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 Topic: New Atheists and the Economy of Outrage on Islam

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  • New Atheists and the Economy of Outrage on Islam
     OP - April 14, 2015, 01:37 AM

    [quoteThe recent discursive assault on Islam and Muslims by the so-called "new atheists" is another moment in the sequence of never ending vilifications of Islam that Western culture seems to have an insatiable appetite for. There is a perverse quality to this culture and discourse of contempt. It is to some extent "performed" for consumption by social media and cable networks to satiate the daily appetite for controversy, outrage, moral judgment and value-based affirmations of the self. The new public intellectuals, who engage in this theatre of outrage, are professionals whose bottom line depends on the frequency and intensity with which the media covers such performed cultural conflicts. The most famous and popular of all new atheists, such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, are full service agents of cultural outrage. They have popular books, blogs, shows, speaking engagements, publicists, agents and a steady stream of aphorisms designed to hook the consumers of this culture of conflict.[/quote]

    Read more
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/muqtedar-khan/new-atheists-and-the-economy-of-outrage_b_7038504.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592


    You nasty atheists, how DARE you insult Islam!!!!
  • New Atheists and the Economy of Outrage on Islam
     Reply #1 - April 14, 2015, 02:20 AM

    I must admit I've lost respect for Sam Harris and I don't like to see him placed in the same category as Dawkins who I have more respect for.
  • New Atheists and the Economy of Outrage on Islam
     Reply #2 - April 14, 2015, 11:09 AM

    I must admit I've lost respect for Sam Harris and I don't like to see him placed in the same category as Dawkins who I have more respect for.


    Why's that? I like Harris and probably prefer him to Dawkins. He is very intelligent and I love his work on free will and the self.
  • New Atheists and the Economy of Outrage on Islam
     Reply #3 - April 14, 2015, 01:55 PM

    Read more
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/muqtedar-khan/new-atheists-and-the-economy-of-outrage_b_7038504.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592  ...  Dr. Muqtedar Khan


    You nasty atheists, how DARE you insult Islam!!!!

     
    Dr. Muqtedar Khan_ AMRIKA
    http://www.ijtihad.org/

    Maulana Azad As A Role Model For Contemporary Muslims by  Dr. Muqtedar Khan _ AMRIKA

    Prophet Muhammad Was the Best of the Muhsins y  Dr. Muqtedar Khan _ AMRIKA

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    I don't know what "Muhsins" is and I don't care but I read those two articles from   Dr. Muqtedar Khan _ AMRIKA.. Now I am not sure whom Muslims of 21st centry should follow??  .. Prophet of Muhammad Hadith Islam  or Porphet Muhammads of Quranic Islam or  or  that   Indian Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed Azad  [/u]( 1888 – 22 February 1958) of that undivided India/Indian subcontinent.??

    Well let me read /add here all that article of  Dr. Muqtedar Khan _ AMRIKA.  on Prophet of Islam..
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     Prophet Muhammad Was the Best of the Muhsins  Posted On Jan 13 2014 By : Dr. Muqtedar Khan


    إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِىِّ ۚ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ صَلُّوا۟ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا۟ تَسْلِيمًا
    Indeed Allah and his Angels send blessings on the Messenger. Oh you who believe, send your blessings upon him and salute him with appropriate salutation (Quran 33:56)
    There is no one in creation more worthy an example of the Quranic verse; Indeed Allah loves those who are Muhsins — those who do beautiful things (2:195), than Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). A Muhsin is one who is in a state of Ihsan and Ihsan is the highest spiritual state possible. It is the farthest station from this world in the journey towards God, and that station is nearest to God than any other.

    God is everywhere. It is meaningless to talk of God as if He is in a place in a spatial sense. There is no spatial distance between God and His creation. He is with you wherever you are (57:4). The distance that exists is only spiritual. The closest to God is one who is so supreme in her submission to Allah that she loses herself and becomes annihilated in Him (Fana’a fi Allah). She ceases to be and revels only in her union with the ultimate being. This state, where the believer and the beloved, the servant and the master, the worshipper and the worshipped, the creator and the creation becomes one is Ihsan. The furthest is the unfortunate soul, who turns away.

