From the practice of ‘tawaf’ — going around the Kaaba — to ‘umrah’ — the pilgrimage of which ‘tawaf’ is a part — everything has been stopped in Mecca. Pilgrimage to Muhammad’s burial site in Medina has also been halted. Quite possibly, they will stop the Hajj as well. Numerous mosques have cancelled Friday prayers. In Kuwait, new azaan can be heard asking the people to stay at home for prayers. Clerics are no longer claiming they will go to the mosques and pray before Allah to save people from the virus.
That is because the businessmen of religion know very well that Allah will not save us from the novel coronavirus. If anyone can, it’s the scientists, who are busy finding a vaccine, a cure.
The ones who should be truly surprised by such a turn of event, the ones who should have a lot of questions, are the idiots who believe in religion. The ones who flock together like sheep and follow the herd without asking where or why. Neither do they ever seek proof of god’s existence, nor do they have any faith in rational and free thought. Are they not curious today as to why their religious institutions, the ones that are supposed to help them find refuge against disease, have shut their doors? Is serving the common people not the actual purpose of these religious institutions?
Gods are saviours for many, the ones they pray to throughout the year for protection. But when humanity is in peril, it is usually the gods who flee first.
Also read: Saudi Arabia halts pilgrimage to Mecca, Medina amid coronavirus fears
From Vatican to temples, gods are fleeing
Coronavirus has been detected in the Vatican too, the holiest of all places for Catholics. Apparently, the Pope can communicate with god. But why is he not doing that now? Even he has not been able to lead us to any wonder drug revealed to him by divine intervention. Instead, the Vatican is reeling from fears of a viral outbreak and the Pope is not appearing in front of people. Numerous Christian religious festivals are held there. Holy Week, Good Friday, Easter, and all other upcoming events stand cancelled and congregations have been prohibited.
Brahmin priests in Hindu temples are moving around wearing masks. In fact, in some temples, they have put masks on the idols of gods and goddesses too. The Hindu Mahasabha has organised a cow urine party because the outfit believes gaumutra will prevent COVID-19. Some have chosen to cover, even bathe, themselves in cow dung because apparently cow dung acts as a shield against the virus. Religions and superstitions are usually complementary. The Tarapith temple is shut, there are no long queues of people seeking flowers, blessings or holy water. Tirupati temple and Shirdi Sai Baba temple have also put in restrictions. The evening puja and the aarti are being projected on a big screen at Kolkata’s Belur Math.
Isn’t that incredible? Where is god then? Do religious people not have this question?
Also read: Despite coronavirus, lakhs to gather in Ayodhya because this ‘Ram Navami is different’
What’s the point of religious places?
Governments everywhere should stop all grants and subsidies that are guaranteed to religious institutions. The popes, priests, clerics and sundry religious heads of the world are feeding off people’s hard-earned money but come to no actual use to them in times of need. Instead, they are force-feeding people untruths and unscientific facts, sexually abusing children and pronouncing misogynous judgements from time to time. What is the use of such institutions? What have all these religions done over the centuries other than causing harm? Other than perpetuating abuse of women, riots, partitions, bloodshed and pervasive hate?
Religious structures should be repurposed for the betterment of people as museums, science academies, laboratories and art schools. Nature has demonstrated again and again, science has proved again and again, that there is no god and religion is a fairytale. Although many people have managed to extricate themselves from the jaws of religion, especially in the more developed parts of the world, one can find a hyper-reliance on gods and worship wherever poverty, social inequalities, misogyny and barbarism are acutely present.
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Science, for god’s sake
It’s been nearly 160 years since Charles Darwin disproved the existence of god by his theory of evolution. Humans were not made by a Creator, they evolved from apes. Long before Darwin, 16th-century figures such as Galileo and his predecessor Copernicus had shown that the biblical notions of space and cosmos were wrong. Despite this, most people in the world have continued to believe in the divine. Their invisible gods have remained invisible, no proof of their existence has been found to date, but blind faith has persisted.
