QURAN
RECITAL AND HYPOCRACY AT ITS BEST
By: Kassim Ahmad
7 April, 2017
It
is now the season of Quranic recital in our beloved country of Master Jurist
Imam Shafi’e’s TWO PRICIPAL SOURCES (Quran
and Hadith). One god, it seems, is not enough. The reciter one after another is
declaring his or her (with her hair properly covered up) devotion to the Quran!
It seems they could not care less if they practice what they say. Its is
hypocracy at its best or highest!
I sat listening with sorrow. I am so angry at this clever-clever ignorance that I wanted
to challenge them to a debate. This I will surely do one day. That day will be
soon, God-willing.
One of my grand-daughters were staying with
us. She is a first-year student in one of our many universities and having a
two-week vacation. So I engaged her with some intellectual conversation. My
questions were: (1) Why are Muslim nations now at far down the ladders of
nations, when they were once at the top? (2) Why are they singing the Quran? Is
the Quran a song book?
Of course she knows the answers. I have
briefed them all on all these matters, and more. She also knows that I will challenge
the ulama, the non-existent priesthood of latter-day changed sectarian Islam.
I am old, going to be 84 on September this
year. But I am young in spirit, brimming with ideas. My wife sometimes chided me
for doing nothing. When I am doing “nothing”, I am actually writing a new
article in my head. I develyoped my liking for essay writing in my secondary
school. At a young age I wrote for newspapers and magazines, and even debated
on philosophical subjects. I have
written many books. I sometimes joked with my friends that had I lived in
Europe, my book royalties would have made me a millionaire.
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KASSIM
AHMAD is a Malaysia author. His website is
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