THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC

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                                 THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC. 

                               TAKE HEED, O YE DISBELIEVERS!

                                LESSON FROM THE SINGKING OF THE “UNSINKABLE” TITANIC

                                                                   By:  Kassim Ahmad

                                                                      28 August, 2017

                                                    darul_hikmah333@yahoo.com.my

 

   The famous ship, The Titanic (what a name!) made by Great Britain in 1912. Its owners and caption boasted that even God cannot sink it. To prove their faith in the “unsinkable” Titanic the owners purposely did not provide enough life-boats in case it does sink.

  On that fateful day, it left the Port Southampton and half an hour later it hit  an iceberg and sank! All crew and passengers were killed, except a few to tell the tale.

    It was a case of instantaneous punishment by God in modern times. The Quran narrates tales of punishments by God of many ancient communities who rebelled against God and His messengers --  the peoples of Noah, Hud and many others. Yet do human beings take heed?

   When God told the angels He was going to create a vicegerent (khalifah) to rule the Earth, the angels protested, saying that they will make corruption and shed blood. Human beings have surely shed blood in two bloody world wars. God forbid that a Third World War fought with nuclear arms take place! It would be the Human Community’s suicide. Taking examples from God’s punishments of ancient peoples, the Human Family will persist, as long as God wills. We have added the conditionality because Life is God’s trail and teaching for the Human Family.

   Look at the vast, the very, very vast universe that He has created. Why? He wants to tell the disbelievers if they can do the same. Obviously they cannot. So submit, willingly or unwillingly.  The universe has existed many million years ago and can go on for many more millions of years. God is Energy-in-Chief, intelligent Energy-in-Chief, that is.

   The Quran states that finally when universal energy is exhausted, the universe would collapse upon itself, leaving God’s Countenance. What is God’s Countenance? Can anyone imagine the simultaneous creation of the universe and God’s Being? What is Time? What is Space? God fills all Time and all Space.

   Why does God create the universe and the human family when all will be finally destroyed?

   We began this essay with the lesson of the sinking of the “unsinkable” Titanic. It is not for human beings, however great they are,  to boast. Only God is great. We will conclude with the thought that God is a mistery and His ways are misterious. But not irrational. The world is Supra-rasional. It is Higher Reason. The Uncaused Cause. God is the Uncaused Cause. He stands by Himself. He is Intelligent Power-Chief to Whom all contingent beings must submit. 

 The error made by the owners of The Titanic to be a fatal error.

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KASSIM AHMAD is a Malaysian author. His website is >www.kassimahmad.blogspot.com

VISION OF A LIBERATED WORLD

                                  
                                 VISION OF A LIBERATED WORLD

                                                      By: Kassim Ahmad

                                                      7^th September, 2017

                                          darul_hikmah333@yahoo.com.my

   As I waved my hand bidding goodby to my parents, uncles and aunties very many years ago on the train platform in Alor Setar, I distinctly saw on my venerable mother’s face (who did not understand why I had to go so far) as if she was saying I would do something great. For the most part of my adult life, I am conscious of a mission, although at times I was mad enough to want to be poor!

   In the Malayan University in Singapore, I joined the leftist socialist club and later joined the people’ party of Ahmad Boestamam, and quickly became its leader for 18 years! Somehow or other I did not feel real about the power and success of socialism. It was simply to identify myself with the poor to whom I belong.

   I was therefore critical of things I inherited from my ancestors. The first scholar I critisied was Imam Shafi’e for his TWO PRINCIPAL SOURCES (Quran and Hadis). The book  Hadis - Satu Peniliai Semula in 1986  became the topic of discussion for two months, half opposed and half supporting me. After two months it was banned.

   The book was soon translated into English and Arabic, resulting in several Muslim authorities (Turkey, Saudi’s Fahd and Indian Muslim scholar in UIA) following suit.   

    I did not look back after this, strictly following the Quran and all other teachings must go to the criticism of the Quran. My critical view of the Hadis brought people from all over Malaysia to visit me and hear from my own lips in 2014. Truth to tell, all of them without exception agreed with me.

   However, the religious authorities did not like it. They arrested me for “dishonoring Islam” (Malay: “Menghina Islam”). I was cleared in both civil and syari'ah courts at the highest levels. God be praised!

   Coming to my vision of a liberated world, I am sure that it can be realized. Firstly, it is in accord with the teachings of the Quran, God’s final scripture, the only scripture that is protected by God. A vision based on this scripture must of necessity be realized.  

  

KASSIM AHMAD  is a Malaysian author. His website is https://kassimahmad.blogspot.my/