Whom are you fooling mr. nayak???

Well in the past few years there has been a great scholar in the islamic world,this self proclaimed scholar of comparative religion is named as DR. ZAKIR NAYAK.Though he may not be very popular in non islamic spheres but he is a well known name in the muslim household,and muslim believe his views as the final judgement on what ever he speaks whether that is islamic or non islamic.This guy zakir nayak runs an organization called islamic research fedretion and though disguised as an authority on comparative religion his sole purpose is to demean other religions and show the supremacy of islam.

like any other fundamentalist muslim his love for islam and its practices are so exorbitant that he even some times (in fact many times)doesn’t hesitate to cross the highest peak of cretinism to defend any stupid interpretation of fundamental islam(more on this on some other blog),one other mania with which he suffers is to always compare islam with any other religion,one can always find him comparing kuranic verses with the verses of other religiuos books (which are often taken out of context)and then using his own interpretations of these verses to prove his ulterior motive that is the supremacy of islam.
He claims that islam is religion of peace,muslims are the only true people in the world,islam is completlely flawless and in what ever small issues in which muslims are involved are not out of their fault but due to the fault of the non muslims who are jealous of islam.What i really want to say to mr nayak is that he claims so many big thing on islam and muslim but cannot he make him self to see what all happening in the world around him,does he think that the fundamentalism in islam which we see all around is just an aftermath of the injustice done to muslims by the world around it,does the 700000 deaths that took place in iraq in the name of secterian violence is not enough to proove that in the present scenario the muslim psyche has got completely bloodstained,well violence in israiel might be an excuse but what logic does he find in pan islamic violence that is present everywhere whether in the southern phillipines ,kashmir,russia,central asia or north africa.What extra proof does he need that in the present scenario where at one stage the whole world is moving towards the ideals of liberty,democracy and secularism the islamic psyche still lives in middle ages where violence is not considered as something profane but a part of power sharing mechanism.If this guy is really serious for the image of isalm then how could he afford to waste his time in stupid and foolish lectures on proving the supremacy of islam,rather the very 1st thing that he must do is to to galvanize the collective psyche of the islamic youth which have got rusted by the forces of fundamentalism and conseravatism.He must take a positive action if he is serious for islam or otherwise he can carry on with his mania,the status quo willl be mantained so will muslims enjoy the victory of this self proclaimed warrior of islam who loves indulging war with other religion on such turfs where he alone is the winner ,judge and spectator of the war,other than he and his small bunch of foolish companion no one really cares for such war.

my conception of man (part 2)

BUDDHISM:buddhism also believes in the concept of reincarnation ,baring few differences the idea is more or less the same as hinduism,so i dont think we need to go deep into the subject.
ISLAM,CHRISTANITY:such faiths like there oriental counterpart dont believe in the idea of reincarnation but at the same time they give too much importance to the lord which i dont find a very fair idea.according to them the almighty lord is the owner of the world or rather the universe who sends us to the world to test us ,if we will please him with our good deeds(which even includes giving thanks to him)then he will award us with heaven but at the same time if we will not do good work then we will be appointed to the hell after we die,now what kind of logic is this almighty lord sends us to test ,is this the soul reason of existence?God sending us to test and then distributing prize or punishing us ,so god is nothing but a judge who loves playing with us,frankly speaking i am not very comfortable with such kind of logic.
MODERN ,RATIONALIST THINKER:The entire process of thinking underwent a great change after the arrival of freud,marx and darwin in the picture.after them in many quarter of intellectual thinking subjects like religions,mysticism and metaphysics were looked upon with contempt,they were reduced to nothing more than the luggage of the past which was a complete misfit in the modern world and which shouldnt be further carried on by the modern era.This new vision looked at every thing as nothing but mere objects and man him self was no exception.For this new aproach man and his various aspects such as conciousness, psychie and others are nothing but just a scientific phenomenon which had found its place in this world out of matter of chance,I find this approach some how intellectually stimulating but sorry i cannot extend my intellectuality to such an extent that such a wonderful world around me will look some thing which doesnot have any sort of intelligence working behind it and which is nothing but just a matter of chance ,how is that possible,the whole journey of man with his own set of ups and down be restricted and reduced to something that is just a matter of chance.This new approach might find its validity in the realm of pure science where every thing can be tested and validated in the laboratory but superimposing this on man's life which has its own nuances and subttlieties is not a convincing idea for me.

