Conspiracies Against the Quran

by Dr. Syed Abdul Wadud

Conspiracies Against the Quran

by Dr. Syed Abdul Wadud

"Do not read to contradict and refute,

nor to believe and take it for granted, but to weigh and consider."

PrefaceChapter 1: The Divine Guidance

Chapter 2: Other Gods

Chapter 3: Sabotage of Islam

Chapter 4: The Quranic Way of Life is the Life of Action

Chapter 5: Conspiracy Against the Quranic Text

Chapter 6: Conspiracy to Evolve a Single Religion, Based on TruthsCommon to All Religions

Chapter 7: Mysticism

Chapter 8: The Last Word

Preface

I picked up the idea and felt the necessity of writing this book from the lettersent to me by Prof. J.M.S. Baljon of the Leyden University in October 1972.In response to my presenting him my book entitled, Phenomena of Nature andthe Quran. Dr. Baljon, while appreciating my book, pointed out to me theviews of another Muslim writer on the Quranic interpretations, in the followingwords "Curiously enough I received a month ago from a colleague and co-religionist of you: Dr. Muhammad Kamil Husayn, a surgeon in Cairo, a book he just had published with excurses of Koranic exegesis. In this work called

al-Dhikr al-Hakim

his argument is the opposite of yours, i.e.

he considers itpure stupidity to produce so-called al-Tafsir al-Ilmi..." I have not had theoccasion of reading the work of Dr. Kamil, but I was not the least surprised tonote his views. Since the face of Islam has been changed by the conspiracieswhich I am going to describe in the following pages, there is no dearth of suchMuslims who consider that the words of Quran have got "hidden meanings"and are meant to be used only for their magic effect. Such people do notconsider the Quran as a book of Knowledge.Here in my present work I have explained the vicious conspiracies of variedtypes and origin hatched from time to time against the holy Quran. Suchconspiracies not only transformed the vigorous activity generated by theQuranic teachings into passivity; it rather changed the entire outlook on the lifeof Muslims. The passive Islam prevalent in the Muslim world today is polesapart from the dynamic Islam presented by the Quran. Belief in one God hasbeen replaced by belief in a number of gods. The concept of Sovereignty of Allah in human affairs has been changed to the concept of Sovereignty of thepeople or the Sovereignty of individual human beings. Consequently thecentralization of Ummat is lost. Instead of subservience to Allah, the Muslimstoday are subservient to Imams, Pirs, Faqirs, Mullas and all sorts of politicaland intellectual exploiters. The mission of the last messenger (s) of God wasto release humanity from the heavy burdens and the yokes that were upon them(Al-Quran 7:157). The Rasool (s) achieved this goal, gave a practicaldemonstration of it and left behind him a pattern for the smooth developmentof humanity. But the conspiracies by the enemies of Islam broke that patternand the Deen brought by the Rasool (s) changed into religion, and whereverMuslims were in power, it got bifurcated into 'church' and 'State'. As a resultof it, the Muslims today are growing under the pressure of the same weightsand are bound by the same yokes from which the Rasool (s) came to releasethem. The 'Pharoahs' or the political exploiters, the 'Hamans' or the religiousand intellectual exploiters and the 'Qaroons' or the economic exploiters areagain rampant as much in the Muslim countries as in any other part of theworld. Now instead of one central organization and one code of life given bythe Quran, as it was put into practice by the Rasool (s), there are hundred andone ways of life which have made the Muslim Ummat, now divided intonations raised on territorial basis, fall steep into a position of fear anddependency. The struggle to get out of it but, without the light of the Quran,fall to do so. The only hope of their escape from their present day plight lies in