RELIGIOUS ORDERS
Despite the great number of orders (tarikats), each widely differing from the other, and altogether apart from the Quran’s teaching, for lack of space, we shall dwell on the worship of sheikhs and certain incontestable truths common to most of…
THE CONCEPT OF SUNNA
Sunna as a word has the meanings of style, method, way, and behavior. It has also the connotation of the customs and traditions of a community. Although the word usually refers to the acts and sayings of the Prophet, it…
ARAB NATIONALISM
Honesty, good morals, diligence in the practice of religious rituals, frequent reciting of God’s name are the essential sunnas indicated in the Quran. Turbans, wearing robes with long sleeves and skirts, growing beards, eating with the right hand and seated…
ANIMOSITY TOWARD THE ARTS, MUSIC AND CHESS
The entire universe is a product of God’s art. God manifests His art and power in the movements of the earth, in the rain, in the twittering of a bird and in the color of a violet, in a piece…
EATING ACCORDING TO THE QURAN AND ACCORDING TO SECTS
The food prohibited to consume is explicitly indicated in the Quran. 115 – He only prohibits for you dead animals, blood, the meat of pigs and that which is dedicated to other than God. But if one is driven by…
SO-CALLED APOCALYPTIC SIGNS: SECOND COMING, MAHDIS
MAHDI AND THE ANTICHRIST It is believed that this figure is about to appear near the end of the world to wipe out the enemies and become the Lord of the world and to later join Christ to defeat the…
WOMEN IN THE QURAN AND IN THE FABRICATED RELIGION
The issue about women has had the most additions to the established religion. Women were lowered to the level of a slave, of a servant employed in household affairs and a sex instrument at the disposal of her husband, justified…
THE QURAN: A BOOK OF INCANTATIONS?
Despite the fact that there is no mention either in the sects or in the hadiths, we shall try to show the superstitions, believed by ignorant people to form a part of the religion and exploited by bigots and opportunist…
MARIFATNAME, AN EXEMPLARY BOOK,PROTOTYPE OF LUDICROUS SCHOLARSHIP!
The book, edited and published by Bedir Publishing House with a laudatory introduction about its author, Erzurumlu Ibrahim Hakký, is an example of work produced by an abysmally ignorant and biased author, greatly acclaimed by many as being the scholar…
RAJM: STONING TO DEATH
Sectarian Islam tried to revoke the Quranic verses and added something alien to the Quran: namely stoning to death. What is still more terrifying was the allegation of traditionalists who argued that there was a missing link in the Quran…