And now with the coronavirus pandemic spreading from one person to another, country after country, most religious gatherings and congregations are shut. People who would otherwise run to their nearby temples, mosques, churches and other places of worship to seek protection from illnesses and diseases have nowhere to go — except hospitals and isolation centres.
So, the facts as they stand now are clear: diseases are not cured by Allah, God or Bhagwan; diseases are cured by scientists. Human beings are not saved by supernatural powers but by other human beings. Religious people are no longer waiting for benevolence from their respective gods; they are waiting for a vaccine.
Isn’t it time people cast aside their religious madness and embrace reason?
The author is a writer and commentator. Views are personal.
First of all, you need more knowledge about religions to write such an article about religion. Secondly, mosques, churchs or whatever worship buildings are not phone booths where you can talk to God. They are just buildings in which people reunite to worship God, nothing magical as your imaginations tells you. God can here even our toughts. Science said reunions help spread the virus and religions is not against science that’s all. You should read more articles and books to enhance your knowledge, but you’re busy writing them.
You and I will die with naming the death from corona virus, heart attack, bird flu and so on. You are so curious without the knowledge of religion. Our religion says as-
Al-Bukhaari (5739) and Muslim (2219) narrated from ‘Abd ar-Rahmaan ibn ‘Awf (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) say: “If you hear that it (the plague) is in a land, do not go there, and if it breaks out in a land where you are, do not leave, fleeing from it.”
Blunder moronic post…. Get some basic religious concepts before writing such an utter nonsense…
Doesn’t it say that you can’t directly pray for something specific like a vaccine to just appear. You pray for a vaccine to be discovered but not for it to appear right then and there. Obviously you don’t understand any belief behind the religions within the world.
Good Afternoon writer ,
You must have been mistaken alot in thinking lately. How wouldn’t you, you have alot of free time in your hands. Do wash your hand regularly
I don’t appreciate you being this salty of our religion but all is well ” if you don’t like, question yourself first before you act” that’s a great saying there. Don’t just speculate and assume as u please. As per our religion, will handle it as what seems fit. Stay out of it or even better take a closer look. . . . .
Even if religious isn’t practice at mosques and most are under shut down. If you really take the time to dig further you would have realized that we still practice our religion in these hard times and in fact it made us realize alot more than we let on . Makkah may stopped people to make umrah all day but prayer in the holy mosque is still there . Mosque may cancel Friday PRAYER gathering and ask people to pray at home , Azan is still heard 5 times a day , Kutba after prayer is still going and Imam duaa is heard in every HOME. Proves that our religion is engraved in our heart and mind and shines brighter even more than ever. Muslims and Muslimah now look after one another even more theses days. Family gather for all the 3 meals and far relatives calling every other day, friend you haven’t heard of them in years remember you and try to reach you, you have the longest call and actually enjoy family gathering. This shut down made our bond with one another even more stronger. I mean it’s was always there, but we mostly unintentionally took it for granted with work, schools, bills etc. It was hard to even make time for them leave alone time for yourself.
Look at us Now we have all the time for our loved ones without monthly plans or quick visits .
The greatest mistake this article has is that it’s understamates the power and strength in our religion and within its people.
Our government asked us to stay at home and avoid going outside to protect ourself and our dear ones. Our religion doesn’t ask us make irrational decisions and endanger our lives or loved one especially others as well. Despite that we indeed still continue practice our religion in our respective homes. Every each household together and all united in our religion Islam . Praying together with our families and children after Azan, making duaa everyday and learning and reciting Quran. ALHAMDULILALLAH
And one more thing about the cure ! Isn’t it silly of you to think that if you always ask for every single thing and expect to get it, you should get it. Every single parents would flip if they heard u say that.
Allah swt is all seeing and all knowing. He is closer to us more than our jugular vain. Subhanaallah
If you read this, I hope you reassess your allegations.
OH and have a great day, from a muslimah.
Pardon the long response. But a God question is difficult to respond to in a tweet length!
