[gha] Fw: Allah ruling by Malaysian Court : “We are laughing at you”
- From: Steve Rajan & Associates <steve_rajan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:36:46 +0800 (SGT)
>Dear Friends,
>
God Almighty or The Tao is Brahman--Pure Conciousness. The Tao that Can be
Described, Verbalised or Talked about is Not the Tao! Can anyone visualise or
conceptualise The Infiniteness of God! You have to Go Within to Find
Him who has an Infinite number of Names!
>
The pitty-patty game that so-called Religious Man think and act out their
lives on this earth beats or defies my imagination! How can anyone bring God to
so low a level that you can ascribed a singular name for God
Almighty!
>
I have often quoted this in my writings):-\(:-
> There is but One God!
> Infinite
is Its Names, Forms and Manifestations!
>
You, He, She, It and I are but His Manifestations!
>
Albeit, at a lower level of Conciousness!
>
It is Blasphemy to limit the Supreme Personality of Godhead to just a name! How
can any Human have the audacity to confine The Almighty to just a name? Call
Him
by any name and it will sound as just as Sweet for the God man or the Spiritual
Man!
> Don't
ever get stuck in being Religious, bound by the edicts of any Religion! Become
Spiritual and go beyond Religion! Being Religious is being Bifocal and very
narrow point of view but being Spiritual is Holistic or Wholistic and it is a
360 degree viewpoint!
> There
are 2 types of people in the world that you have to be wary of! The first one
is
the politician who try his best to convince you with his guile and wits so that
you think like him and act according to his wishes which culminate in you
voting
for him--The Mind Controller
>The second is the clergyman who try his best to control
your Soul by instilling Fear and Damnation to you so that you will obey what he
has to tell you--The Soul Controller!
>
>
> Grant
Us Wisdom O Lord to Know You!
>
>
> Yap
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>>From: Krishnamoorthy Muthaly
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>>Subject: Allah ruling: “We are laughing at you”
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>>Award-winning American Muslim scholar on Allah ruling: “We are laughing at
>>you”The Malaysian Insider – 14 hours ago
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>>A well-known American Muslim theologian has joined a long list of critics
>>over the recent Court of Appeal ruling on the use of the word Allah, saying
>>it was a "political decision more than anything
else".
>>"This notion that Malaysian Muslims need to be protected by the court
>>because you can't think for yourself, you can't make decisions on your own.
>>We are laughing at you," said Reza Aslan, speaking on BFM Radio's Evening
>>Edition programme yesterday.
>>"That you can control people's ideas, their behaviour, their faith and their
>>minds simply by trying to control the words that they use, is absurd. It is
>>an embarassment to a modern, constitutional, democratic and deeply Muslim
>>state like Malaysia," he added.
>>Aslan insisted that Christians using the word Allah - which means God in
>>Arabic - were not a threat to Islam.
>>"A Taliban put a bomb in the Quran and took it to a mosque in Pakistan,
>>where Muslims were slaughtered on one of the holiest days in the Muslim
>>calendar. You want to talk about threats to Islam? That's a threat to Islam,"
>> he said, in dismissing the argument that allowing Christians to use the word
>> in their worship was a threat to Malaysian Muslims.
>>He was referring to an incident during the Aidiladha holidays, in which
>>Afghan governor Arsala Jamal was killed while scores were injured after a
>>bomb placed in a copy of the Quran went off in a mosque during the Eid
sermon.
>>Aslan, who wrote the international bestseller No God But God: The Origins,
>>Evolution, and Future of Islam, said he was mystified by the court ruling on
>>October 14, stressing that the word Allah was merely an Arabic term for God,
>>"any God".
>>"Allah is constuction of the the word al-Ilah. That's what the word is," he
>>explained.
>>"Al-Ilah means 'The God'. Allah is not the name of God. Frankly, anyone who
>>thinks that Allah is the name of God, is not just incorrect, but is going
>>against the Quran itself. It is almost a blasphemous thought to think that
>>Allah has a name.
>>"And this is not an interpretation. It is a historical fact," Reza added.
>>In its judgment, the Court of Appeal's three-man panel ruled that the word
>>Allah "was not an integral part of the Christian faith and practice and that
>>such usage if allowed, will inevitably cause confusion within the community".
>>The decision sparked a debate among local clerics and scholars, while
>>several editorials in Muslim countries expressed their surprise over the
>>issue.
>>Pakistan's Daily Times questioned the ruling, asking why Malaysia would deny
>>people of other faiths to "own God in all His attributes". The United Arab
>>Emirates's The National called the court ruling "wrong", and said the word
>>Allah was never exclusive to Islam but used by both Christians and Jews to
>>refer to God even before the advent of Islam.
>>Aslan poured scorn on the court verdict, asking, "How can you read that and
>>not laugh?"
>>Soon after the court ruling last week, he had taken to Twitter and remarked,
>>"How stupid has Malaysia just become? In honor of Malaysia banning the word
>>Allah by non-Muslims I suggest US ban the word 'twerking' by anyone over age
>>of 17," he said, referring to a type of sexually provocative dance.
>>Much of Aslan's interview yesterday was made available on Podcast.
>>In it, he slammed those who argue that the faith of Malaysian Muslims can be
>>undermined if Christians use the word Allah.
>>"This idea that not only should Christians not be able to use this word, but
>>that using the word is somehow a threat to Islam... that Malaysian (Muslims)
>>are so stupid if they hear a Christian use the word Allah, they will
>>accidentally become Christians. I mean, the idiocy of that statement speaks
>>for itself," he said.
>>Echoing many other Muslim scholars and writers, Aslan said Christians and
>>Jews in the Arabian peninsula since before the time of the Prophet Muhammad
>>had been referring to God as Allah.
>>"Why? Because they spoke Arabic... that's why. Not because Allah meant a
>>specific God but because that it is nothing more than the Arabic word for
>>God. It is not an opinion. It is a fact," he pointed out.
>>"Any Imam that tells you God has a name, is blasphemous. It is as simple as
>>that. Allah is not God's name. Muslims do not own the word itself," said the
>>41-year-old Iranian-American, who is Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies
>>at the University of Iowa. - October 22, 2013.
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