    Syedna Muhammad (pbuh) has travelled the furthest on the spiritual path. He reached stations such as Sidrah al-Muntaha (53:14) which even archangel Gabriel cannot aspire to. This station is the ultimate station of Ihsan, the extremity of creation where, creation, sensibility, cognizance and knowledge ends and the purely uncreated begins. While this maybe a spatial location for the nadir of Ihsan, the one who ascends it is the Muhsin of Muhsins – Syedna Muhammad, upon who even Allah and his angels sends peace and blessings (33:56).

    A Muhsin is one who aspires to perfection and beauty in everything. The Arabic root of Muhsin, h-s-n, means many things including beauty, perfection, to better and to be the best. Prophet Muhammad is the best of them because he sought to achieve perfection in his faith and in his submission to the will of God. But above all else, we know that God loves him and indeed God also loves those who obey him (3:31). Above all else Prophet Muhammad manifests some of God’s own attributes such as mercy and kindness (9:128).

    According to Islamic traditions, before God created the creation, he made a promise to himself, “May my mercy prevail over my wrath” (From Sahih Bukhari). The idea that the tradition suggests is that Allah will be merciful in dealing with and his judgment of his creation. Mystical thinkers think of the creation itself as a manifestation and unfolding of Allah’s mercy. But I sometimes feel that God fulfilled his promise to be merciful to his creation by sending us Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). In the Quran he is heralded as “nothing but Allah’s mercy to all the worlds” (21:107). His being connects all of us; humanity, other living beings, and the environment to God’s mercy.

    Indeed I would argue based on the above two sources that the sole purpose of Allah’s servants and Muhammad’s followers is to bring love and compassion to this world. Celebrating Prophet Muhammad’s life is like celebrating the mercy of God, and celebrating the birth of our dear Prophet Muhammad is like welcoming God’s mercy in the midst of His creation.

    January 14th is the day Syedna Muhammad was born 1444 years ago. And for over 1400 years Muslims have been celebrating his life and his mission by sending prayers and blessings for him, in every prayer and after every prayer and every time his name is mentioned. The Quran testifies that God and his angels have been sending prayers and blessings upon him and God commands those who believe to do the same.

    Some Muslims, unfortunately, will miss this joyous moment. They will sulk maybe even curse those who will celebrate our dear Prophet’s momentous entry into this world. A birth that would have tipped the balance of grace between the heavens and the earth, in favor of the earth, when Syedna Muhammad came from the heavens to the Earth.

    ut the rest of us, along with God and his angels, his prophets and his saints and his servants and his stars and his planets will pray and sing and our hearts will dance with joy as we mark the day, that the Mercy of Allah, his grace, his beloved, his friend, came to us. If there was a day of celebration for the entire universe, that would be this day — Mawlid al-Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi wasallam.

    O Muhammad, O Muhammad

    By Muqtedar Khan

    O Muhammad, O Muhammad,
    Peace and Blessings upon you,
    O MuhammadO beloved of the One, O confidant of the One
    The One and his many send blessings upon you

    O Muhammad, O Muhammad
    You were a Prophet before Adam
    You were the light before the dawn
    Love and blessings upon you, O Muhammad,

    O MuhammadYou went beyond The Beyond
    You saw His greatest of Signs
    Your name is on his throne,
    O MuhammadEvery atom, every soul, sends blessings upon you

    He is the most Merciful, The Most Compassionate
    He is All Knowing and All Forgiving
    And he sent you, O Muhammad, as mercy to all
    All of us, sinners and Walis, send blessings upon you

    Every day I dream of dreaming of you
    O Muhammad, O Muhammad
    My nights are still barren, My dreams are still deserts
    Come be mercy to Muqtedar, O Muhammad, O Muhammad
     


    So what is Muhsin? who are Muhsins? help me out.....

    May be replacing the word  "Muslims" with "Muhsins ' might  help whole Islam.. or may be we can build new Islam on Muhsins..  and let me also sing a song on "Muhsins '..."Muhsins '...  mercy   Muqteda  ...mercy

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim
     
  • New Atheists and the Economy of Outrage on Islam
     Reply #4 - April 15, 2015, 07:35 AM

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    Every day I dream of dreaming of you
    O Muhammad, O Muhammad
    My nights are still barren, My dreams are still deserts
    Come be mercy to Muqtedar, O Muhammad, O Muhammad

    Creepy as heck! Lusting over an old man who's been dead for 1400 years

    "we stand firm calling to allah all the time,
    we let them know - bang! bang! - coz it's dawah time!"
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