If there was no evil in the world, then how would we recognise good? If all is good, then how would we learn to truely appreciate that good? The existence of evil, or the apparently malavolent nature of God, is not that big of a stumbling block. The story of Musa (as) and Al-Khidr is an excellent demonstration of how what we percieve to be bad, can in fact, be good. Furthermore, if there is an afterlife, then surely that afterlife is would be apt compensation for a life of misery; the misfortune of the ephemeral pales in significance against the majesty of the eternal.
Do you know how many times I have been told that Hassan1? Do you know how many times I tried to believe it? It just a platitude that has no substance. Break it down and examine it against the experience of Humanity. Are you saying that God is unable to create beings who understand good and evil without such terrible suffering and pain? Without billions dying, crying and and losing all hope under unbearable pain and tragedy? And how does this lead one to know good?
Tell me how does the grief and pain of having one's baby crushed in an earthquake or daughter drowned in a Tsunami or son struck down by a debilitating illness make one see good?
How does having everything you cared for and loved destroyed and your life filled with such pain that you no-longer wish to wake up in the morning show you Good?
The story of Musa and Khidr is laughable. Think about the story of the boy Khidr murdered. Imagine you have a son and he is murdered. How will you feel? All the hopes and dreams you had for him. The dream of seeing him married and happy. The days you bounced him on your lap and kissed his cuts better. The times you hugged him when he had a nightmare or carried him on your back because his little legs were tired. The times you brushed his hair and straightened his jacket as you sent him off to school to learn and be the best and dreamed one day you would watch his graduation. How proud you were of his drawings and the lego models he made. How you felt when he kissed you and told you he loves you. And how you cried night and day when he was murdered. How that pain never goes and you carry it all your life.
The joy you felt at another child will never take that away.
Then to be told that God ordered his murder because he was going to grow up to be a bad boy - it was for your sake.
I would spit in the eye of that god.
If he truly wanted to spare that old couple then why not give them a son who would not grow up to be bad?
What is the point of putting them through this pain?
Or why not skip that son entirely and just give them the next "pious" child?
What is the point of this charade, Hassan1? Tell me the answer your God has?
And if that God said - it's OK, now I will put you in eternal paradise - that will make up for that pain? You think I can be bribed to forget what he has done? You think I can forget the suffering he put me through? I would have an eternity to hate this God and curse his pathetic idea of eternal bliss. I would tell him where to cram his eternal paradise.
Send me to Hell! Let him torture me! At least I would know he was being himself!
I refuse to spend eternity with a complete bastard!
If it's: "His game His rules or suffer!" - fine - so be it. I don't want an eternity of submission to a sadistic tyrant who plays games with our lives and an eternity of embroidered couches and grapes will never compensate.
I stand with Humanity against the God of Islam (and Abrahamic religions) - fuck him - fuck him to Hell!
Though of course I would never send anyone to eternal torture.
Your God is below all but the most sick of his creation.
Topic: I think it is time for me to leave Islam