If you are a conservative religious thinker, i suggest you don't read this blog entry of mine because you will attack me like a vulture and start accusing me of backstabbing my religion or attacked me by saying i don't have sufficient religious knowledge and thus i should keep my mouth shut.
Sure i don't act like or practice religious stuff as what i'm suppose to but i have faith in my religion and i believe in my religion. So when people attack my religion, i do get upset. Or when i think someone misinterpret the religion, i will say a thing or two. My argument is based on LOGIC and rational thinking. Religion is not all about miracles and supernatural stuff.
Like in any religion, Islam has been divided into sects. According to the Quran, people shouldn't be doing this. Islam is divided into sects because of HUMAN doings. You have shiah and suni and then u have the different "mazhabs". For shiah and suni, one of them is more conservative than the other. They still believe in one God but deviate in certain parts. The problem with religions is that it is PRONE to human intervention and alteration.
Then you have the Quran and the hadith. The Quran is the final and complete book. It is the words and commandments on God. Nobody can alter it. That's how powerful the Quran is. Hadith on the other hand means "a traditional account of things said or done by Muhammad or his companions". Basically they are things said by those who are close to the Prophet, describing Prophet's way of living, the good and exemplary things to be followed because Prophet Muhammad did it during his life time.
Every Muslims should and will believe in the Quran. But there are some Muslims who don't follow the hadith because some hadith are not genuine. Not only they are not genuine but some sounds illogical and contradictory. Some are even contradicting with the Quran. Of course if it contradicts the Quran, the Quran will override it.
Anyway, what i wanted to point out here is that some religious people who give lectures on religion don't use their brain to think when they talk.
Today, while in the car on the way back, the radio was playing some kind of religious lecture. I didn't like the lecture at all because i find his arguments are not strong. He was talking about how a wife should respect the husband, the fact that it's easier for them to enter HELL or HEAVEN compare to men. Then he talked about pregnant women and something about JINN. He was saying about how a woman can be sweet for one second to her husband, and then become very rude the next second. He says it's because she's being possessed by Jinn... yeah, blamed it on the Jinn instead of the the unbalanced hormones that causes emotional distress in women.
I know wife should respect the husband and it takes a lot of effort to respect a husband who doesn't respect you but you still have to respect and take all of his shit for the sake of following what your religion tells and for the sake of being rewarded entrance to heaven after so much patience and tolerance. That i can accept.
But what i can't accept is that he says that we yawn because there's JINN inside us. What kind of bullshit is that? He goes on to say that that's why Prophet Muhammad NEVER YAWNS and that a fly never land on him. Oh, i guess they already have a 24/7 surveillance camera at that time and thus that's why they know he never yawn a single time through out his entire life.
Sure, when i google up articles on yawning, there's no clear answer why we yawn. It's the human body mechanism, "Scientists do not purport to know all of the biological mechanisms of the yawn, but tend to agree that a yawn is an involuntary respiratory reflex, which regulates the carbon dioxide and oxygen levels in the blood"..
However, have you forgotten that animals yawn too? Are they possessed my jinn then? Babies yawn a lot, so these innocent beings are possessed by jinns too?
So see my logical explanation? I wonder where did that guy get the so called info that the prophet never yawn and if you yawn means there's jinn inside you. Hadith? I'm pretty sure the Quran never mention this. It's things like this that undermines the genuineness of hadith.
The real consensus on yawning was because it was dusty during the time of the Prophet. Also because yawning feels so damn good. Haha. I have to admit it is. They wanted the people to avoid dust, so they create this as a moral story.
ReplyDeleteAnother that you can ponder is nose picking during fasting. I'll let you figure that out. :p
heheh i like ur comment. humans are good at making up stories. and humans are good at following things blindly..
ReplyDeletei don't know about nose picking but i just think that it's rude and dirty to pick ur nose in the public. but if u r alone, why can't u pick ur nose? or does nose picking also amounts to "memasukkan sesuatu dlm rongga badan"???
Hadith should be viewed in many ways. Some are stories, and some are real. there may be fakes, but understanding the story matters most. Which is why the problem is that we just follow it blindly, as you said.
ReplyDeleteit is rude and dirty. There's no reason to say you can't do it when you're alone. I can't give you a real answer, but I can tell you that it is in tune with another moral and a disciplinary issue, which works actually. But hey, you're logical enough to know the answer. :P