QuoteReplyTopic: Islamic scholars were really Muslims or not? Posted: 01-Feb-2015 at 12:22
It is really interesting that most of those who are called Islamic
scholars never believed in Islam, of course we know some of them, like
Khwarizmi, founder of Algebra, Algorithm, Calculus, ... were really not
Muslim but we see other ones were actually not Muslims too, we even see
some of them such as Avicenna, Khayyam, Rhazes, ... strongly criticized
Islam too.
For example let's look at the works of one of them who is usually considered as the greatest Islamic scholar:
Razi wrote three books dealing with religion; they
were: The Prophets' Fraudulent Tricks (Arabic مخارق الانبياء),
The
Stratagems of Those Who Claim to Be Prophets (Arabic حيل المتنبيين),
and On the Refutation of Revealed Religions (Arabic نقض الادیان).
He offered harsh criticism concerning religions, in particular those religions
that claim to have been revealed by prophetic experiences. Razi asserted
that "[God] should not set some individuals over others, and there should
be between them neither rivalry nor disagreement which would bring them
to perdition." He argued,
On what ground do you deem it necessary
that God should single out certain individuals [by giving them prophecy],
that he should set them up above other people, that he should appoint them
to be the people's guides, and make people dependent upon them?
Concerning the link between violence and religion, Razi
expressed that God must have known, considering the many disagreements
between different religions, that "there would be a universal disaster
and they would perish in the mutual hostilities and fighting. Indeed, many
people have perished in this way, as we can see."
He was also critical of the lack of interest among
religious adherents in the rational analysis of their beliefs, and the
violent reaction which takes its place:
If the people of this religion are asked
about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get
angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question.
They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries.
This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.
Al-Razi believed that common people had originally been
duped into belief by religious authority figures and by the status quo.
He believed that these authority figures were able to continually deceive
the common people "as a result of [religious people] being long accustomed
to their religious denomination, as days passed and it became a habit.
Because they were deluded by the beards of the goats, who sit in ranks
in their councils, straining their throats in recounting lies, senseless
myths and "so-and-so told us in the name of so-and-so..."
He believed that the existence of a large variety of
religions was, in itself, evidence that they were all man made, saying,
"Jesus claimed that he is the son of God, while Moses claimed that He had
no son, and Muhammad claimed that he [Jesus] was created like the rest
of humanity." and "Mani and Zoroaster contradicted Moses, Jesus and Muhammad
regarding the Eternal One, the coming into being of the world, and the
reasons for the [existence] of good and evil." In relation to the Hebrew's
God asking of sacrifices, he said that "This sounds like the words of the
needy rather than of the Laudable Self-sufficient One."
On the Quran, al-Razi said:
You claim that the evidentiary miracle
is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: "Whoever denies it,
let him produce a similar one." Indeed, we shall produce a thousand similar,
from the works of rhetoricians, eloquent speakers and valiant poets, which
are more appropriately phrased and state the issues more succinctly. They
convey the meaning better and their rhymed prose is in better meter. ...
By God what you say astonishes us! You are talking about a work which recounts
ancient myths, and which at the same time is full of contradictions and
does not contain any useful information or explanation. Then you say: "Produce
something like it"?!
From the beginning of the human history, all of those
who claimed to be prophets were, in his worst assumption tortuous and devious
and with his best assumption had psychological problems.
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