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The Cursed Religion of ISIS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface:_______________________________________________________________ 2

When We Have Written on ISIS before its Emergence: The ISIS-like Group in the Abbasid Era______________________________________________________ 6

More Than One Hundred Thousand Deities Are Being Worshipped by the ISIS -like Clergymen of Al-Azhar_________________________________________ 11_________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________

A Joke to Burst out Laughing: The KSA Is Leading an Anti-ISIS Coalition_ 16

John Rossomando Asked And I Answered (Through Emails)_____________ 22

The Cursed Religion of ISIS________________________________________ 25

PART I________________________________________________________________ 27

Chapter One: Make It a Motto: ISIS Members Are Infidels and Rascals 27

Chapter Two: Speaking of ISIS and Hamas Movement  ___________________ 33

Chapter Three: Al-Qaradawi Is the Spiritual Imam of ISIS Members ________ 43

PART II                                           _________________________________________ 51

Chapter One: Zeinab, A Donkey, and ISIS _____________________________ 51

Chapter Two: More than One Hundred Thousand Deities are Worshipped by

The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar ______________________________________ 61

Chapter Three: The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar and Confusion_____________ 67

Chapter Four: Calling The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar to Repent ___________ 92

PART III: ____________________________________________________________ 101

Chapter One:

In Hope of Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azha _________________ 101

The Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and The ISIS Members of

Al-Azhar _______________________________________________________ 112

Chapter Two:___________________________________________________ 118

A TV Show to Face ISIS Sheikhs ____________________________________ 118

A Notification Addressed to Free People in Egypt to Get Rid of The ISIS Sheikhs

Who Control Al-Azhar ____________________________________________ 123

A Call for Creating Websites to Expose The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar: Stories

of Some of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar_____________________________ 127

CONCLUSION________________________________________________________ 138

Preface

Preface

This book - as all writings – is addressing the Muslim mentality, to reform them from within the religion of Islam. We apologize – in advance for our maimed English language. Most of articles were written in Arabic then translated into English by the Egyptian scholar Ahmed Fathy.

Those articles about Isis were as series of articles between June and September 2014, in time when there was a hope in the Egyptian president Al Sisi. There were other articles were published after that. We invite you to read thembefore reading this book:

The Egyptian president Al Sisi and the Religion of ISIS

I wrote in Arabic many articles attacking ISIS and its Wahabi Sunny religion, proving that Al Azhar is keeping this religion of ISIS, defending it, using its influence in persecuting us because we prove the contradiction between Wahabism and the religion of Islam. I called the fanatic leaders of Al Azhar (The Sheikh of ISIS). I made these articles one book published in our site in Arabic under the title: (The doomed religion of ISIS).

I kept sending call of reform to the Egyptian president (Al Sisi) through my Arabic article. The last one was published on Sunday, January 4, 2015 under the title :(On President Al-Sisi’s call for a religious revolution)

I said: (We People of Quran have started the religious revolution since 1979 to date.

Making the religious revolution a reality cannot happen without Ahl-AlQuran.

1.    President Al-Sisi’s confronted Al-Azhar’s religious leaders with a notable call for religious revolution during the annual celebration of on Prophet Mohamed’s birth. His direct call, in front of the media, echoes earlier calls for religious reforms which Al-Azhar responded to by insisting not to attack ISIS.

2.    Also notable in President’s Al-Sisi’s address is his religious tone of believing in responsibility in front of Allah on Judgment Day. In his recent address he used the same tone and said he will be their litigant in front of Allah on Judgment Day.

To that, I say:

3.    God Almighty does not burden any soul beyond its capacity. Did the President, with all the powers he has, do his capacity to reform religious thought? How would Al-Sisi defend himself on Judgment Day before Allah, for not doing what he could have done?  

4.    We are talking here about what is possible to be done in reforming Al-Azhar and religious discourse. We have written here about this lot, and sent him messages on it. It is clear that he knows the writer of this article and has quoted him in a research paper that he wrote while he was a graduate military student in America. Also, no one who has worked in the intelligence could claim not knowing about the Quranists and their struggle and suffering. They have been monitored by state agencies during four waves of arrests and they continue to be banned from appearing on Egyptian media. However, they represent the true thought that could be that very same religious revolution Al-Sisi has called for. Discriminate against, persecuting, and ignoring Ahl-Alquran and their reformist writings, under President Al-Sisi rule, is a great contradiction for his call for religious reform.).

5.    I also said : ( President Al-Sisi, the most powerful man in Egypt now, so far has not done his best or what he could to renew and develop the religious discourse and to express the highest values of Islam; which are peace, justice, freedom, compassion and human dignity. He could still have the chance of doing it, if he does the following:

a.     Lifting the ban on people of Ahl-Alquran, the publication of their books, which represent a real religious revolution, and paving the way for them to participate in peaceful religious reform.

b.    Abolishing laws that shackle freedom of thought, opinion and peaceful assembly, and giving amnesty to political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.

c.     Isolating Al-Azhar religious leaders and the rest of ISIS religious leaders. They are worthy of being sacked, according to the law of Al-Azhar, because they refuse to renew religious thought and deny the Islamic values of freedom, peace, justice and mercy. They also show an attitude that lessens their stature as Al-Azhar scholars.

d.    Appointing reformist professors at Al-Azhar University to replace those who support ISIS and forming a specialized committee to reform the law of Al-Azhar and its curriculum. We have a whole proposal on this that we featured more than once.)

