Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bhagwan Ko Sanmati?

"Ishwar, Allah tero naam, sabko sanmati de Bhagwan..." so goes the popular bhajan. Read some of the scriptures below and decide whether you really want to have the kind of 'sanmati' some of the gods are peddling!

OLD TESTAMENT:

Here’s what the Old Testament, the fountainhead of Judaism and Christianity, tells Jews and Christians to do if someone tells them to worship other gods or convert to other faith:

 “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, tries to secretly entice you, saying: ‘Let us go and serve other gods’, you must kill him, your hand must strike the first blow in putting him to death and the hands of the rest of the people following. You must stone him to death, since he has tried to divert you from your God…”
[Deuteronomy, Ch. 13, v. 6-10]


QUR’AN:

If a person does not believe in Allah’s revelations in the Qur’an, here’s what Allah will do to them:

“Lo! Those who disbelieve Our revelations, We shall expose them to the Fire. As often as their skins are consumed We shall exchange them for fresh skins that they taste the torment.”
(Surah IV, verse 56).

So Allah will roast us in fire because we do not believe in his revelations in the Qur’an. When our skins get fully burnt in fire, he’ll replace them with fresh skins so that we taste the torment once again!

If anyone dares to fight against Muslims, here’s the ‘reward’ from Allah:

“The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter, theirs will be an awful doom.”
(Surah V, verse 33).

What kind of punishment ('reward') is that: "killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off"?  

Allah prescribes revenge against non-Muslims, thus:

“And We prescribed for them therein: The life for the life, and the eye for the eye, and the nose for the nose, and the ear for the ear, and the tooth for the tooth, and for the wounds retaliation. But whoso forgoeth it (in the way of charity), it shall be expiation for him. Whoso judgeth not by that which Allah hath revealed: such are wrong-doers.” (Surah V, verse 45)

Did Mahatma Gandhi say, “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind”? Here Allah commands the Muslims to take not just an eye for an eye, but also life for life, nose for nose, ear for ear, tooth for tooth and retaliation for wounds!

Want to know my views on these and other 'religious' verses (as well as views of scientists, sociologists, psychologists and Nobel Prize winners on gods, religions, religious scriptures)? Read them in my forthcoming book! J

But can't resist making couple of comments, though. If this is Ishwar's, Allah's and God's 'sanmati', then we need to change the bhajan to "Ishwar, Allah tero naam, sabko sanmati de Insaan"!! Also, since these scriptures reveal these gods as unforgiving, the English saying "To err is human, to forgive divine" should be changed to: "To punish is divine, to forgive human"!

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