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RASHID
MUGHAL
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FAMILY OF THE
HEART SEMINAR ON SEPT. 04, 2005
"CAN
WE SAY GOODBYE TO GOD?"
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Dear
Family of the Heart & Friends:
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Rashid Mughal |
His interpretation may differ from the mullah
next door but in essence it is the same parrotification that all
detestable mullahs are made of. When we hover around the web of
words, we get entangled in the traps sprung by our own cultural and
traditional understanding of words clamouring for meaning and
attention when in fact a word actually means different things to
people whose intelligence is out to lunch. Take the nine-mile-long
prolix of Akhtar Sherazi, for instance (see
post #400). Once again he has gate-crashed our
wide-ranging discussion with Part 2 of his Delhi belly verbosity on
"the real significance of the word Allah" as if the
word is really the thing it represents, as if the word "Allah" is
really the thing we are discussing here.
Akhtar Sherazi makes
a mind-boggling revelation that stunned some Arabs in the molten
noon-day sun. He tells us, "The word Allah takes shape
with the combination of the basic roots Alif, Lam and Ha,"
as if we are in kindergarten listening to some sacrosanct sermon about
the attributes of the Arabic alphabet when in fact Arabic has no such
magic or charm other than the fact that Muslims believe Arabic is the
favoured language of God.
When you meet up
with God, and you should some day, God will tell you that any god
would be a fool to bluff people that way because Allah or God or
Whassisname must remain above all manmade conventions, including the
convention of human intercourse in Arabic with the Creator, whoever
that Creator may be, when Arabic is not your mother tongue and even
you don't understand what you are saying.
It is no big secret that God actually detests parroting of any kind.
Depending on
what time of day it is, God will tell you in no uncertain terms that
nothing is more baffling to the Maker of the Universe than an Urdu
speaking convert to some Arabic religion who believes God listens to
one's innermost intercourse with Deity through the classical lyrics of
a language that very few people even in the petro-dollar contaminated
deserts think they understand. That is because The Big Chief, by
whatever name, works in wonderful ways for all kinds of
people everywhere, not only Muslims.
Akhtar Sherazi's
logic is twisted within a twisted matrix. Caught in the spider's web,
he tries to justify his logic by saying, "Allah
is beyond the perception of human mind. No living person has ever seen
him over millennia and He has not directly talked to any one, not even
his chosen Messengers. However, the concept of Allah does not change
from place to place, nation to nation, and tribe to tribe. But, it is
not at all right to say that god of all religions are the same; there
is a distinct difference between Ram and Raheem and they are not one
and the same. The ‘Father’ of Christians, the ‘Judeo’ of Jews, the
‘Ishwar’ or ‘Parmaatma’ of Hindus and ‘Armazd’ of Zoroastrians are
totally different from one another, because their attributes are world
apart. Many gods of antiquity are dead now. A god dies, when it loses
its following. Amen Ra of Egypt, Greek Jupiter, Baal of Babylonia, and
Zeus of Rome are all dead Gods, as they have lost their worshippers."
When Akhtar
Sherazi dishes out such a hotchpotch, he is really defying his own
demented logic. What stops him from surmising that one day Allah will
also go the way of all gods? That is the question we have been
thrashing out here, and I think we should remind him and all future
Akhtar Sherazis out there: Can we say goodbye to God?
And please write
from your intelligence, not from your parrot memory!
Thank you.
Rashid Mughal
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