My article A Few Questions to Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was posted in the FFI website on February 17 and till date it is uncertain whether Dr Naik would come forward with his replies. So far, the article has inspired 64 readers to register their valued comments. A devout disciple of Dr Naik commented that he (Dr Naik) is capable of tackling one billion infidels like me. Perhaps he is right. And most probably, it is below the dignity for a great scholar like Dr Zakir Naik to respond to the queries of a humble author like me. But I consider myself lucky enough that a learned believer has tried to enrich me with his extremely instructive replies.

I request to recall the readers that my first question was regarding the age of the earth. Scientific studies assert that this earth is more than 3 billion years old, while following Islamic scriptures one has to conclude that Almighty Allah has created this earth only 4,137 years ago. The above mentioned learned believer commented that the Holy Koran does not say that Prophet Muhammad was 90th descendant of Adam and hence my calculations are baseless and contrary to Islamic scriptures. Perhaps the said learned believer does not know that every article, before it is published in the FFI website, has to undergo close scrutiny by a board of learned editors. So, not even a single statement in my article is contrary to Islamic scriptures.

My second question was-What was Allah doing before creating this heaven and earth 4,137 years ago? And did Allah exist before his creation? According to the said believer, it was a foolish question as Allah is eternal and hence he has no past, present and future. According to Dr Naik, Allah is best defined by 4 verses of the 112th Sura (Sura Ekhlas) of the Holy Koran that says - “Say; Allah is one, the eternal Allah. He begot none, nor was He begotten. None is equal to Him” [tr: N J Dawood (word God replaced by Allah as, according to Dr Zakir Naik, the word God cannot be the true translation of Allah]. So, it is better to investigate the real nature of Allah, as narrated in the Koran and reliable Hadith. However, a hadith throws some light on the whereabouts of Allah before he created this heaven and earth. It says, “I asked the Prophet, ‘Where was Allah before His creation?’ Muhammad replied: ‘He was in a cloud with no air underneath or above it” (Tabari I:204 ). But the question remains - Who created those clouds in which Allah took shelter, before Allah had begun his creation?

As Muslims do not worship the idol of Allah, many believe that Islamic Allah is formless. But the notion is entirely wrong. Islamic Allah has a physical body, which is 60 cubit tall (Shahih Muslim-6809). Furthermore, Allah’s appearance is like a human being, as Allah created Adam in his own image (SM-2872). Another Hadith (SM-6325) says that a Muslim, during a conflict, should not deface another Muslim, as Allah has created every human face like that of his own. This Hadith confirms the notion that the physical appearance of Allah is more or less like human beings, but he is 60 cubits tall and, perhaps, he remain invisible to man. The verse (6:101) of the Holy Koran says that Allah does not have a wife and this confirms that Allah is almost a male human being, but he has extraordinary miraculous power or qudrah. Moreover, Allah is a sexually capable man.

During the life-time of Prophet Muhammad, a debate arose between the Jews and the Christians of Medina, where the Prophet himself was present. In that debate, the Jews were refuting the claim of Christians that Jesus was the son of Allah. The Jews ridiculed the Christians and said - “Did Allah sleep with Maryam?” This could have been a basis for the Christians to establish their claim. But the Prophet was not ready to admit the same as in that case Allah could have been convicted of committing adultery. At last, the Prophet could settle the dispute by saying that, as Allah had created Adam from clay by his extraordinary miraculous power (qudrah), in a similar manner, Allah created Jesus, in Maryam’s womb, with his qudrah. The incident confirms beyond all doubt that Islamic Allah is almost a male human being capable of procreating a baby in the womb of a human lady by sexual intercourse. [The incident has been narrated in KABAR PATHEY (On the Road to Kabaa),Vol-2, p-190) by the reputed Bengali author Mr Abdul Aziz al Aman]. One may note here that, though Allah is a male human being, his masculinity has ever remained unused, as he has no spouse and he does not commit adultery with any other woman. Experience says that, if a human organ is left unused for quite a long time, it loses its usability. So, perhaps Allah has gone impotent due to non utilization of his masculinity for past thousands of years.

