atheism is a disease
ISLAM is the cure...
y' all wanna hear a secret?
psst...I ACTUALLY WANTED TO BECOME AN ATHIEST! But I wasn't sure. throughout my life ever since I was a weeeee young lad here in america, I saw atheism straight up lay the smack down on the books of basically EVERY religion in the world EXCEPT The Holy Quran. I saw atheism butcher christianity, I saw it butcher judiasm, I saw it butcher sikhism, buddhism, you name it. I saw it BRUTALLY butcher every single book of hinduism...the list goes on and on. AND THIS IS AMERICA! Being raised in a Muslim family BUT not having studied The Holy Quran myself, I was raised with a certain set of doos and don't as per Islam and as young teenager, I always wondered that here in the united states, life in general, would be SO much more easier AND enjoyable, entertaining if all these Islamic "doos and don't" that my parents kept enforcing on me were not there and I was at liberty to do anything I want. BUT I wanted to be sure. Naturally, since I saw atheism crush and white-wash almost ALL religions outright based on purely scientific reasoning, I figured that atheism would do the same to Islam. So I started investigating and understanding anything and EVERYTHING in The Holy Quran that could even be REMOTELY related to science and started comparing it to modern day science with, admittedly, the foolish (and almost rebellious and childish) intention that if there was ANYTHING even REMOTELY in The Holy Quran that would contradict science, THAT would be my ticket to leave Islam (nauzubillah) since science, which is neutral and not aligned with any religion or faith, had proved it wrong which therefore would mean it is NOT the word of God (nauzubillah).
I
FOUND
NOTHING!
And I mean I started when I was 14 (ok almost 15) and kept researching until I was 25, TEN FRIGGIN' YEARS...And every single little science related detail I found in The Holy Quran 100% agreed with science and had literally NO contradictions AT ALL! I was literally dumb founded. Heck, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD, I EVEN FOUND THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN THE HOLY QURAN! Another topic for another day but I was literally left SPEECHLESS! And I always wondered why all the champions of atheism like richard dawkins et al, haven't had any debates with true Islamic scholars of The Holy Quran like Sheikh Ahmed Deedat (rahimuhullah, he was alive at the time). I mean people like richard dawkins et al had ruthelssly eliminated all the well known stalwarts of christianity, hinduism, judiasm, buddhism, sikhism, etc. So I always wondered why the heck haven't they tried to take on The Holy Quran. Now I knew why...they aren't stupid. they know FULL well that won't be able to bring out a SINGLE thing in The Holy Quran that contradicted science. IN FACT, during the 10 years of studying and research, what I ALSO found was that NOT ONLY did present day science 100% agree with The Holy Quran, science also had a lot OOPS moments in its history. Let me explain. What I mean by OOPS moments was that during the days of isaac newton, there were well defined actual scientific fact that contradicted The Holy Quran but ended up being proven WRONG in the post einstein's age of science. For example:
- newtonian physics proved that universe was always there and always will be while The Holy Quran says that the universe was created - contradiction right? well einsteins' age comes along and it got proven that the universe WAS in fact created out of a big bang (OOPS).
- newtonian physics proved that the universe itself (not the objects within it) was stationary while The Holy Quran says Allah s.w.t. is actually expanding it. well einsteins' age comes along and it got proven that the universe IS in fact expanding (yet ANOTHER OOPS moment).
- so this one is actually history related...The Holy Quran is the only book in history where Allah s.w.t. tells the pharoah of the days of Moses p.b.u.h. that He will preserve his body for the rest of the world to see and take heed from. Well, for over almost 1400 years, basically all of the nonislamic scholarly world laughed at Muslims demanding to know where is his body? Basically rubbing it in the faces of our scholars that "oye kithay taudi firon di laash"??? We had no answer...until the early 20th century, when a very strange, almost entangled, crushed body was found from one of the many pyramid tombs in Egypt. And in the 1970s, Dr. Maurice Buccille (rahimuhullah, he reverted to Islam) proved that this mangled body was in the pharoah of the days of Moses p.b.u.h. This discovery was the very reason he finally converted to Islam. (ANOTHER OOPS moment)!
The list of these "oops" moments that I discovered that basically forced science (and history) to bow before Islam was mind-boggling. And yes, it brought me to a moment of...for the lack of a better term...SHOCK AND AWE! I was got this strange, sudden and yet subtle realization that...it is all REAL! Allah is REAL...The Holy Prophets and Messengers were all REAL...truthful, all the way to The Holy Prophet Muhammed p.b.u.h. Like, my outlook when I would look up at the sky changed FOREVER because I was no longer just gazing out into NOTHINGNESS, I was gazing at an actual SOMEONE...and that SOMEONE is gazing BACK at me.
That was a turning point in my life, in many ways, I found myself addicted to The Holy Quran. The rest of it is a different story for another day I guess but I wanted to share WHY in my personal experience, I am convinced that atheism is a disease and ISLAM is the cure.