Islam: A Pack of White Lies

1/4/2012
Islam: A Pack of White Lies
Mohammad Asghar
(A worthy read first published in 2005)
Most humans consider lying to be a despicable act. To prevent them from lying, s
ome nations have enacted laws with a view to punishing the liars. In the United
States , liars are punished by imprisonment. Yet, many Americans do not hesitate
to lie, if it is likely to bring them power, monetary gains and the accolades a
nd respect of their families and societies.
Criminals of all colors, caste and creed also lie to escape punishments for thei
r crimes; petty thieves do the same for the same reason. There are many others w
ho, though appear to have gentle and attractive countenances, feel no qualm in u
sing the venom of their lies, when the use of it is likely to destroy their real
and perceived enemies.
The severity of lies depends on the magnitude of success that lies are expected
to bring to the liars. Therefore, the world has seen a large number of both smal
l and big liars ever since humans started walking on earths surface. It would con
tinue to hold liars on its bosom until the time it disappears from the solar sys
tem of our universe.
Throughout human history liars were able not only to bring wealth, fame and
r to themselves, they also succeeded in enslaving a large number of mankind
ombining lies with their power of manipulation. In support of my statement,
te a few examples of lies, which had been impacting our lives from the time
ns began treating those lies, not as lies, but as truths.

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When, over 3,300 years ago, some manipulative Hebrews wanted to establish their
hegemony over their fellow religionists, they concocted the story of their exodu
s from Egypt , supposedly under the leadership of a leader, they named only Mose
s, together with clothing him with the garb of a prophet. They projected him as
being the only human being with whom Allah (God in English) spoke in person on t
he summit of Mount Sinai , and gave him the Book, now called the Torah.
Some 2,000 years ago, when another group of manipulative people wished to subjec
t the Jews to their rule, they had a virgin girl given birth to a son, who is no
w known as Jesus Christ. In his manhood, this son of a virgin mother, rightly cl
aiming that he was a Son of God, declared that many of the things the Jews had bee
n doing for ages were wrong and that he was sent by his Father to set them on th
e path of righteousness and honorable living. He wore the mantle of a religious
reformer to seize power from the rabbis, and to declare himself the King of the
Jews, if he succeeded with his ploy.
In the struggle for power, Jesus lost. When the powerful Jewish rabbis succeeded
in securing, for him, a death sentence, which was to be carried out through cru
cifixion, his All-Powerful Father i.e. Allah did not intervene; instead, He perm
itted his sons enemy to execute him brutally so that He could use his holy blood
for the expiation of his followers sins.
Approximately seven hundred years after Christs crucifixion, an illiterate but hi
ghly intelligent man by the name of Muhammad, rose from the desert of Arabia to
shackle a large number of human beings to a creed he called Islam. Since he lack
ed the credentials of Moses, who claimed to have talked to Allah, and of Jesus C