In addition to a 60 cubit tall physical body, Allah has physical attributes like wrathfulness, envy, cruelty and so on. Due to his enviousness, Allah becomes violently angry when a man worships any other God besides Allah. He punishes such a sinner with grievous punishment (azab), either in this world or in with hell-fire in his next life. Moreover, Allah is highly biased or discriminative. He is most merciful (Rahmanir-rahim) only to the Muslims, but a cruel despot, a ferocious demon to the non-Muslims. According to Vedantic viewpoint, such a god with a physical body and physical attributes, is incapable of resisting the onslaught of time and hence cannot be eternal. Such a God has to undergo birth and death and is bound to get older with time and ultimately perish like all other living beings. So the Vedantic God Brahman is formless, genderless and devoid of any physical attributes. It is finer than the finest and hence cannot be seen with the eyes, cannot be heard by the ears and cannot be perceived by any other senses. The only attribute It has is consciousness. Such a God alone is capable of sustaining the onslaught of time and be eternal. It is easy to understand that it was not possible for the illiterate nomads of Arabia, the authors of the creed called Islam, due to lack of adequate grey matter in their brains, to comprehend such a God. Just telling one that “our Allah is eternal” is not enough. It must have to be established by reasons. Though FFI does not permit a writer to glorify any religious belief, I have no other option but say these words regarding the Hindu Vedantic God, as the same reader asked me to say what Hinduism says about the eternity of God.

It should also be pointed out in this context that in every lecture, Dr Zakir Naik says that Allah of Koran is omniscient and omnipresent. But even a billy goat can understand that such an Allah, with 60 cubit tall physical body, can never be omnipresent. In such a case, Allah’s body will be torn into pieces endangering his very existence. Only the Vedantic God Brahman, devoid of a physical body and physical attributes, can be omnipresent and omniscient. Perhaps Dr Zakir Naik is aware of all these things, but he, being a slave of Arab imperialism, has no right to tell the truth. He will instantly be declared an apostate and his life will be at stake, if he ever attempts to tell the truth.

In this context, it is extremely important to note that, in one of his lectures, while he was comparing Islam with Hinduism, Dr Zakir told a blatant lie. Following the Vedantic God Brahman, he said that Koranic Allah is genderless. The present author cannot read Arabic and hence he is unable to say what is written in Arabic Koran. But in all its English translations, the authors have mentioned Allah as “He”. Had Allah been projected genderless in Arabic Koran, they would have used the word “It”, instead of “He”.

As I have pointed out earlier, in the said lecture, where Dr Zakir has tried to establish similarities between Hinduism and Islam, the CD begins with the pictures of distant galaxies taken by NASA with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is to impress the viewers that Allah, the creator of heaven and earth, has created those galaxies within 6 days of his creation. At the same time, Dr Zakir Naik tells lies and says that Allah has created this universe. In tune with Dr Naik, A reader of my article A Few Questions to Dr Zakir Naik on Islam has commented that, Allah has created this universe from nothingness. Bur the wisdom of Allah, as reflected in the Koran, reveals that Allah was ignorant of even the existence of the solar system, existence of other planets and the real nature of the stars and planets, not to speak of the vast universe, of which the earth is a very insignificant part. The Koran only says that Allah has created the heaven and earth and nowhere in that book there is the mentioning of the universe. Moreover, the Koranic earth is flat like a carpet covered by a solid roof (21: 32) called the sky and the sun and the moon revolving round this flat stationary earth (21: 33). The verse (67: 3) of the Koran asserts that, Allah has created the roof and the seven heavens with such perfection that no one is able to find a crack in Allah’s creation. All such revelations obviously reflect very limited knowledge of Allah regarding real nature of this vast universe.

