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Early Islam
Narratives as Ideological Underpinnings; Modern Muslim Theologians' Ignorance
of their Pre-Islamic Heritage; Educational-Academic Colonialism; and the Modern
World's Fake Search for Peace
Around the end of 2020, I read an
excellent scholarly article written by an Iranian specialist of Early Islam;
the scholar refuted the veracity of the narrative as per which one of Prophet
Muhammad's companions, Muhammad bin Muslamah, killed Ka'ab ben
Al-Ashraf, an
outstanding Jew, member of the Jewish community of Yathrib (Madinah). I found
this contribution as well-founded and reasonable at the time.
The Western
criminality in two pictures! They locked the Muslim World in a False Dilemma:
homosexuality and transvestites or hejab and polygamy. Muslims must reject both
nonsensical models.
Before less than a
month, I noticed an intriguing article in the Zionist mouthpiece MEMRI in which
the reporter made state of a poster released by a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) to announce
that it was the 'duty' of every Egyptian Muslim to "behead" (sic) an
Egyptian journalist, whom the poster's author described as 'heretic'. MEMRI
reporter added that the text on the poster offered an 'example' to today's
Muslims to 'prove' that it is their 'duty' to carry out the murder. The
'example' was none other than the speculative assassination of Ka'ab ben Al-Ashraf by Muhammad bin Muslamah, i.e. the
topic of my Iranian friend's scholarly publication.
I therefore wrote to him to immediately let him know
that his topic was not only an academic attraction for researchers, but also an
ideological fascination for activists, extremists and lunatics. I was impressed
by his response in which he made clear to me that he already knew the fact that
various deeds contained in early Islamic narratives were used by all sorts of
fanatics as ideological underpinnings. A very interesting conversation ensued,
and I am now sharing it with you.
My friend believes that, by examining the existing
narratives about the Early Islamic times with utmost circumspection and criticism, we will be
ushered into a more peaceful world. I certainly believe that the suggested
attitude is the only correct, but I am convinced that War is an inherent
element of the postdiluvian world and that there is no amelioration but
degradation, if we intentionally and artificially replace the wars with the
corruption and the sins of today's Western world.
Are today's Islamic
extremists responsible for taking as 'examples' for their evildoing the various
incidents that are narrated in texts written 130-150 years after prophet
Muhammad's death (and are therefore subject to historical doubt, scholarly
investigation, and academic challenge)?
I believe not. Why?
Because this was not
the attitude of all Islamic emperors, kings, and warriors! The supreme example
of all Islamic rulers and fighters, Timur (Tamerlane), did not take the example
of early Muslim fighters, because they were mediocre at the battlefield, less
skillful than him, and unable to teach him anything. Timur's own example and
model was his military genius, initiative and targets.
At the times of
magnificent imperial power, you invent; at the times of decadence, you imitate.
Today's silly and uneducated sheikhs cannot change this rule, whatever their
disreputable and filthy mouth adsorbs…..
The worse combination
of developments was the fact that the decadence of the Islamic world at the end
of the 18th c. was noticed, studied and then exploited by the Western colonial
powers.
France, England and,
more recently, the US, Canada and Australia created therefore entire armies of
Orientalists and Islamologists, who -through techniques of mass psychological
manipulation and in meticulous cooperation with the colonial agents, diplomats,
officers and their local stooges- generated an enormous reaction (from the part
of the local, ignorant religious leaders and uneducated masses). This was
totally ill-fated as it was not based on knowledge but negative feelings. In
other words, the colonials triggered an impossible situation in which Muslim
intelligentsia could not be directed to any other channels than either pathetic
imitation of the Western life or self-destructive backlash that could lead to
nowhere as it would be based on darkness.
My friend calls for
"a revision of the traditional material" (with respect of the Early
Islamic sources); I would not name the "correction of mistakes" a
'revision'. The words one may use in order to describe this great undertaking
matter less; what matters more is that there is no ideological or political
motive in this effort. Western colonials must be left aside, because their
biases brought about Islamic Terrorism in the first place.
No one needs to get rid
of the Islamo-Taliban in order to be thrown into the den of Atheo-Taliban or
Transvesto-Taliban!
What follows is my
correspondence with my Iranian friend.
==
First email to an Iranian friend specializing on Early Islamic History ==
Dear Ehsan,
MEMRI is a Zionist
outfit that monitors and ‘reports’ to the-powers-that-be all truthful and
untrue stories, conflicts among Muslims, and all forgeries that a sick
mind can invent.