Your bitterness with respect to acts such as bathing in cow urine to avoid virus is understandable. But you’ve thrown the proverbial baby out with the bath water, for there are two fundamental logical fallacies in your article:
1. fallacy 1: To assume that the closure of places of worship is abandonment by God:
Your headline has the same fallacy as saying that the closing of google office means the death of computing itself. God, in almost all religions, is not a localised phenomenon but the ground of all being.
Yet, localisation is important to human psyche. To put it in the same analogy, even in the age of wfh, research shows that people need a physical Google office because humans have evolved in embodied, physical environments that give meaning to their lives .
In fact your headline is dangerous because it incites believers to prove their faith by assembling in places of worship (the yogi jis of the world).
One could argue that when Religious places take such responsible decisions as shutting down in an epidemic, they act from a place of wisdom, a place of Godliness within us. Practical wisdom is not outside of our God nature.
2. Fallacy 2: That Darwin ‘proved’ the non existence of God.
It is an unsettled debate, even in the world of science. It depends on what we mean when we say ‘god’. What is it that we are proving or disproving? When a Darwin disproves god he probably disproves an old man sitting above the skies and meting out rewards and punishments. But that’s hardly how mystics, philosophers and even scientists like Einstein have conceptualised God (I highly recommend you read Einstein’s ‘the world as I see it’ )
This conception can at best be put into language as – the ground of our existence – that from which we have emerged, that which animates all phenomena. You can call it nature (as the taoists did), but what is nature? Do we know it as a whole? (Heisenberg famously said that it isn’t nature but nature exposed to our methods of questioning that we know) Is evolution blind energy? Where did it come from? (science also asks us to just ‘believe’ in the first miracle of big bang after which everything can be rationally explained, but just don’t question why the big bang happened. It is the ghost in the machine).
These are unsettled debates, and cutting edge quantum research shows that just by observing a phenomena we change it, so then how do we ever observe a pure phenomena? How do we know what truth is? (Here I highly recommend reading The Tao of Physics and more recently Brazilian Physicist Dr. Marcelo Gleiser’s talk on the limits of science https://youtu.be/i5WqIi5dJAQ)
I am not a card-holding believer. But I also think that the verdict on God and the mysteries of our existence is not yet out. And that true scientific temperament is to accept open questions as open and leave space for pluralism and many ways of being in a society. Because until science has solved the last mystery on this planet, it has no right to browbeat people into atheism.
Well said and well written. I agree with your view point.
Death is sad, but so is life (if there was no death) Disease is bad, but such bad things are the reason we see goodness in good things. God is omnipotent, but he/she/it is not going to come and calm you down every time you cry, because that is not going to solve anything. You have to learn to calm yourself down and grow.
Remember God is there to reward you and punish you as well based on your Karma. You can think of this crisis as a punishment broadly for the humankind for the disaster that we have made of this planet.
Only stupid people ignore to know and criticize and gossip around, when the whole world including Pope and it’s community are praying to God for protection, for the situation, and to fight against this Coronavirus, the vested interest group started criticizing the Churches and institutions of other faiths. Stop your non sense gossips and pray to God to open your spiritual eyes, whoever criticize the religious groups are those devils who love to pray in the open place in a big gathering, who love to be noticed by others that they are praying, for prayers there is no specific place that God made mandatory only such and such place or Church you can pray, only limited understanding with limited knowledge questions about others faith before looking around the situation and people, stop this business you idiot people who criticize others.
I thought writer’s were supposed to have good knowledge of what they write about. It’s very clear that the writer of this article has never really studied or experienced at least some of the religion’s mentioned. Stick to what you know. The only message really standing out here is the ignorance of the writer.
Taslimah you have not learnt from the lesson that humans taught you. Yet you talk about absence of God. If God deserted people why are the scientists PRAYING to their God’s to help them find a vaccine. Darwins theory was flawed and so is your rhetoric about non-existence of God.
