Islam Suffers From Excessive Attachment Syndrome

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 14 April 2023 There's a rule (number 43, Chapter 7, para 3) in Sanskrit linguistics, known as, Uddharan Nyaya Apratyksha Aabhaasam (Fallacy of Indirectly Quoted Words) propounded by Panini in his Ashtadhyayi. By the way, Panini was world's first linguist. This pertains to Peer Afzal Qadri of Pakistan declaring a bounty of five lakhs to the Momin who'll kill the preacher Engineer Mohammad Ali Mirza for calling Muhammad a 'Chhokra' (lad). But Engineer didn't directly refer to Muhammad as a 'Chhokra'. He just quoted the Jews and polytheists of that era calling Muhammad a 'Chhokra'. One wonders, where do these fanatics get money from when in Pakistan a dozen bananas cost nearly 400 rupees in Indian currency? Instead of giving away five lakhs to the Ghazi/Momin who will kill the preacher for an indirect term, cannot this big (at this moment) amount be donated to the poor and needy people of Pakistan during the holy month of Ramzan? These religious idlers have so much time to waste over absolutely unnecessary issues like who said what about Muhammad and his wives and concubines but are oblivious of the dismal state of their country which's on the verge of a complete collapse at any moment. This is how religion opiates brains and in the case of Islam, this opium works overtime. Muslims, esp. the Muslims of the sub-continent, must abnegate their obsession with Muhammad. They must realize that Muhammad was a human, not a superhuman or someone infallible. In his book, The Problem with Prophethood, German scholar, orientalist and polyglot Theodor Noldeke, who found innumerable semantic errors in the Quran and called it spurious like any other 'revealed' book, wrote that, " When we erroneously believe that a god 'revealed' the 'relative' ( in the case of Judaism and Christianity) and 'absolute' Truth ( as in Islam) through an individual or a prophet in the Semitic context, the followers often start deifying that man whom they call a prophet. All problems stem from here....." Islam suffers from this cloying and excessive love for an individual despite claiming that only Allah is to be worshipped and not his Rasool. One cannot but laugh. Am I ridiculing Islam or any other man-made bogus faith? ------ A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to the world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/the-war-within-islam/excessive-attachment-syndrome/d/129563 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism