aggressors. (Quran 2:190)— And when we made with you a covenant saying: shed not the blood of your people nor turn a party of your people out of your dwellings. Then you ratified our covenant and you were witnesses thereto. (Quran 2:84)— O mankind, call upon your Lord humbly and in secret. Lo, he loveth not aggressors. (Quran 7:55)— War is a deceptive error. Prophet Muhammad Al Bukhari LV1:157(3)— The energetic man is not one who uses force, but one who keeps control of himself in a moment of anger. Prophet Muhammad Al Bukhari LXV111:76(1)— The Prophet said, a Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs. Whoever brought his brother out of discomfort, Allah will bring him out of discomforts on the Day of Resurrection and whoever screened a Muslim, Allah will screen him on the Day of Resurrection. Al Bukhari [3:622-O.B]— The Prophet said, may I tell you of the people of paradise? Every weak and poor obscure person whom the people look down upon but if he takes an oath to do something, his oath is fulfilled by Allah. And may I inform you of the people of hellfire? They are all those violent, arrogant and stubborn people. Al Bukhari [6:440-O.B]— The Prophet said, the most hated persons with Allah are three, an evil-doer, a person who seeks the traditions of the Period of Ignorance and a person who seeks to shed somebody’s blood without any right. Al Bukhari [9:21-O.B]— The Prophet said, none of you should point out towards his Muslim brother with a weapon, for he does not know, Satan may tempt him to hit him and thus he would fall into a pit of fire. Al Bukhari [9:193-O.B]— The Prophet forbade robbery and mutilation of the bodies. Al Bukhari [3:654-O.B]— Do not become infidels after me by killing each other. Prophet Muhammad/ Al-Bukhari [1:22-OB]— There are three things of which God disapproves, cunning plans, waste of goods and excessive requests. And three are the enemies of my religion. The fundamentalists, the fundamentalists, the fundamentalists. Prophet Muhammad Al Bukhari XX1V:53(2)— Is Sharia to be the law of justice, equality, tolerance or compassion?— Or is it to be the law of misogyny, injustice, inequality, intolerance, suppression?— Muslims have to decide which law to implement.— Muslims in truth, not by name?