As you know, the Truth
is absolute and the lie is relative. There is no lie without some part of Truth,
even distorted!
I highlighted (in bold)
the part that concerns the mention of the topic of your article which
seems to be fully politicized!
Best regards,
Shamsaddin
Pro-ISIS Outlet
Calls For The Killing Of Egyptian Journalist Ibrahim Eissa — Clips Of Eissa
From The MEMRI TV Archives March 25, 2022
On March 1, 2022, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet released a
poster calling on Egyptian Muslims to behead Egyptian journalist Ibrahim Eissa,
describing him as an "atheist heretic" who has "harmed Allah and
the Prophet."[1] Eissa
is a longtime critic of the Muslim Brotherhood and of Islamist and jihadi views.
Since 2015, MEMRI TV published ten clips translating Ibrahim Eissa's calls for
reform. The following report describes the recent threat made against Eissa
online, followed by clips from the MEMRI TV archive of Eissa's statements.
The threatening poster comes amid wide condemnation of Eissa, who,
during his September 1, 2022 show on Al-Kahera Wal-Nas TV (Egypt), questioned
the veracity of the Islamic story of Prophet Muhammad's nighttime journey of
from Mecca to Jerusalem, and then from Jerusalem to the heavens, referred to in
the Quran as "the night of 'Israa and Mi'raj" Eissa reportedly said
that there are multiple narrations of the story, some of which deny the
miraculous journey, and that Salafi sheikhs purposefully omit those narrations
in their teachings due to their biased beliefs which disallow the existence of
conflicting narratives.[2]
Egypt's public prosecutor has ordered that Eissa be investigated
following his statements, while Egypt's Supreme Council for Media Regulation
said it is preparing to take legal action against him.[3]
The threatening poster, titled "Oh People of
Islam in Egypt," by the pro-ISIS outlet, included a photo of Eissa
splattered in blood, with text accusing the journalist of insulting the
divinity of Allah and his Prophet. "He has harmed Allah and the Prophet
[...] isn't there someone among you [Egyptians] who will behead him or cut his
body to avenge Allah's religion[?]" read the poster.
The text then cited an incident in which one of the
Prophet's companions, Mohammad bin Muslamah, killed Ka'ab ben Al-Ashraf because
he insulted the Prophet. The text further claimed that Eissa has
continuously mocked and insulted Islam, adding that suspending his TV program
or the channel is not enough.
"[Eissa's] atheism and impiousness should be exposed, at the very
least, and he should be deemed an apostate who abandoned Islam. If he gets away
without severe punishment, he will take this too far, and his peers will be
encouraged to leave their hideouts and inflict more harm."
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My friend's first response ==========
Dear Shamsaddin
My apologies for my
belated response and many thanks for the really exciting and engaging text you
sent me.
No doubt the stories
about the Golden Age of the Companions serve as the ideological underpinnings
for contemporary Muslims' deeds and undertakings and it is precisely for this
reason that I firmly believe that the narratives of Islamic origins should be
treated with utmost circumspection and criticism. I heartily hope that such a
revision of the traditional material bring us to a more peaceful world.
Again thank you very
much!
All the best,
Ehsan
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Second email to my Iranian friend ========
Dear Ehsan,
Hope you are doing
well!
If you speak of belated
responses, what can I say for myself?
I am incorrigible;
every time I feel a response is an opportunity for further discussion (or, at times,
a lengthy answer that can become an article), I delay to reply!
I.
Stories about the Companions as ideological underpinnings
I find it
incredible that you were not impressed by the fact. Personally, I am taken
by surprise every time I hear people drawing parallels between stories from the
time of the Prophet and the deeds and actions of modern people. And if someone
refers to a story related to issues of cult, I can understand the reason;
but all the rest goes beyond my understanding.
You describe the
situation as «use of stories as ideological underpinnings»; as description
this is correct. Indeed, as a fact it is deplorable. There is no ideology in religion;
there is no ideology in spirituality; and there is no ideology in
transcendental faith. And, more importantly, there was no «ideology» in the
Islamic world. Personally, I believe that the situation that you describe is
mainly due to colonial interference; it started in 19th c. colonial
(French/English) Masr (the so-called «Egypt»).
I find it deplorable
that, instead of perceiving religion as a spiritual and moral set of
principles, people make lists of dos and don'ts, imitate (in a thoughtless and
purposeless manner), and fail to adjust their decisions to spiritual and
moral principles.