What is certain is we expect writers to be knowledgeable. Your country labelled you, india accepted you, nothing human here, its God’s intervention.
Your knowledge I now see even thru a straw is narrower and baseless.
Salaam,
Oh-my-goodness… That was straight run common sense response, with intelligence.. Which could help her with evolving into a more intelligent and empathetic person with life, henceforth upgrading the species, as this is one of the most beautiful designs of life and how beautiful this algorithm He made is. Beside’s common sense shows this in evolving stages naturally. Amen. Just as it was written. No doubt He built what is the Only. It’s terrifying and beautiful and lovely.. out of love and pure beauty.. Amen. I feel for her because she is wrapped in a world of hurt in her (mind)/brain running at her max capacity of 8%. and she wants that 8% to be the reality.. But just because, she is ignorant of RNA DNA Tcell and Tloop scripting, certainly gives her no license to point angrily at what she know’s nothing about, nor care for others, nor does it give her a right to accuse The One who obviously has power over all. This article is about her hurt feelings in self-centeredness and The Maker acknowledges them, henceforth the lesson unto mankind, to demonstrate what is important? Just as she, would be the species “of weak thought” that dawin observed as the weaker species. But any fool can simply observe as dawin demonstrated, he only failed when he added his own vain empty thoughts aka theory. Amen. That’s just truth, nothing special, but in world of empty thought and self-centeredness sometimes the truth is the most special. Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein said it in the best ways, not to mention the real prophets.. Anyways… that’s just observation of people’s with good minds. Like Einstein said he “ struck ‘all the AWE’ of it caused humility and meekness in him talking of The Maker. And very close to that and the same is Isaac newton. Besides some people’s are just jealous and envious of those who have a* “peace” of the puzzle of life that they do not have. I can tell that you know this. But anyways… the Chimps will kill themselves at times trying keep other primates from what they cannot have. But a pack wolves can raise a Feral human child as their own’, this affection is actually love. But copies of mankind will leave a child in the streets or abandon his children, just as a copy of copy of woman does.. Only God is GOD naturally and obviously. All beings know this… it’s the arrogant weaker species or… also called copies that are disposed of in naturally cycling* back into chaos. Just watch what happens.. Amen. Naturally ~.
God indwells us. He is ever present with those who know him, individually, and isn’t in some faraway place or nearby church, mosque or temple. My God, Jesus Christ is the very last one to leave in an adversity (in fact, he never does), and not “the first to flee”. But you have to know him personally. In adversity, he communicates with us guides and helps us find the way out of every difficultly. Isn’t that beautiful? Do you want to know him? Tell me and I’ll be happy to help you.
there is no place no book no saying where he says I will come to save you. In our Hinduism we say Har Har Mahadev means we all are Mahadev and we have to do what he do so we can get solution. I think same in all religion. But u will not understand..
God doesn’t reside at places . Holy places are the spots where people unite to Remember the creator and hence blessed .I can sit in my room raise hands and pray to God. Shame on print to give platform to atheist bigots like tasleema nasreen to hurt the sentiments of the faithful .
Lol. so many butthurt people here, irony!
You’re being rude to OP which exactly isn’t what is taught by ANY religion.
If you really seek truth, then you’ll always be down for a formal debate, not talk shit and be rude.
For me, science is answers and religion is just peace. I use namaz as a way to seek peace and inner enlightenment (like meditation) and nothing more. Allah and any other god is neither a creator nor a destroyer (ask yourself: who created god then? how do you know?). For me, Earth is god and I’ll do anything to serve her and protect her.
If you really think about it, religion has been a major source of hatred among humans. Science on the other hand allowed you morons to write shit using a box thingy which runs on electrons being pushed around, on which you tap your fingers like a madman.
Whatever in the main article is view of the person who for some reason does not believe in God…We cant blame and point fingers at God at what happens..Where we doing the right things all times?..We as people who are assigned to take care of this Earth has exploited and vandalised..We have to figure put why this virus came..It is time to evaluate ourselves as now the whole World is affected..