hrist, who claimed he was sired by Allah Himself, Muhammad needed something unima
ginable to happen to him so that he could set himself above all the so-called pro
phets of the yore.
An amorous affair afforded him the opportunity to excel the credentials of the p
revious prophets: After missing the company of his wife for sometime, Muhammad w
as sleeping one night in the house of his cousin, who was a widow and who lived
by herself. When in the morning his Companions wanted to know from him where he
had been all night, he came up with the story of the night journey, which could
not have been witnessed by any human being, in order to hide his whereabouts fro
m his inquisitors.
None of Muhammads acolytes (known as Companions to his followers) believed him. To
convince them, he made Allah to give him the following revelation:
17:1: Glory to (Allah) who did take His Servant for a journey by night from the S
acred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did bless, in order that
We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth (a
ll things)
His Companions, excepting Abu Bakr, remained unconvinced by the revelation, as i
t talked only about Muhammads so-called journey by night from the Mosque of Mecca
to the Farthest Mosque, which, according to the verse, must have existed at an
unnamed location in 620 A.D. Abu Bakr came to his rescue and declared that he be
lieved in what he had told them about his journey, thus earning for himself the
title of Siddique i.e. the speaker of the truth from his friend, the Prophet of Isla
m.
Apart from trying to know something about the purported location and the existen
ce of the Qurans Farthest Mosque, let us examine briefly the quality of language
Allah has used in His above revelation.
Allah used the word We in the verse for Himself, knowing well that Emperors and Ki
ngs, too, used it for identifying themselves in and before their courts and subj
ects. When they identified themselves in plural, it was believed to have convinc
ed their audience with the power they carried simultaneously with the power of f
orgiveness and mercy with which Allah had endowed them. They are known to have r
emained constant with the use of the word We to identify themselves; even in their
private lives, they avoided the use of the word I during their conversations. Thi
s habit of theirs showed constancy not only in the use of their words, but also
in their actions.
But adherence to certain principles does not seem to have remained a hallmark of
Allah, for, in one sentence of His conversation, He addresses Himself as We and i
n the next, He changes it to He thus giving us the impression that there are two A
llahs- one, who, as stated in the above verse, blessed the precincts of the Fart
hest Mosque; the other, who hears and sees everything humans do in their lives.
Scholars, irrespective of their religious affiliations and geographical location
s, have never questioned the quality of language using which, Allah has spoken t
o the Muslims through the Quran. On the other hand, the same scholars have chast
ised many among them, who, they thought, had violated their well formulated ling
uistic norms, which all of them are required to follow, while expressing themsel
ves through their speeches and writings. This attitude of theirs is hypocritical
, to put it mildly. They need to change it, if they wish to bring credibility to
themselves as well as to what they say and write in their treatises and books.
The Quran infers and Muslim scholars take this inference to mean that Muhammad h
ad traveled to the Masjid-ul-Aqsa (literal meaning of the words Furthest Mosque),
which was supposed be located where its namesake stands today in Jerusalem , on

the back of an animal that wore the face of a beautiful woman. Here, he is repor
ted to have led all the prophets of the past into a congregational prayer. Witho
ut explaining why this animal had a womans face, they insist that their Prophet h
ad ridden it through all the seven heavens without a saddle and rein (see Jamis o
riginal fifteenth century painting preserved in the British Museum ).
Muhammads ability to ride on the back of an animal without a saddle and rein, and
then to gallop through the vast expanse of the space, makes him an exceptional
rider of the world. It was only he who could have performed this extraordinary a
nd unheard of feat; others attempting it would have slipped off from the back of
their rides, and become forever a part of our universes gravitational activities
.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali had to say the following on this issue: The Farthest Mosque mu
st refer to the site of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem on the hill of Moriah
, at or near which stands the Dome of the Rock, called also the Mosque of Hadhra
t Umar. This and the Mosque known as the Farthest Mosque (Masjid-ul-Aqsa) were c
ompleted by the Amir And-ul-Malik in A. H. 68. (The Holy Quran, Vol. 1, p. 693).
Other sources also tell us almost an identical story: That the Dome of the Rock,
also known as Qubbat As-Sakhra in Arabic, came into being between 687 and 691 A.D
. through the initiatives of Caliph Abd-ul- Malik.
From the above historical references, it becomes crystal clear that at the time,
Muslims believe, Muhammad had landed in Jerusalem on his way to the 7th heaven,
there existed no mosque on the hill of Moriah. It could not have existed there
then, because in 620 A.D., Islam was still in its cradle; its tranquilizing fang
s still remaining un-developed and the sword it needed to expand its influence t
hroughout the earth still sheathed.
The truth being the above, Muslims need to ask themselves: Why the Quran says th
at there existed a mosque in Jerusalem in 620 A.D., when there was no possibilit
y for one to be built, and maintained, by the Muslims on the soil of a Jew-domin
ated land?
The truth lies in the fact that Muhammad had never traveled to Jerusalem on the
back of a woman, having the body of a horse; that he never ascended to the seven
th heaven corporeally and that he made up the story of a mysterious journey to f
ool his Companions on the question they had raised on his whereabouts during the
night he was spending in the company of his cousin, Umm Hani. This was the grea
test lie ever spoken by a man; without it, Islam would have died its natural dea
th a long, long time ago. And without Islam, the earth would have remained much
better a place for all humans to live together in peace and harmony.
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