Many times, in Egypt, I
thought that people wanted religion and religious authorities to be an
Inventory Office whereby believers regularly check the validity of their acts,
so that at the end they get a «bonus» called ‘Paradise’! Had things
been like that, the Almighty would have created robots and not
humans!
In Egypt, most of the
secondary education teachers make money (more than 75% of their total monthly
income) by offering -every evening- group private lessons
to all their schoolchildren about the topics that they taught them in
class! I said to a friend that in real terms he is a professional thief, and he
was offended. He said there is no law against it; I responded that the sheikhs,
who do not condemn this fraud, are not Muslims. He replied that all the sheikhs
consider these private lessons as «correct» when it comes to Islamic
criteria. I advised my friend to tell them «see you in the Hell»!
II. History
of Early Islam, History of the Ancient Orient, and colonial Orientalist
distortions
The History of Early
Islam is a very problematic issue — academically.
Mainly not because of
inherent problems, but due to external and premeditated parameters!
This does not mean that
there are no inherent problems; there are many, and the lack of contemporaneous
sources is a cardinal matter. However, the scarcity of sources did not turn
the History of Early Islam into a very problematic issue.
PART ONE
We know that
historically, various Muslims stood differently as regards the History of
Early Islam.
This is continued today
in the form of religious universities, being mostly outdated and
nonsensical.
Still,
the independent Muslim scholars, who realize that this path
leads to nowhere, are few.
PART TWO
But Western scholars
(so, Orientalists) tried to both
a-
adjust the History of Early Islam to their theories, worldviews,
political ideologies or (also) theological prescriptions, and
b-
incorporate the History of Early Islam into their preconceived, fake
historical dogma.
Many
independent Muslim scholars reacted against Western publications that can
be categorized as «a».
Many other independent Muslim
scholars accepted Western publications that can be categorized as «a»
— unfortunately, they did it indiscriminately.
Even more unfortunately,
all Muslim theologians reacted hysterically against Western publications
that can be categorized as «a».
But
neither independent Muslim scholars nor Muslim theologians
reacted against Western publications that can be categorized as «b».
Even worse is the fact
that independent Muslim scholars specializing in other historical
periods also failed to react against Western publications that can be
categorized as «b» in their respective fields.
What do I mean?
Turkish Hittitologists,
Egyptian Egyptologists, Syrian & Iraqi Assyriologists, Iranian
Iranologists, etc. failed to identify the incessant distortions that their
Western counterparts carried out in their respective fields. The same is valid
for Muslim Islamologists!
These Western
colonial distortions involve a great deal of concealment and forgery;
they follow two main axes:
- minimizing the
importance, value and impact of an Oriental civilization and of each and
every element of it
- magnifying the
importance, value and impact of a Western civilization and of each and
every element of it
In other words, Western
forgers try to accommodate the enormous Oriental material already
excavated, deciphered, studied, published and analyzed as periphery to their
preconceived forgery of Greco-Roman or Judeo-Christian or Western civilization.
Very few Oriental
scholars attempt to fight against this Western colonial scholarly bias and
forgery.
I will herewith give
you an example from the Achaemenid times; a recent, brief article about
Xerxes that I find pertinent (for the general public) and my letter to the
author.
In striking contrast
to the 'Greek' barbarians, Iranian Emperor Xerxes I ruled the World's most
Civilized Empire
https://megalommatis.livejournal.com/25287.html
https://megalommatis.blogspot.com/2022/04/in-striking-contrast-to-greek.html
https://www.slideshare.net/MuhammadShamsaddinMe/iranian-emperor-xerxes-i-ruled-the-worlds-most-civilized-empiredocx
https://issuu.com/megalommatis/docs/iranian_emperor_xerxes_i_ruled_the_world_s_most_ci
III.
Refuting Outdated and Nonsensical Approaches, and the Modern World's Biased
Search for Peace
Although I find
every criticism, every crosscheck and all the revisions of
a crosscheck as necessary and inevitable, I read with great surprise
your sentence «I heartily hope that such a revision of the traditional material
bring us to a more peaceful world».
Why?
First, every
exploration and study, acquisition and diffusion of knowledge, analysis and
synthesis are human efforts to reach the wisdom and the truth
— not peace.
It is actually strange
for an Iranian to write this sentence! Why? Simply, because
Nizam al Mulk
accompanied Alp Arslan in many of his battles,
and
Nasr el-din al-Tusi
accompanied Hulagu in Alamut and in Baghdad. (And I support Hulagu! He did the
good thing.)