Cranky…..next may be you and your family….what about Tirupatti and Sabarimala in India.. Don’t play with religious sentiments.. for getting cheap popularity and money…
I don’t consider myself to be a religious person, but this article is exceptionally bitter.
as it should be. imagine how more prepared the world would have been had we invested in the research of diseases and the global health care system instead of donating to various religious institutions. especially in the 3rd world countries. a very inefficient use of money, for which we will pay with our lives.
anyway, faith and religion are always found within oneself.
as it should be. imagine how more prepared the world would have been had we invested in the research of diseases and the global health care system instead of donating to various religious institutions. especially in the 3rd world countries. a very inefficient use of money, for which we will pay with our lives.
anyway, faith and religion are always found within oneself.
Interesting perspective from someone who isn’t aware that practicing religion is not restricted to places of worship. It is a daily personal act. And it would be highly reckless of any human being to continue to throng places of worship in hordes to contaminate humans…that’s homicidal.
The call to prayer was first altered in the time of the Prophet PBUH when there was a massive downpour and floods in Medina.
If anything, this pandemic has proven that religious practice is valid for all times and can adapt to all situations.
Thank you for your contribution to a narrative in this pandemic.
Dear Dr. Taslimaji,
Many thanks for one thing that you have initiated a good bebate for more discussions and understandings. It looks to me that you have deliberately provoked many! We appreciate.
O.K. But i think, your analysis and understandings of religions are based on your experiences. We are sure you might have suffered a lot. Your rational thinkings are well taken. But your analysis and understandings are based on the religious practices, behaviour of the so called faithfulls, and your personal sufferings in the community might have forced you to outburst your inner feelings and hidden sufferings. And your outbursts are certainly not on the true teachings of any religion.
All religions are for truth and love of all. It is we who have been doing wrongs. Nature, which is nothing but of super power, punishes the culprits whenver they abuse the nature. There are principles to use and manage the nature as per all religions, when these principles are overruled by science, disaster is inevitable. Where science stops, religion or religious philosophy begins.
How pathetic is this? Do you not know what the Christians are doing right now? You are SO lost and SO conditioned, you will be one of the last God reaches out to with such a malicious post when the people of truth are doing FAR more than the BS your illinformed stating here
Get an education before you post you vile scumbag
You couldn’t have expected any thing better from this being.
You couldn’t have expected any thing better from this ….,………..
It is apparent that the writer doesn’t have scientific bent of mind. Even a moron would understand the importance of social distancing to stop the chain of devastation caused by the virus which would be compromised if people congregate at any place, including religious places. She is quoting Darwin’s evolution theory which itself is questionable. But I give benefit of doubt to her as she is convinced about her evolution from ape.
Precautions are being taken world wide to prevent the spread of this disease. Anyone with common sense will understand this. People who lack even that shouldn’t write in the first place and blogging is out of question! This is the most insane thing one can ever utter.
No wonder people follow these two godless religions. Stupid followers
For a man created problem, a man should find solutions too.. if there is so much disbelief, they why are u even expecting the god to come and save you ? Ask yourself, may be you’ll find an answer.
Or may be u r too ignorant to even understand what it means by quarantine.
How is it that you alone are so intelligent and all others are fools? Obviously that’s what you believe. Well, stupid woman, here is something that you ought to take note of. We, who believe in religion and God, HAVE “asked where or why” and have got answers. We HAVE sought proof for existence of God and have got it. Only this is not in the form that can be communicated to everybody on a notice board. God is not something that is the last line in the proof for a theorem.
No believer ever said that because there is God to protect you could walk on a railway track in front of an approaching train. Nobody faithful ever said there is no need for drugs or doctors.
If you ever can put your arrogance aside and reflect, you might just possibly find that just as religion and superstition are two sides of a coin, so are religion and science. You might realize that science actually explains religion, not contradict it. If you find a contradiction, your understanding of either science or religion is wrong.
