What are Jinns in Islam?

Jinn are said to be supernatural creatures that occupy a parallel world to that of mankind. Not found mentioned anywhere outside Arabia before 7th century. They are mentioned in the Qur’an, hadith, other Islamic texts and Arab folklore. Together, jinn, humans and angels make up the three sentient creations of Allah. Like human beings, the Jinn can also be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent.

The jinn are mentioned frequently in the Qur’an. There is a surah titled Sūrat al-Jinn (the 72nd chapter of the Qur’an), and verse 67:5 discusses the stars from the “lowest heaven” which are used as missiles against any mischievous jinn that attempts to eavesdrop on conversations between angels.

In many modern cultures, a Genie is portrayed as a magical being that grants wishes. The earliest of such Jinn stories in folklore originate in the book of the One Thousand and One Nights.

In Islamic theology jinn were created from smokeless fire by Allah as humans were made of clay. According to the Qur’an, a jinn named ʾIblīs refused to bow to Adam when Allah ordered angels and jinn to do so. For disobeying Allah, he was expelled from Paradise and called “Šayṭān” (Satan). The Qur’an also mentions that Prophet Muhammad was sent as a prophet to both “humanity and the jinn,” and that prophets and messengers were sent to both communities.

Jinn are usually invisible to humans, and humans do not appear clearly to them. Frequenting toilets, they feed on feces and bones, have the power to travel large distances at extreme speeds and are thought to live in remote areas, mountains, seas, trees, and the air. Like humans, jinn can also choose to become Muslims, will be judged on the Day of Judgment, and will accordingly be sent to Paradise or Hell.

One Islamist challenged me once and said he will summon Jinns to harm me badly in the next 48 hours. That was 4 years ago… nothing has happened. I hope he still trying…

It is all a load of bullshit!!

Ridiculous Hadiths

If you heard a sane person say things like:
– Fever heat comes from hell.
– They know someone who travelled to outter space on a donkey.
– the first man is made of clay and first woman made from his own ribs.
– a man was able to fit a pair of every animal on earth in one ship (there are 1.2 million animal species)
– The universe was made in 6 days.
– a sky daddy made everything out of nothing.
– everything has a maker, and why we are wrong to assume something such as the universe always existed, until you ask how come Allah always existed?
– hands and eyes will testify against us in heaven! Why, isn’t Allah always observing us?
– Owning women sex slaves during wars is morally acceptable.
– Camel piss is good for upset stomach.
– Islam is religion of peace, despite the fact we see violence all around it.
– The quran does not suggest the earth is flat, even though it says 11 times in the Quran that the earth is flat like a rug, carpet, bed, sheet, and spread.
– Allah is most merciful, even though the Quran calls for everyone to convert and those who don’t convert get burned in hell for eternity.
– Women half brain, half witness, and never equal in inheritance but Islam is the most feminist religion!!
– Marrying your first cousin does not give disability, looking at genitals (or talking during sex) makes disabled babies
– Heaven is a 7th century desert dwellers’ paradise with rivers of milk, honey, wine, grape trees, and unlimited sex is still relevant to men or WOMEN in 21st century.

But somehow if the person who is saying it is claiming to be divine and a messenger.. Logic is dumbed and we seem to accept the most ridiculous bullshits.
This and other ridiculous facts and beliefs we accept in the name of religion and Islam are found here:

https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Islamic_Silliness

Shariah law doesn’t work!

I grow up believing Shariah will deliver our utopia.As I matured, I realised Shariah Law is 7th century justice that is inhumane and does not work. For however good intentions are, we humans make mistakes. And who will judge someone to be a thief, liar, killer, or adulterer? Humans. Our current laws means that if we get it wrong we can set them free from prison and compensate them. But how are you going to compensate someone who you cut their hand, tongue, executed, or stoned to death??? This system does not work, and evidence shows that crime rates in civilised countries is low. Shariah is not the way, higher and better education is the way.

As much as they try to sell the utopia of Islam, ask yourself…why is it that even Islamic countries do not apply the Shariah in full, even those with “Islamic” in their country title?

What worries me the most, is the same day burial of the dead. I understand the historical need when we did not have fridges. But anyone who watched CSI or study criminology would guess that thousands of cases in the Arab and Islamic world must be going unsolved. From poisonings to suffocation, and by the time anyone has raised concerns, the body had gone! Islam is not prefect, it was designed for 7th century Arabia and it is not fit for purpose!!

Boycotting: who is next?

