HOLY ISLAM -- HOLY ILLITERACY, HOLY POVERTY,
HOLY BACKWARDNESS
By, Sujit Das
[A note to the readers: The olden unsolved ‘Chicken or the egg’ riddle does not bother me anymore
because very recently another similar type of doubt rose within me.
We all know...
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HOLY ISLAM -- HOLY ILLITERACY, HOLY POVERTY,
HOLY BACKWARDNESS
By, Sujit Das
[A note to the readers: The olden unsolved ‘Chicken or the egg’ riddle does not bother me anymore
because very recently another similar type of doubt rose within me.
We all know that ignorance,
poverty and backwardness are the holy heritage of Islam.
But, which came first? Are Muslims poor
because they are ignorant and backwards; or ignorant because they are poor and backwards; or
backwards because they are ignorant and poor? The billion dollar question is; which came first –
Muslim’s ignorance or Muslim’s poverty or Muslim’s backwardness?
I have spent enough sleepless night to solve this puzzle but in vain.
I leave it to the readers to make
inquiries and to come to a logical conclusion.
Thank you.
]
In Islam, pure illiteracy is divine.
The uneducated prophet of Islam called himself “a guardian of the
illiterates sent by Allah” (Bukhari, 3:34:335).
Another hadith (Sunaan Ibn Majah V:4290) reveals that
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