“To the pure, all things are pure; not only meats & drinks, but all kind of knowledge whether of good or evil; the knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will & conscience be not defiled.”
Dionysius was an extremely respected Bishop of Alexandria. He used to read the books written by heretics in order to refute their arguments. One of the priests told him that it was a wrong approach. Naturally he was perplexed but then a vision from God told him to read all those books, because he had reason & judgment to choose.
“The Lord will know what to forbid & what to allow without your help.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Knowledge is always good whether it pertains to good or evil. If the mind & the will are not already corrupted, books & the knowledge derived from them cannot corrupt them.”
John Milton
We have often come across people who presume everything & they also think they are always right. On top of it, they have the audacity to impose their silly opinions on others. George Feydeau rightly describes them for us:
“Some people are born pests. You can never get rid of them.”
And more importantly, “One doesn’t write for slaves.” Jean-Paul Sartre
Anyway, the thing is…people are entitled to have any kind of views whether others approve of them or not. When they go around forcing opinions & what they think is right on others, the situation becomes all the more ugly. Everyone should know their limits, that is, they have no right to go around bullying others.
Lately we have come across aliens who themselves don’t do any research, but drag in Dr. Zakir. Dr. Zakir is a scholar & knowledgeable person no doubt & he has worked very hard, but to presume that he has all the answers is wrong. He’s not a prophet. I’m sorry to say but being a Muslim, it’s a sin to raise someone to that level. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, but no, they create hurdles in other people’s path & ask them to follow the same thing blindly. What losers! Just by denying a problem, they think it would disappear. The Holy Quran is the primary source & it is incumbent on every Muslim to go through the translations & interpretations.
Again it is explicitly mentioned in the Holy Quran says:
“Clear proofs have come to you from your Lord. Whoso sees clearly, it is to his own gain, & whoso is blind, it is to his own loss.”
“The Lord knows very well who goes astray from His path; He knows very well the right-guided.”
The Holy Quran
It has been so that people with vision are invariably rare & those who can understand them are even rarer. However, there are always people out there who just hate & they can’t help hating & fueling their hate. You can’t pour sense into their senseless heads & we don’t have to either. They are so, as God intends them to be. This is just not our headache.
“Good & evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably, & the knowledge of good is so involved & interwoven with the knowledge of evil & in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discerned, that those confused seeds which were imposed upon Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out & sort asunder, were not more intermixed.”
John Milton
Nadira Rahman
