Thanks Hassan, but you say you still stand by your videos, yet your videos destroy the Quran and it's implicit threatening and posturing, but you now call that 'divine inspiration' ? That seems quite a turn around.
More broadly, I think you may be misinterpreting what Hassan means when he speaks about “divine inspiration.” This is likely because of how limited the mainstream Islamic ideas of God have become.
Despite how much they might protest, anthropomorphization of the divine seems to have become the norm amongst Muslims. The mainstream Islamic god is a REMARKABLY human character. He is incredibly humanlike - limited, petty, and small. That is how so many Muslims view god: nitpicking over this or that, getting angry over this or that, out of touch with his creation, misunderstanding science, forbidding logic, hating progress. The irony is that they also say that their god is “
akbar” and “high above all which they ascribe to him.” Yet, so many Muslims continue to limit him into this tiny, 7th century box.
Though if God truly can be described in such awesome terms as “the first, the last, the hidden, the apparent, and having none like unto him,” then I personally think that it would be something far beyond what we as humans would be able to fathom. Its very nature would be beyond our scope of understanding, perhaps best described as this abstract “something” that Hassan speaks of.
And I don’t think that this is merely an exercise in “changing the goal posts” or logical gymnastics; it is what would be a natural next step as human beings with such an inclination to believe broaden their understanding of the universe. I’m personally attracted at times to aspects of
the Sikh concept of God, though even then I’d have no way of claiming to grasp such a being, and even those concepts are limited by human understandings.
I’d almost want to nix the word “god” entirely, since it is so attached to the celestial tyrant we’d imagine judging us from above his throne. It would be a fuzzy idea. Any attempt to describe this “something” would inevitably miss the mark.
If this “something” inspires, then we receive that inspiration in a very human way, a very familiar way, a way that could only be compatible with our limited, human understandings and abilities. I think this is what Hassan is talking about when he says he can believe Muhammad was
inspired to recite the Qur’an. It’s inspiration in a human sense, derived from whatever there may be out there to inspire us – beautiful at times and horrific at others.
Or, it could all just be a load of nonsense with no reasonable explanation – wallah ‘alam.
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