Our approach to God and religion is not irrational, as your approach to the opposite apparently is. If you don’t believe in God or religion, fine, it is your business. You have no business to call others idiots, you moron. So, just shut up and let people do what they want. We don’t need enlightenment from excrescence like you.
Mashallah! well said. Definitely not her business:..First tie the camel and then trust almighty so it doesn’t flee away
Very beautifully written. You, Mr. Ramesh, should take up writing.
We can only pray at this point of time and ask God for forgiveness. These are testing times for us. Many will try to come and sway us away from our beliefs through such articles. We need to stay strong. Taslima has forgotten that God works thru people.
It’s time to come and work together as one community and pray for all those who have come forward to fight this Virus which has crippled the entire world. Taslima we should be writing about them and take the good work they are doing forward.
Dont agree with this article. Religious Heads and their teams are not running away. They are praying for all of us. They are Angels God will hear their prayers and send a cure but we have to change our ways and be good. We have hurt God with our evil ways. The Religious Heads and their teams have to respect the Government Advisories too but they are doing their best for their followers.
I guess some brains are not fully wired to comprehend the logic and reasons behind the existence of super natural power!!
Would you write this when you are on your death bed and no scientist is able to save you?. I am sure you would start praying and believing in the Creator.
I do not support your views. No Religious Heads or their Religious teams are running away out of fear. They are all praying for all of us and asking God’s mercy and healing. God is full of mercy and he will send a cure. We have to respect God’s laws and do no evil. We also have to keep in mind the Government Advisories to take precautions and the Religious Heads and their teams are respecting the Advisories much as they would like to be with the people and show love and compassion to all.
Darwin didn’t disprove the existance of a God with his theory. He just proposed an alternate theory. Evolution has never been proven, it’s a hypothesis. Creation has only 1 fact. But evolution has several theories. It’s easy to cling to an idea that you cannot find an answer to in order to relieve yourself from responsability to another higher being….
YOU AUTOR WRITER,, YOU HAVE OFFENDED,, MAN ,HOPE,& THE DIGNITY OF GOD AS A CREATOR,, CERTAIN IDEAS OR OPINIONS SHOULD BE KEPT PRIVATE WITHOUT DISTURBING PEACE & GOD GIVEN LIFE, WE ARE THE CREATED GOD IS THE CREATOR,,, NOTHING THA YOU SAY WILL SHAKE MY BELEIVES IN GOD AS A FATHER.YOUR EDITED LETTER IS THE WRITING OF UNBELIEVABLE UNBELIEVER AN OMEN WITH A DARK PAST,, YOU HAVE NO HOPE NOW TO BE A BETTER PERSON , SOMETHING INSIDE OF YOU HAS DIED LONG AGO,WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? THIS TIME OF GRACE FOR YOU IS ALMOST OVER..CONVERT!! NOW !!! TURN TO GOD OR IT IS OVER FOR YOU.
Every one has every right to express his or her self based on his knowledge about God Almighty who is the unmoved mover the creator of the universe .Believe it or not there is a supreme being and that supreme being is God His ways are far more beyond human comprehension and so if you don’t know about Him seek Him and He will let you know Him.
You are an idiot who thinks in a certain way n tries to prove your futile argument. Many things in the cosmos are unseen n unknown n yet they are realisedby spiritual wisdom. Just because u dnt believe dznt mean it dznt exist. You are trying to prove the non existance of God based on culture n traditionsbut remember be it Hinduism, Christianity or Islam…..that one God is tge creator, preserver and destroyer of tge universe n is beyobd the varidness of culture n traditions.
I think that Ms Taslima has not understood the true spirit of science and religion. Even if the entire humanity is to be wiped out of the world because of Corona, that cannot be considered as a failure of science and religion. That can be maximum considered as failures for technology and prayers. While science does not claim that technology can solve all problems, religion also does not claim that prayers can solve all problems.
Dear Taslima Ji,
While criticizing you made the following logical and factual errors which doesn’t suit a “rationalist” person you claim to be:
1) Stopping the “tawaf” is a sign of being proactive to stop the spread of a contagious disease. Had scientists been clerics at Mecca they would have advised the same thing!
