Reasonable Questions about Islam
Imran Hossain
24 July 2004
[Please note that I wrote these questions for one of my Islamic uncles couple of months ago. Some or many of these questions may have been discussed earlier by the members.]
What we know Islam is a precious property of Muslims. They can forget everything but Islam. This is, of course, a fantastic product of brainwashing formulas that Muslims gain in childhood. Muslim children are taught that Islam is the best and true religion on earth, and Muslims are the only brothers of Muslims. The rest of the human beings are Kaffirs, enemy of Islam. Once Islamic pundits (or tutors) and parents apply the Islamic treatments in children’s fresh brain, children cannot consider anything other than Islam. This is how Muslim kids grow up. Hence, brainwashing products do not let even mature Muslims appraise the validity of Islam. They think that Islam is a genuine product of a true God, Allah. So, how can it be wrong?
Let me now ask some questions to Muslims. Being Muslims, do you ever think what Islam is? How do you evaluate Allah is a real God and Mohammed is a true messenger? You have accepted Islam in childhood by not even understanding a single word of it. Do you want to disagree with this? When we were children, we did not have any sense to judge what true and wrong are. Then, how would we know that Islam is a true religion? Our parents or religious teachers are not the sources of Islam. The sources are the Koran and Hadhis. Do you ever think that the Holy Koran can pass or fail the divinity test? Do you ever think how God should act and the Koran talk? For you all Muslims, I have produced some questions. Please read them, and then ask and answer yourselves first. These questions are plain and simple, not scholarly that you have to spend a lot of time. Here you go.
1. What does Allah mean? Where is the word Allah come from? Since when? Was this word used before the arrival of Islam?
2. What made God (Allah) choose 40-year-old Mohammad as His last messenger? And what made Allah call Mohammad the best human he ever created we should follow? Can you give us four examples for each of these two questions?
3. The Holy Koran was started revealing when Mohammad was 40 years of age. So, what was the religion of Mohammad before that?
4. According to Islam, there is no God but Allah. He has no appearance and He is unique. Don’t you believe it as Muslims? Now tell us why there are hundreds of words like “We” and “Us” in the Koran. Does another God exit beside Allah, is that what Allah wants to tell us in His book?
5. Who successfully took over to write Allah’s gifted messages on papers or something else for 23 years travelling everywhere (even in war fields) with Mohammad?
6. Didn’t Mohammad have an official conversation with Allah? What type of voice did he hear from Allah? Was it a male or female voice?
7. Does Allah authorise equal rights to every human being? If yes, can you give us five examples from the Koran?
8. Why did Allah suddenly decide to send His messengers some 1400 to 2000 years ago after millions of years of earth’s evolution? And what makes Allah be silent after that forever?
9. What made Allah particularly choose the desert area to pick undereducated people as His messengers?
10. What made Allah avoid sending His messengers in Greenland, Americas, Australia, China, Russia, and so on?
11. Why did Allah fail to communicate with the early people around 20,000 years ago when the early human civilisations of Chinese, Greeks, Egyptians, and Australian and American aboriginals were formed? What are the reasons?
12. Why couldn’t the Bedouins reach Australia, Greenland, and Americas to convert the native people to Islam? Is it the reason - the early Bedouins were one hundred percent sure that Allah sent all His talented prophets in those places for the marvellous guidance?
13. Where will pre-Islamic people be placed, to hell or heaven? Can you give us specific reasons?
14. What type of punishment or reward is ready for those who do not even know and had no opportunity to know Islam like Chinese, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and many other people? Do you think they will go to hell? If yes, why? Or, do you think they will go to heaven? If yes, isn’t it better not to be Muslims? Kaffirs can also go to heaven without knowing Islam! Where is the explanation for these situations? Are you going to count on Islamists? Why? What would they say? Can they tell you better than the Koran and Hadhis? Do you think God should ignore these situations?
15. According to Allah’s true words in the Koran, didn’t all prophets travel to preach and enhance Allah’s best code of life for all nations on earth? Then, where are the stories of all nations? Tell us why Islamic books cannot even provide a hint about prophets' tours to Americas, Australia, Pacific Islands, and Greenland. Tell us why Allah in his gifted book talks only about Bedouin culture that took place 1,400 or more years ago. And why can’t the Holy Koran explain about the people of other regions except the desert area?
16. Why can’t Allah create hermaphrodite-kind whilst he can form mankind and womankind?
17. Can Islam agree with science and evolution, also with cloning baby and abortion processes? If yes, can you give us five factual examples from its sources?
18. How could Allah thank the Kaffirs who make His followers much easier than ever practise Hajj and other rituals in every walk of life? And,
19. How should Allah’s followers (you) bless (doa) the Kaffirs?
20. What is the definition of merciful or compassionate? Didn’t Allah Himself claim merciful? Didn’t Allah order to kill or smite the necks of the same human beings for whatever reason? Didn’t He tell that disbelievers will be burnt in hell fire and they will drink boiling water for eternity? Didn’t He ask Muslims to avoid the followers of His own messengers, Issah (Jesus) and Moses? Then, how can this God, Allah, be merciful?
21. Was the first human being Adam sent to the desert? Was his wife Eve also sent to the desert or somewhere in the Greenland, Americas, or Australia? If somewhere, how did she cross the ocean?
22. Didn’t the children of Adam and Eve commit incest? If yes, are we the products of incest?
23. Is it true- from Adam to all prophets like Issah, Moses, Daud, Ibraham, Lut, Ishmael, Noah, or Soleman were Muslim?
24. If yes, why aren’t people Muslim if they prudently follow Issah and Moses (for example, Jew and Christian?
25. Did all those mentioned Muslim prophets practise salat five times a day facing Kabba and chanting Allah-u Akbar?
26. Were Mohammad’s mom and dad Muslim as well?
27. Why are you Muslim? How did you become Muslim? What makes you be Muslim? Please find out some questions to judge you. What would you be if you were born in Sikh or Hindu families? Would you be going to know and accept Islam? If yes, what would make you believe Allah as a true God leaving your own God (s) and religion?
28. Do you still think that Islam is the best and true religion? And what still makes you believe that Allah is a real God and Mohammad is the true messenger? If yes, can you give us five supportive examples from the Koran or Hadhis?
I hope you are comfortable to answer all these questions. Please know Islam when you choose to call yourselves “Muslim.” You have a vast of knowledge. Use it. Do not be foolish by ignorance. If you think you pass the questions I raise today, only then you are good Muslims. You have chosen Islam by knowing it with your intelligence.