Now apparently there is a video in which some restaurant in China has reused tiles in which the Name Allah and Muhmmad are walked all over them…and no one in the Arab or Islamic world moved to say anything. Can you imagine if this was a restaurant in Paris or London? Here is the video:

https://youtu.be/Zac1RYqk9rs

One word: hypocrites! It is as if we don’t really care, we just want to be angry with the people we want to be angry with! And it is all just bullshit.

In the late 1980’s, it was boycott Britain over Salman Rushie’s book Satanic Verses, since then we had boycotts to USA, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Australia, Sweden, Austria, France, and even Canada (do we even remember what the boycott was about?)

They all have the same story, people go down on the streets…screaming, cursing, burning cheaply coloured flags (they do not have money to pay for real flags)….go home thinking they pleased Allah, few days later…they go back to eating the same foods, driving the same cars, supporting the football teams that are in these countries…as if nothing has happened.

Until next time, happy “pointless angry protest’ circus day.

Women and dogs in Islam –

The Hadith proves the author of Islam is Muhammad himself and he had a personal vendetta against women and dogs (specifically black dogs).

Sources:

Sahih al-Bukhari 2658
Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?” The women said, “Yes.” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.”
https://sunnah.com/bukhari:2658

Note: the word used is ناقصة العقل which is a lot worse than “deficiency of the mind” – exactly translation “missing mind” and at best “missing part of the mind”.

Sahih al-Bukhari 5198
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “I looked at Paradise and found poor people forming the majority of its inhabitants; and I looked at Hell and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women.”
https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5198

Why women in hell? Who start wars? Men. Who is more likely to commit crimes, kills, rape, abuse sexually abusing children, cheat, steal? Yet, there are more men in jail yet women go to hell?

Muhammad had an irrational fear of black dogs!! Go to Sunnah.com website and search “black dog” and you will find 19 hadith, all demonizing black dogs.

https://sunnah.com/search?q=Black+dog

Rubbish. Black or white, any pet expert will tell you that dogs are classified by their breed and not colour!! And why devil? Just because Muhammad had irrational fear, he called them devils, thousands of innocent dogs got killed in Arabia over this Hadith. And beyond that, dog (man’s best friend) became our enemy!! Is there science to back it? No. Scientists insist dogs are friendly, and their saliva is cleaner than that of cats! They is no animal more loyal and loving, dedicated to being your companion as dogs. They are responsible for saving countless lives as rescue, protection, and even helping blind people all around the world be independent. On mental health, they help people struggling with depression or loneliness as they are the one animal that will give you unconditional love! While some would say that they are excellent judges of character, it may explain why they did not like Muhammad! As to the choice of colour, let’s face it Muhammad had an unconscious racism with blacks. We see that in the Hadith and even in the Quran 3:106.

Yet another evidence that Muhammad was inventing Islam based on his preference!

Sexual harassment of women in Mecca during Hajj.

What would be more sacred place to be safe for women who are even wearing Hijab? Mecca? While doing the Hajj and around Kaaba under watchful eyes of Allah? Think again:

I would have never believed this if it was not an experience I heard from someone I loved and trusted. My grandmother, reflecting on a beautiful hajj when she returned, kept saying it is the best experience of her life. But several days later, after the guests have come and left, talking to other female visitors she recounted something that shocked me. She said how men would touch women inappropriately all the time, putting their hands deep between the ladies legs. They know women are naked under their Hajj gowns. Every time they went out. Even in the most holiest of places. She was too ashamed to talk about it to the visitors for fear they would call her a liar or suggest she is not a “good Muslim.”

If this is not shocking enough, my grandmother was at the time a 70 year old woman. Can you imagine what younger women would experience?? All at the doorsteps of Allah. Where is Allah? Nowhere, as if He does not exists. So, when I saw this post in Arabic, I had to translate it. Until we name and shame this behaviour, it will only continue.

And this is not an isolated case. Search now “Sexual harassments at the Hajj” and you will see it had been reported many times and it is said to be happening even when women are at the Kaaba – under Allah’s watchful eyes!! Where is Allah?  I will tell you – Only in your head!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/08/middleeast/hajj-sexual-abuse-asequals-iwd-intl/index.html

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-women-speak-out-about-sexual-assault-mecca

The psyche behind sudden religiosity during the Exam period.

This issue of becoming more “religious” around the exam period is a repeated phenomena I see among those who feel they have not been “best” believer and need to fix it quickly before an exam.

All year round, they may not always pray, they may fast but not always be able to hold up, they may refrain from sexual lust but a visit to Pornhub may get the best of them. They feel guilty at times but hold on to the belief that one day, when they go to Mecca, they will ask Skydaddy for forgiveness. By then, they would settle in a marriage where sex is easy, life slows enough to be able to catch up on prayer and fasting. That is the “grand plan” so what do you do when big exams come along and you have not been a good boy or girl?

Suddenly they are extra religious. Now they go back to praying, they refrain from meeting their friends, they stop lusting…if they can! And few use this time to “top up” by either spreading Dawah or attacking apostates online. Yes, I can time my watch to the day – around the late spring or December when the school and universities final exams tend to be scheduled – I get a large following of Mu’mens contacting me. They openly mention they are studying for their exams. When I say, why not talk to me after your exams. They refuse. I am like, why? (I know why but it is good fun to get them to think of an excuse. They need to debate me or argue with me to show skydaddy how much good believer they are in the hope this skydaddy forgives them for the few times they were not so good boys!) I debate them a little, then expose their reasons for choosing this timing. Insist we can have these discussions after their exams if they truly care about the truth and less about skydaddy helping them with their exams. Here is the catch. They NEVER come back after their exams. By focusing on their well-being to study, I help them see that education is more important for me than debating. And I leave them with sufficient doubt that when the results come out (pass or fail) they realise it had nothing to do with any skydaddy. It was purely the result of their efforts.

And just like that, we all win. I hope you take away something from this experience. Salaaaaam ❤️

Other gods talk in the Quran!!

I have been researching Islam for more than 30 years of my life. In the last ten years alone, I focused on issues with Islam. I have come across over 200 scientific errors in the Quran, even more in the Hadiths. I have come across many shocking immoral commands in the Quran and Hadith! I have detailed many logical issues, inconsistences, and contradictions. And even after all this time, I am still surprised with more problems!

And when the polytheists see their associate-gods, they will say, “Our Lord! These are our associate-gods that we used to invoke besides You.” Their gods will throw a rebuttal at them, ˹saying,˺ “You are definitely liars.” Quran 16:86

https://quran.com/en/an-nahl/86


This verse was passed to me by one of my followers on Twitter. They asked, how can gods that supposedly don’t do anything, and don’t even exist – talk back? Will Zus and other Greek gods be in heaven? They are completely fictional and do not exist? Will Egyptian half humans and half animal gods be in heaven? What about tribal goes of Africa? Wait, will the Inca gods there to lecture South Americans that they were wrong? Will the Zoroastrian fire god be talking? Of course, none of this makes sense. The author of the Quran (Muhammad) was referring to the human-like gods of pagan Arabia and with limited imagination, Muhammad suggested that even these pagan gods will confirm Allah to be the only true God. This is consistent with several studies that suggest Muhammad took one of the Arabian gods (Al or Bal) and made this god the one and only God. This the others “redacted” their powers.

I did look at the most common tafsir, none addressed this oddity of how Islam on one side says none of the other gods actually exist yet we have an Aya where they actually talk!

Travel Dua

There is no evidence that Islamic Dua has ever stopped a car from crashing or a plane from falling. It gives the readers a false sense of security that is based on nothing other than hochuspokus (random words). If you consider that no one is listening or responding, then we start taking health and safely a lot more seriously. That is why you find in countries with high religious ratio, a high rate of accidents. Whereas in countries with low ratio of religious people (such as northern Europe, Japan,..etc) they have much lower car, transport, and plane accidents.

Nothing stops you from having an accident if you don’t take due caution and adhere to health and safety procedures. The car seat belt saved more lives than any dua or Quranic verse hanging in the car!!

Adam story part 2

Part 2 of 2:

When Satan refused to prostrate to Adam, Satan said, “Reprieve me until the day they are resurrected.” Quran (7:14)

1- How did Satan know that humans will have a day of resurrection and Adam has not sinned or ejected from heaven yet?

2- Why did he talk in plural (they)? How did he know that Adam would have sons when Allah had not even created Eve yet?

When someone is making up stories, they are bound to make mistakes. And here we have yet another clue to the fact the Quranic verses make absolutely no sense. This mistake is based on the fact someone is trying to fill in the gaps in a story yet they know how the story ends.

How can the devil know that Adam will sin ON THE DAY HE WAS CREATED? You have two options:

1. That Adam was going to sin and be sent to Earth to start this “life test” for all humanity, was going to happen and known by Allah, the angels, and Shaytan before Adam was even created – making a mockery of the whole story that came after and the whole BS of blaming Eve for the apple!

2- The story is all made up! And why not.

If this story had helped you open your mind just an inch, can I invite you to read many many more?