One point which i want to raise over here is that i am not refuting any of this as a complete no no, i am not the authority to do so ,in fact why me no one has the authority to do it,every school of thought wether that is religious thinking like hinduism or islam or other thinkings like rationalism or objectivism are made by great intellects and there is some sort of logic (or in some cases pure empirical ,practical kind of evidences) on which there ideas have been fabricated,so i am not refuting them.My sole purpose is just to raise some valid doubts and i dont think that raising doubt is a bad idea,since i have to explain the conception of man it is important for me to first discribe briefly the various different major concepts of man along with there flaws.It well help us in doubtiing our preconceived notions and to have some how a new(i dont think new is a very optimum word to use over here)or rather i should say a fresh insight towards knowing the concept of man as a an entity.I must say that so far what ever i have written is not directly related to the topic that is conception of man but has definately set the prelude for it.

my conception of a man(part 1)

AS my book is based on various aspect of a man it is imperative for me to first discribe my own defination of man.Various schools have various defination for a man,for some its an eternal journey that keeps on changing one body to another(as proposed by oriental schools of thought such as hinduism and buddhism),for some such as darwinism man is a just a link in the evolution of life , and for some such as marxism it is nothing more than a mere object which borns ,lives and when dies perishes for ever.Man has always pondered to know the exact truth behind the meaning of existence ,but as far as my knowledge says no one has the real answer.Every school has got its own set of flaws,Every school has some inconsistency.
HINDUISM:hinduism says that the basic essence of life is soul (or atman in sanskrit) which is equivalent to brahman(the god),and this atman which is eternal in nature keeps on moving from one body to another.till here the idea seems plausible but the point of contradiction arises at the point when one body dies and the soul needs to enter into another body,now what convention should decide this process ,this cannot be just a random process,for this hinduism has a reply in the form of karmic theory,its your karma that decides your next fate,if you have done good karma you will have positive points with you and as result of which you will taste better fortune in your next birth(for exp:you might be born in a well off family and may lead a lavish life in your next birth because of your good karma ) and if you have done wrong deeds then you will taste bad fortune in your next birth because of your bad karma.now mathematically this entire concept looks plausible but if one will delve in side a bid a great chaos will be seen,if karmic theoryis the soul factor that leads the mathematics of reincarnation then it has to be preassumed that man is solely responsible for what ever he does,he is completely independent at every stage of time to make his own descion,but is it the reality.Absolutely not,not every man is independent many times the situation forces him to do,the context always play a very vital role,it is vey tough to judge a man's action with out thinking of the context,just think of a boy living in iraq,who has seen the dismantling of the saddam regime and the malestorm of the post saddam iraq,what kind of childhood had he been living,when he should have known the world through the eyes of education the only thing he would have seen is secterian violence,hatred and animosity,what kind of psychie is he going to get,in the midst of such a turmoil there is a great degree of chances that he will be morphed into a terrorist thus attacting a hell lot of negative karma.At the time think of a boy living in dehli who is born and brought up into a well educated family,who receives proper education and proper upbringing and becomes a responsible and ethical adult thus there by attracting a lot of positive karma.thus according to karmic theory the boy in iraq who became a terrorist should be facing a lot of misfortune in his next birth where as the boy from delhi on account of his better upbringing will be enjoying a great deal of fortune in his next birth.Nt only the entire idea looks unjust but some how irrational also.

to be continued