Even for the sake of argument, if one admits that Allah has created this universe with all its distant stars, galaxies and nebulae, one has to admit, according the Koranic descriptions, all these heavenly bodies lie below the solid sky, above which Allah has created his seven heavens. Furthermore, according to modern astronomical data, these distant stars and galaxies are hundreds of thousand or millions of light-years away from the earth. It necessarily implies that the solid sky, as well as, the seven heavens of Allah, is also millions of light-years away from the earth. So it becomes really difficult to comprehend or, to speak frankly, horribly unbelievable that the Prophet, during his journey to heaven (miraj) covered such a distance within a few worldly hours. Dr Zakir Naik may argue that the divine animal Buraq and Allah’s qudrah made this impossible possible.

In the present context, it is necessary to mention a few other extremely ridiculous astronomical knowledge of Allah, as reflected in the Koran and other Islamic scriptures. It has been pointed out earlier that Allah is ignorant of the fact that the earth is spherical in shape. The verse (17: 12) of the holy Koran says, “We made the night and the day twin marvels. We enshrouded the night with darkness and gave light to the day, so that you may seek the bounty of your Lord and learn to count the seasons and the years. We have made all things manifestly plain to you”. The text of the verse is sufficient to prove that Allah is quite ignorant of the diurnal motion of the earth. One can easily understand that It is not possible for Allah to comprehend the rotation of the earth, which according to him is flat like a carpet. The verse (18: 83-86) of the Koran says that the sun sets in a marshy land and the Macedonian Prince Alexander went to the spot where the sun sets. He also observed that the sun was setting in a pond.

A hadidh by Bukhari says, “I walked hand in hand with the Prophet when the sun was about to set. We did not stop looking at it. The Prophet asked, ‘Do you know where the sun goes at sunset?’ I replied, ‘Allah and His Apostle know better.’ He said, ‘It travels until it falls down and prostrates itself underneath the Throne. The angels who are in charge of the sun prostrate themselves, also. The sun asks permission to rise again. It is permitted. Then it will prostrate itself again but this prostration will not be accepted. The sun then says, “My Lord, where do You command me to rise, from where I set or from where I rose?” Allah will order the sun to return whence it has come and so the sun will rise in the west" (Shahi Bokhari: V4B54N421).This hadith helps one to confirm what has been said earlier.

The texts of some ahadith also imply that Allah is ignorant of the annual movement of the sun and, hence, the real cause of changes of seasons. For example, Tabari ( I:232) says “Gabriel brings to the sun a garment of luminosity from the light of Allah’s Throne according to the measure of the hours of the day. The garment is longer in the summer and shorter in the winter, and of intermediate length in autumn and spring. The sun puts on that garment as one of you here puts on his clothes.” A Bokhari hadith, in this context, says, “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘The Hell Fire complained to its Lord saying, “O my Lord! My different parts are eating each other up.” So, He allowed it to take two breaths, one in winter, the other in summer. This is the reason for the severe heat and bitter cold you find in weather” (V4B54N482). Another hadith mentions an extremely ridiculous thing and says, “The sun and the moon were in eclipse for seven days and nights.” (Tabari I:332).

From the above narrations, it is not difficult for a reader to understand what kind of treasure of scientific knowledge there is the Koran and other Islamic scriptures.

But one is astonished to see that Muslims scholars, only to befool the kafirs, writing books on science in the Koran and say Koran mentions Big-Bang theory, nuclear physics, genetic science and every other modern scientific topic. There is not even an iota of doubt that the contents of all such books and essays are blatant lies and fit for the horde of donkeys called believers. These lies helped me a lot to understand Dr Naik and to identify him as a model, employed by the rich Arabs in their video ads to promote sale of Islam.

To conclude, I should say that, I feel pity for Dr Zakir Naik. Being a son of the land of Vedanta, he has set out to sell a decomposing carcass of Arabia, the stink odour of which is making people to vomit. But Dr Naik is saying, “It is the best thing in the world and everyone should adore it”. However, it is not clear what is inspiring Dr Naik, whose routine job is to denounce Hinduism, to use the Hindu surname Naik (perhaps with pride), which is simply a corrupt of Sanskrit nâyaka (a leader).

 

This article first appeared in faithfreedom.org.