Not a Benign Book

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 15 February 2023 Much of the Quran Speaks Not About Religion but Only About How One Must Submit; It Commands How One Must Live, Dress, Treat Women and Slaves, and Practise Jihad ----- I'm afraid, the latitudinarian believer Mr Ghulam Mohiyuddin will never get a straightforward reply from a believing Muslim to his statement, “The Quran is best when it gives a positive message. Throwing expletives and curses at others betrays weakness." Many Muslims are aware that the general tone and tenor of the Quran is threatening but the benumbing influence of Islam and Quran doesn't let them accept this. Its apologists will try tooth and nail to convince you, but to no avail. I remember the words of Winston Churchill, " How dreadful are the curses which Muhammadism lays on its votaries!.....Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in this world...." You can check it for yourself that the Quran is rife with Surahs (verses) directing its followers to violence. Surah 3:151, Surah 2:191, Surah 9:5 and many more can be cited as proofs. All explanations to prove them otherwise will fall flat because to quote an archaic Arabic adage, ' Even the best of perfumes cannot drown the stench of a dead body. ' Much of the Quran speaks not about religion but only about how one must submit; it commands how one must live, dress, treat women and slaves, and practise jihad. In short, the Quran is all about religio-scriptural totalitarianism. It's a rabidly martinet Allah's draconian screed. Recently, when I was in conversation with an Arabic scholar of Quran who teaches Theology at an Ivy League University in the States, he told me that the Quran was anything but a benign book. Mind you, a native speaker of Arabic with a command of the 7th-century Quranic Arabic telling you that the book has a brow-beating tone. And here the sub-continental 'experts' and ' exegetes ' of the Quran are trying to purge it of its venomous and vindictive spirit. This is stubbornness, nay, monomania. Lastly, no Muslim can say that I'm extra harsh on Quran. Those criticising me should read my disenchanted and candid treatises in Sanskrit, Pahalvi and Hebrew on Gita, Avesta and Talmud. I literally and metaphorically tore them apart. I spare none. ---- 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/religion-quran-benign/d/129106 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism