Dear Family of the Heart & Friends:

Rashid Mughal

 

In post #407, Akhtar Shirazi and his string-along editor and co-writer Safdar Agha are once again riding slipshod into our territory in a bid to hijack us up the garden path.  

Akhtar Shirazi calls yours truly "one of those people who do not pay heed to reason" because yours truly likened him, in a manner of speaking, to a chapter-and-verse parrot that sputters mullahesque parrotifications literally at the drop of a hat. He remarks: "You have equated me to the Mullah mentality, but, in fact, I have a diametrically opposite stance, understanding and expression. What the Muslim priesthood is presenting has got nothing to do with the Islamic government Muhammad established in Medina. The ritual riddled religion pock marked with Jubba-o-Dustar is of no use to the humanity at large."  

I reiterate what I have emphasized here before, that religion and Akhtar Shirazi's mumbo-jumbo are of no use to humanity, but he doesn't have the Muslimist humility to see another's point of view. The story he believes in is the story he wants everyone to believe in, even if that story compels Muslims, in the professed words of Allah, to stay apart from Jews and Christians and to fight them at every turn. I don't understand the fitful mind of Allah, and I don't want to know what Allah said in a certain context fourteen hundred years ago from the likes of Akhtar Shirazi either.

"I am trying to introduce Al-Deen, the real constitution of the Qur’an," Akhtar Shirazi writes, "which Arabic illiterates like you have neither the brains nor the desire to understand. I am not bothered about that and I have no wish to change your views." He missed the point altogether; I said Arabic cannot be the only medium of intercourse with the Creator. 

Preachification* comes easy to our mutual friend. On his website, Quranic Education and Research Inc., Akhtar Shirazi and his string-along proclaim "to spread Quranic revolution to the lands far away from the feuding tribes would finally make it clear to them, like a bright sunny day, that whatever is revealed in the Quran is, indeed, based on the ultimate truth." I find that claim a little far-fetched since his preachifications rattle and ramble with pathological "self-centered people . . . a big majority in this world, who care only for themselves and their kith and kin . . . the rest of the people can go to hell and burn there forever . . . The autocrats, the dictators and even the democratically elected heads of the states care for their parties and no one else. They just intend to win elections and rule by whatever means possible . . . According to numerous recently conducted polls, the politicians are the least trusted people all over the globe . . . Such compulsive liars cannot do much for no one . . . democracy is just a mockery of the electorate, which according to Rousseau. . . enjoys maximum power on the Election Day, and afterwards, the same characters rough it up, that brings them to power."  

It is difficult to hop onto that discombobulating train of thought and not suffer severe brain damage. However, we have to respect Akhtar Shirazi's resolve. Says he, "I have decided not to waste my time with the likes of you, the so-called intellectuals, or pseudo intelligentsia, who have nothing productive to offer to any one. Keep your perverted views to yourself, as they are of no use to me." I hear the mutterings of an ego in that 'me' but that's okay.