http://www.mideastyouth.com/2010/11/14/atheist-of-the-week-muhammad-al-warraq/ Atheist of the week: Muhammad al Warraq by Lord Kavi November 14th, 2010 “Atheist of the week” will introduce one Bright, each week. Who are Brights? Brights are identify variously under other terms or identities, including atheist, humanist, secular humanist, freethinker, objectivist, rationalist, naturalist, materialist, agnostic, skeptic, apatheist and so on. This week, Muhammad al Warraq: Muhammad al Warraq (Arabic: الوراق) was a 9th Century skeptical scholar and critic of Islam. He was a mentor and friend of scholar Ibn al-Rawandi in whose work The Book of the Emerald he appears. Some Muslim sources have described him as being a Muslim and others a Manichaean. He is one of famous and alleged zendiqs (individuals whom are considered to hold views or follows practices that are contrary to central Islamic dogmas.) in Islamic history. Al-Warraq was skeptical of the existence of Allah because “He who orders his slave to do things that he knows him to be incapable of doing, then punishes him, is a fool.” Warraq also doubted claims portraying Muhammad as a prophet: That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully, but this does not mean that he had real knowledge of the future. And certainly the fact that he was able to recount events from the past does not prove that he was a prophet, because he could have read about those events in the Bible and, if he was illiterate, he could still have had the Bible read to him. Al-Warraq challenged the notion that Islam was a revealed religion. He argued that if humans are capable of figuring out that, for instance, it is good to be forgiving, then a prophet is unnecessary, and that we should not heed the claims of self-appointed prophets if what is claimed is found to be contrary to good sense and reason. Warraq admired the intellect not for its capacity to submit to a god, but rather for its inquisitiveness towards the wonders of science. He explained that people developed the science of astronomy by gazing at the sky, and that no prophet was necessary to show them how to gaze. He also said that no prophets were needed to show them how to make flutes, either, or how to play them. The primary source for modern researchers with rich materials about some controversial personalities such as Muhammad al Warraq is Muhammad Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (853 A.D. – 333 AH / 944 A.D.) book of “Kitäb al-tawhld”. He was an Iranian Muslim theologian, and a scholar of Islamic jurisprudence and Qur’anic exegesis. Al Maturidi is one of the pioneers of Islamic Jurisprudence scholars and his two works are considered to be authoritative on the subject. He had a “high standing” among the scholars of his time and region. reference: Wikipedia *** Jesus, Buddha, Gurus Sikh, Baha’i, & Karl Marx can be compared because of they teach love & justice. It is different wih Muhammad. I read Koran, Hadith, and Sira and found that Muhammad is a ROBBER, MURDERER, TERRORIST, PEDOPHILE, NECROPHILE, CHILD MOLESTER, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW MOLESTER, AUNT MOLESTER. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