The search for power,
prevalence, supremacy and the search for knowledge, wisdom and truth are
one.
Behind every Nizamiyah
school and behind the Observatory of Maragheh, there are many wars.
Yes, we all admire
Ulugh Beg, the last millennium’s most knowledgeable emperor and leading
astronomer, but behind the Observatory of Samarqand, do you know what is
hidden?
- the illustrious,
fabulous and unsurpassed wars of the Islamic World’s supreme
emperor, Timur!
Yes! I know! There are
literary expressions about «a long and peaceful reign»! True!
But this is for Kay
Qubad and the early Kayanid years!
Wisdom is Innocence;
the opposite is the guilt.
Peace without Justice
is a Crime.
The criminal is the
guilty, and as such, he can never attain Wisdom!
Second, modern
Western science is the systematization of the war. All the Western academics
and intellectuals are criminal gangsters, who prepare traps for others to be caught in wars, diffuse lies, express a paranoid
egocentrism about their filthy, barbarian and bloody History, and do everything
they can to spread darkness that they call ‘light’. Even worse, they
dissociated the nations that they colonized from one another in order to
deprive them from access to knowledge.
How many departments
of Egyptology do you have in Iran? None!
How many
Egyptian scholars can read Old Achaemenid or Pahlavi? None!
How many
Iraqi scholars study Berber literature? None!
How many departments
of Iranology do they have in Somalia? None!
How many Turkish
scholars teach Baluch in a university? None!
How many
Pakistani scholars study Coptic Christianity? None!
I could write
hundreds of similar questions; who caused this situation?
The criminal colonial
academics of France, England and America!
When this tremendous
amount of knowledge is criminally kept fragmented, reserved and withheld,
the undertaking is not called science, but scientific machination or scientific genocide. This does not bring peace, but causes
more wars.
All these idiotic
sheikhs and Islamist militants do not understand that they are the puppets of
those who destroyed all Islamic empires, by exploring, studying and
then secluding knowledge.
The best way for an
Iranian Ayatollah to diffuse Islam is to unveil it (to himself first and then to the
rest of the world)
in Ancient Hieroglyphic texts.
The best way for an
Egyptian sheikh to diffuse Islam is to unveil it (to himself first and then to the
rest of the world) in
Assyrian-Babylonian texts.
And so on, and so
on.
! صومان مقبولان باذن الله وافطاران هنيئان
Shamsaddin
========
My friend's second response ==========
Dear
Shamsaddin
I am most grateful that you
dedicated your time to write such an informative and useful response to my
letter.
Certainly this is in invaluable
opportunity for me to learn from you and to revisit my views.
Yours,
Ehsan
=======
Second email to my Iranian friend ========
Dear Ehsan,
Thank you for your kind
response! You wrote after your iftar; and I respond before my sohur!
I am not a supporter of
Heraclitus, who used to say that "war is the father of all things"
I am not a fanatical
supporter of wars; no! But I want to accurately understand World History.
There has not been
any civilization developed without wars.
I happen to have
discussed the topic many times with different people in four continents.
I make a distinction
between war and civil war; I find the latter abhorrent.
Unfortunately, it
also existed everywhere. To be truthful, the Russian
special operations in Ukraine are a civil war.
Once, I said to a
friend in Egypt, who told me that «we Muslims have been saying «‘As
Salam aleikum’ for 1400 years» (meaning that I was wrong in ‘accepting’
wars as an inherent element of all civilizations), that the only ‘civilization’ that
existed with wars was that of Sodom and Gomorrah, and he
was befuddled.
And this is my
conviction: spaces
without war are spaces with corruption and sins that are far worse than all the
atrocities of all wars.
Why should we
prevaricate?
The introduction to war
free immorality has always been -what else?- hypocrisy!
That’s why I ended up
saying to my Egyptian friend the following: to be complete about «‘As
Salam aleikum’ said for 1400 years», we have to also admit that
Christians have been saying « ܫܠܵܡܵܐ ܠܘܼܟ݂» or «Ειρήνη υμίν» or «Pax vobiscum» for
2000 years!
Shall we lose our hope
to ever achieve peace?
No! We must then all
become Achaemenid Iranians.
Their imperial world
view, stance toward life, and practice were a continuation of Sargonid
Assyria, which was the complete reinstatement of the first Universal(ist) Empire,
i.e. that of Sargon of Akkad.
About: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Universe
Since I am still in
Moscow: Мир вам! Or if you prefer درود بر شما
Selamlar
from Shamsaddin
