Anil (former Muslim)
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Testimony of Leaving Islam
I was born, on 26 June 1984, as a child of Muslim parents. I was a lucky child, as neither of my parents were extremely religious. I wasn't brought up in a religious way. The only things I heard from them for the name of religion was nonsense made up by older people. Contrary to my parents, I was religious. I was considered as an example in my community. When I was a teenager, I read a bit of the Quran and started to ask questions about whether it could be a lie; that Islam was the best religion in the universe. There were logical mistakes (I know those two- logical and mistake- don't go together well, but I will explain why I use the two together) between the Quran and comments that were made by theologists.
One of the logical mistakes was about angels. According to theologists, angels are supernatural beings which have been created by God to serve him. They are naive and do not know anything except praising God all the time. So, one cannot expect them to make assumptions as they aren't capable of it. Interestingly, you will read in the Quran that when God tells them he will create a new type of being, and the angels ask him objectingly: "Will you create a new type of being which will create problems and shed blood in the world?" Isn't this an assumption? How can they do it as they are unable to do it?
Secondly, Islam has a sick understanding of destiny. According to Islam, all the events one will experience through their lives are written on their foreheads before they are born. Several questions arise:
- If all the events I will experience have been decided beforehand, why will Allah judge me after I have passed away? He already knows what I have done, even before my birth; does he need a kind of amusement?
- Why do we label someone as being good and another one as evil? Their lives have been decided already by Allah. Why don't we judge the script writer instead of those people?
- Why do I have to be killed if I do fornicate, kill someone, have homosexual sex? The invisible script writer has given me those roles!
- Why do I have to worship that script writer if he gives me a difficult role called misery? Do I thank someone who deliberately does harm to me? No, I don't. What is so special about that invisible being?
Because of that sick understanding, you don't see any Islamic country go further in science and humanities. They don't act or speak out against their governors, because they think God will reward them in the other world.
The third point which get me to have lost my faith was the lie of everyone's being equal in Islam. If everyone is equal, why do only women have to cover their faces and stay at home bringing up children? Why can a single man get rid of being killed by the stone after his first adultery, but a woman cannot? Why is a man enough to be a witness but there is a need of two women as witnesses? Why do women get less estate from her father while men gets more? Why cannot women go to the mosque?
These are a few reasons why I have lost my faith in Islam.
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