2) Clerics are saying to stay at home and pray from there. Just like my rationalist CEO has advised employees to work from home.
3) the “new” azaan in Kuwait asking people to stay at home could be new for you but not for Muslim community. This version of the azaan was already given during the time of the Prophet when’s hailstorm struck asking people to stay at home and avoid mosques. That was a proactive step to save lives which any thoughtful person would appreciate.
To summarize, God has gifted us a brain to use and appreciate the fact that reason and revelation can go together.
Very well written. However, what you are saying is that you will arrive at the same conclusion with or without religion as we are all rational human beings. Therefore, it can be concluded that religion is redundant in today’s day and age. In fact for those among us who are unable to come to this same conclusion, religion is doing more harm than good, if you consider the violence which has been perpetrated in the name of God – To protect him, to serve his (supposed) dictact, defend a particular set of beliefs as opposed to some other set of beliefs etc. Hence perhaps time has come to promote rationality rather than religion.
Why you aren’t irritating by mask which covering the face.How the hijab of Khatija Rahman and other Muslims become problematic in your life.
Truth is painful Mam, thats why so many ignorants are angry in comments section. Your article is harsh truth. Diseases are bought by god so god cant stay at the center of pandemic when humans suffer. Because If God was at Makkah, he would remove Coronavirus from there , but he failed to remove. Thats why humans declare curfew in makkah. Also Its a wrong thinking that god creates life, if that was true, Humans could not create life in IVF laboratories. Coronavirus vaccine cant be created by god, because the concept of Vaccine was never written in bible or quran. If we follow Quran, we have to leave our mothers and daughters to die in area affected by plague. god cant be so inhuman. Thats why humans have a brain. Quran says we are all from adam and eve, that means our parents are brother and sister, but Genetic data exposes the falsehood of Islam. If you question Mullah, he will threaten our lives.
The reason for coronavirus spreading is actually Intolerance and Ignorance. Shias licking tombs and muslims hugging and kissing in mosques. Catholics doing the same in italy.
There was Ayesha Siddiqa (May God be pleased with her) wife of the prophet and daughter of first caliph of Islam. Millions across the world wishes to emulate her character as a daughter, a wife and a good believer. Unfortunately, you carry the same name and I doubt anyone ever wish to be like you as your thought process is in absolute contrast. I’m sure, like taslima nasreen, you too would have brought lot of shame to your parents and all those related to you.
It’s never too late, make use of your wisdom, know more about the mother of believers whose name you carry, imbibe her character, and become a role model and bring pride to the society you are living in.
Love you ayesha siddiqui
Etymology of the word Corona >> “Crown”.
Etymology of the word Virus >> “Snake”.
So … The crowning of the serpent.
Or…. COVID 19
Break it up.
“C” is the third letter in the alphabet .
So , let’s go to Strong’s, Greek, bible concordance #3 …
“Abaddon” – aka “The angel of the bottomless pit”.
Now let’s take the letters ‘OVID’ …
In ancient Latin “Ovid” means ‘Sheep’
Now, 19 ….
Let’s go to Strong’s concordance again:
Strong’s Greek #19 is “Slaughter”.
Thus : “Abaddon (will) slaughter the sheep”.
God knows quite well what’s going on .
So, I’ll continue to take God before your humanistic/rational science – any day of the week
An absolutely skewed and pathetic article, it shows an utter disrespect to people of all faiths, beliefs and religions. Lacks respect for humanity and it lacks common decency. If this is how you plan to build your journalism career than I‘m afraid that there’s very little hope for your future.
Any questioning of religion is always perceived by believers as insult. If you do not agree with the author, answer her points instead of insulting her. Looks like there can never be a debate about religion.
Darwin my foot. He must be as insane as this mindless author. Who is god? Supreme power who created the universe. Apes are creation of god. What is science? The name of the study to understand gods creation is science. God has no name, no appearance or no religion. Stop questioning the faith with your useless knowledge.
