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Mental Bondage in the Name of God

by Aidid Safar

396 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1452; ISBN 1-4120-6541-0; US$30.50, C$35.50, EUR25.00, £17.50

Religion enslaves the mind, body and soul. It keeps us from experiencing the reality of our oneness, and teaches us of separation.

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About the Book

A comprehensive study of one of the three main religions from its original scriptural text. It exposes the manner of how the enemies of a prophet distorted the 'words' to create a religion of 'Islam' as we know and see it today. Like Judaism and Christianity, the religionists have invented the Arab religion. Obviously, this research shocks the Muslims around the world, yet it sovereigns the bondage of the critical minds among them – it is a revelation to humanity.

About the Author

I am writing under a pseudonym - perhaps it may not be necessary. However for your information, I am writing briefly about my personal background. Born in 1943 to a Muslim family I am an economist by profession. He started his career as an assistant economist with the Ministry of Finance in his native country before he obtained a Masters degree at Oxford University, United Kingdom. At the age of 40 he learned the Arabic language and attended the inter-religious study for four years. Well read about the Old and New Testament, Talmudic literature, Quran and Islamic jurisprudence. His next book will be The Literal Translation of the Quran before he writes a final essay on Christianity and Judaism.

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Excerpt from Preface

With all that humans have been taught by their religions by their priests and their rabbis and their mullahs - how is it that, in the collective experience of a huge portion of humanity, it has not done any good?

How much more will mankind allow themselves to endure before they begin looking for the underlying reason that the world is the way it is? Those who say that they believe God is powerful enough to be the cure for the world's ill, have themselves failed to see that an inaccurate belief could be more powerful to be the real cause.

The majority of people on earth regardless of their standing are slaves to earthly gods in the name of religion – consciously or not.

For example, people who enslave their minds who thought they knew what God wants called themselves the Chosen People hanged men and women in town squares, and burned others on the stake, holding up the Good Book and declaring them witches. They are the same people who passed laws making it illegal for humans of differing races to marry.

Approximately 1.5 billion people have shackled their mind to a bigoted idea that God needs their worship, animal sacrifice, ritual prayer, fasting, and homage to a rock hunk that symbolises God’s Glory. Their earthly gods told armies of Muslims to send marauders far and wide to kill and conquer every land and culture and bring it under the Nation of Islam.

Almost two billion people are in bondage to the idea that suffering to be used by them to better themselves, and to purify their soul. One whole religion is built upon this belief, asserting that all beings have been saved by the suffering of one being, who died for the sins of the rest.

Behind Abraham, a man called Moses committed himself to the Ten Commandments, a providence that could lead to an orderly way of life assuring peacefulness. Without his knowledge, his enemies wrote the Talmud, the Jews see as God's revelation. It becomes the tenets of Judaism, a religion unknown to him.

Jesus went to the same community calling them to restore the original law - and for that - the Talmudic rabbis decreed that he was guilty of blasphemy and ordered him to be crucified. A simple question comes to mind. Did he die because he sinned against the rabbis - or for the sins of the rest? The answer traumatises every dogmatic mind - including that of United State President. Nevertheless, a new religion was created after him. Like Moses, Jesus never knew there would be a religion called 'Christianity'.

Out of mercy the creator sanctioned the same providence to an Arab confirming previous scriptures, but his own people created a new religion and packed it with Arab myth and tribal cults. Like Moses and Jesus, Muhammad had no idea about any religion called Islam. This kind of news is obnoxious to the bigoted minds, including that of armed forces or police generals, Supreme Court judges, or scientists. Unfortunately, that is the truth.

Organised religion creates a system of one direction of power to control. Pharaoh enslaved people with religion. Today, Kings and Queens, Presidents and Prime Ministers and their officials knowingly or unknowingly are slaves of Pharaohs in different garbs of rabbis, priests, monks, and mullahs. Thus, Pharaoh's artifice is here to reign - unless we start to think!

So far, no organised religions had provided mankind with effective guidance in how to live as one nation, in peace and harmony. They have created dissent, disorder, and their doctrines are taking us from the light of life to the deepest abyss. People now live in mass hypnotism and mental bondage. Have we lost the courage to take the challenge to unload the burdens and remove the chains that binds us?

Excerpt of Part One

The religionists say that the stone house in Mecca is God’s house. They call the rock structure in Mecca the baytul-lah or God’s house. The term God’s house or baytul-lah is not found in the Qur’an. If this concept is so central to Muslim belief, how is it that it escapes mention in the Qur’an? It must be another Arab fabrication.

From another perspective, were this supposition true, it would stand to reason that God, the Lord of the Universe lives in this tiny 627-square foot hollow rock cube in Mecca. Simply because baytul-lah is presented as an endemic Arabic term nobody has bothered to check the true meaning of the word. Muslims the world over does not question what they are saying when they utter the word baytul-lah because the word has been proclaimed ‘divine’ and thus its significance cannot be questioned. To question this would invoke accusations of heresy.

Excerpt from Part 3

Today, billions of people are devoting themselves to religions. All religions share common features. Whatever the details, the most important commandments are:

1. Thou shalt worship.

2. Thou shalt ritually pray according to thy priest’s teachings.

3. Thou shalt pay the caretakers of thy religion.

4. Thou shalt believe that we alone have the Truth.

There will be a mass of further detail, but this takes care of the general landscape.

The Lord of the Universe in His wisdom has warned us about religion and its caretakers. The objective of religion is to cheat people and to divert the innocent from the path of God. All religious teachers share one common aspiration: they espouse a false system and then collect financial tribute from their followers.

"O you who believe, the priests and the religious scholars cheat the people out of their money, and they divert everybody from the path of God". (9:34)

As an example, it is very common these days for the funeral rites to cost as much as four or five thousand pounds (depending on the kind of religious experts you engage to perform the rituals). However, these priests and religious scholars cannot guarantee the dead man will get to Heaven (which is, inescapably, the stated objective of all religions). We also see that there is an array of religious rituals for new-born babies, yet our own eyes bear witness that many of these ‘religiously’ blessed babies grow up to become anything. No priest or scholar can guarantee a ‘religiously’ blessed marriage will not end in divorce. Those who follow religion will surely fall prey to the designs of their religious priests on their wealth sooner or later.

Excerpt from Introduction:

Moreover, the same discrepancies, contradictory statements and illogical interpretations of passages of the Qur’an have found their way into all the translations of the Qur’an. I could not find even a hint of the important matters I had uncovered in any one of the many translations available. For instance, the subject of wildlife conservation – which is discussed in a later chapter – was distorted in all cases to become pagan rituals.

Excerpt on Arab religious law.

It is no wonder that the Arab world is in confusion and chaos. The religious laws of the Arab religion vary from country to country: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Algeria, Oman, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and many other places have differing laws all claiming to be inspired by God. How is it that a divinely inspired law varies so much by geographical location? It can only mean that each location has a different ‘religious god’ at the helm. This has reduced Islamic ‘shari’ah’ law to a comical position. No two ‘Islamic’ countries have the same ‘Islamic’ laws. If it weren’t so sad, it would be hilarious.

Excerpt from Chapter 12

Translators of the Quran differ in their understanding, and some of them have erroneously said budna means the camel. They have already confused themselves with the words Jamal, ibbil, ba’ir, rikab, heem, ‘shar as camels, but upon realising too many words became camel they make a slight change to the word dhomir in 22:27. This time they say ‘skinny camels’! It seems that each time the Arabs cannot understand God’s Arabic in the Quran they will tell translators and their scholars – ‘it is a camel’. It is the dilemma of the Arab religion.

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