I have never seen “theprint” before. Wow…what a way to start! At first, I thought the author was joking around but then realized she was serious. Goodness! You should talk to Ronald Regan’s son and get ready to rot in hell…
“Only the Fools day there is no God.”
God bless all the religious leaders of the world who have taken precautions to save lives during this crisis, lives only they give hope of transcending terror, meaninglessness and loss.
Dear Author,
The way you have written the article, I believe you are an atheist.
Well, let me put some light in your dark life.
First of all, for every creation there is a creator. Human is a creation and the creator is Allah.
Below is reference for you from Quran(The word of Allah revealed on Prophet Muhammad)
“Verily We created man from a product of wet earth; then placed him as a drop (of seed) in a safe lodging; then We fashioned the drop into a clot, then We fashioned the clot into a little lump, then We fashioned the little lump into bones, then clothed the bones with flesh, and then produced it another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of Creators!” [23:12-14]
In every creation there is a sign of almighty Allah.
This virus maybe a mercy from Allah or maybe a punishment. Allah knows it better. For a believer, he needs to put his trust in Allah.
A scientist cannot save your from the death which is destined. It is Allah who can.
Spare some time and read the holy Quran. I’m sure you will get a lot of logical and scientific answers for your existence than believing in an illogical theory of evolution.
May Allah guide you, me and whole of humanity to the right path.
By your logic every creation has to have a creator right? Then who created Allah? Gods are a creation of man. Don’t just talk what has been taught to you. You need to think on your own and ask questions too.
The only thing I would agree with your comment is:
‘May Allah guide you, me and whole of humanity to the right path.’
Apart from that, may be Allah wants a human to help other human instead of constantly bugging Allah. May be what Allah really wants is to stop looking for help from thin air, magic and being lazy and do the real work to find out how to solve our own problems. May be what Allah will be delighted if instead of being wondering who created whom, we care more about no human dies with disease and hatred. Perhaps, Allah already gave humanity enough of wisdom and just want to see how we do on our own and not destroy other other human beings, species and the earth itself. How else Allah should help us when everything is already here and now. So may be it is time to act rather than just hope blindly. May be Allah wants us to always keep learning instead of being dependent on what already is known. What if Allah wants us to do science so that we humanity can evolve and we no longer need to bug Allah for things he can and should not provide.
Lots of May Be? That is because my guess is as bad as good is your knowledge.
Ok. Who created Allah? You will say He is self creation. Logically universe is self creation which always existed.
Wow, this sadly proves that this divine virus that is in your head, which controls your mind is incurable.
This is Islamic principal, to lockdown a city in an event of a plague or similar illness and to isolate if someone has a contagious disease.
God has given us guidance in event of illness like coronvirus.
No body had abandoned the congregation nor has the congregation abandoned the religion.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder. Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
– Psalms 107:13-16
We have to bow down to God the creator. Science , and dissrespect of the poor by the weloff people, and the globalistic mindset is the reason as to why all this has come. Its only to the dall people who dosent nkow that billgets and aclick of greedyminded people are bihind this mess in the whole world. Go and see what he said in years back about disease x. Soon you will see new laws enforced worldwide . You want to kill almost all people especially those whom you think are of less value. But God the creator will and now standing against the whiles against His people He with Us . Through Jesus’ Name there is going to be sease the spread of the Virus.
A childish article. Covid-19 is yet to be conquered. It is still in its onset. A man who claims to have explored the universe and conquered the moon is faltering in finding out a cure for the disease. At present people are surviving only because of their inbuilt immunity provided by nature, if not God, if people like this author are shy to acknowledge. God save this world and God save the author.
God created this world ???
There are people who are working on a proof of God. Robert Spitzer is a brilliant physicist and a Jesuit priest. You should check him out. He sees no contradiction between Faith and science. Open your mind.
Why to work for finding the proof of GOD or the Super Creator?
You can see the proof every where.