Finally:

Al-Sisi is keeping the same ugly state of Mubarak. It is the same military, police, state with its corruption and its ugly legislations.

In response to a new religious reformist awakening, and in an attempt to dismantle Muslim Brotherhood, he is playing with words in the field of religious reform while keeping the same corrupted sheiks in their rank. He talks about reform in a gradual way while it is a must to make real reform immediately.

Let us wait until the middle of this year to see the real answer. 


 

When We Have Written on ISIS before its Emergence: The ISIS-like Group in the Abbasid Era

First publishedin Arabic on January 8, 2016

Introduction:

We have published on our website on Dec. 13th 2010 an article titled "And Shadee Is Lost", and here, we re-publish it followed by a commentary, while we live in the era of ISIS terrorists. Firstly, here's the article we have written.

Firstly:

1- Since the civil wars of Arabs, after the death of Prophet Muhammad, in the Arabian Peninsula and the assassination of the caliph Othman, early Muhammadans witnessed numerous civil wars and internecine strife under several banners and mottoes; even until recently: the Lebanese civil wars and their horrors are expressed by the song of Fayrouz, the Lebanese diva, titled "Shadee" to portrait the violated innocence and childhood. Other horrid wars are the ones in Iraq that iterated the civil wars of caliph Ali Ibn Abou Talib and the Umayyads.

2- In fact, the very first victims of civil strife are the youth deceived by mottoes and banners. They turn themselves from future hope into time bombs that will explode to destroy the present and the future.

3- We have witnessed such type of delusional youth, and we try using Quranism and the Quran to dispel such illusions and deceit. We have tried to make such youth wake up and get realistic. We have tried to raise the awareness that Islam is really a religion of peace and that faith is linked to feeling safe and preserving security. We have explained how that the worst crime, second only to unbelief, is to shed blood of the innocent using lies and falsehoods ascribed by force to God and His seal of prophets.

4- In general, ancient historians do not tend to record anything but stories of heroes and war & peace leaders. It is on very rare occasions that a historian cares to register a story of an ordinary youth or an ordinary woman in times of ordeals and civil strife.

5- The famous ancient historian, Al-Tabari, is known for his care for registering general events that do not heed ordinary folks; yet, he wrote a story of an ordinary woman in the context of his historical accounts of the Qarmatians wars tragedy.

6- The Qarmatians wars began in 286 A.H., and Al-Tabari was alive at the time, recording the events as an eye-witness. He recorded the killing of the leader of the Qarmatians wars, Abou Saeed Al-Junabee, in Bahrain in 301 A.H. and later on, Al-Tabari stopped writing the historical accounts in 302 A.H. and died in 310 A.H., but the Qarmatians wars went on in Arabia, Iraq, and the Levant until 378 A.H. Later on, the Qarmatians turned into just bloody lines in the history of Arabs to make us draw lessons, to which we never pay heed enough.  

7- Al-Tabari wrote in his account the events of 290 A.H. that a leader of the Qarmatians, named Al-Hussein Ibn Zakarwey, killed whole population in several cities in the Levant, sparing no children, women, and old men, and even all animals! Other victims of this leader were the delusional youth who were deceived by him to join him in battles and in what they deemed falsely to be Islam; he turned them into ruthless murderers who killed their own folks deemed as renegades and apostates who forsook Islam!  

8- The ancient historian, Al-Nuweiri, mentioned that Abou Saeed Al-Junabee the leader of the Qarmatians used to collect the youth in camps to be taught martial arts and blind obedience to the Qarmatians. They were subjected to being tattooed in the face, using fire. The youth used to get out of this horrible experience after they were trained to be ruthless murderers.

9- Al-Tabari wrote this realistic story that took place during the Qarmatians wars, about an ordinary woman who entered their camps looking for her son who joined the Qarmatians and deserted his mother and sisters.

10- This is probably the only realistic story written by Al-Tabari from the streets, and its heroine is an ordinary woman among the ordinary folks. Yet, a reader will feel as if this story has occurred recently.

 Secondly:

Al-Tabari narrates that a woman went to a medical doctor in order to dress a bleeding wound in her shoulder, while she was weeping and in distress. The doctor asked her about her calamity and she told him her story: "My son deserted me and my daughters without a caretaker. Penniless, I begged in the streets. I longed to see my son, and I travelled to Al-Mosul in search for him. I spotted a camp of the Qarmatians, and I loitered around it. I suddenly saw my son and flung myself at him. He recognized me and asked about his sisters. I complained to him about our poverty after his departure. He took me to his house, and asked me about my creed. I told him that his question is strange, since he knew me and knew my creed. He told me that my creed is false; Islam is what he is doing now with the Qarmatians! I felt afraid of him. He sensed that, and left me to return later on with bread and meat for me to cook. He went out. I did not cook anything. He returned later on and cooked the meat himself. Later on, a man of the Qarmatians came in asking for a woman to help another woman in labor. I went with the man. I helped a woman in pain to give birth to her male child. The man told me not to talk to her. I felt compelled to know her story. She told it to me: she was a Hashemite woman whose relatives and family were all killed by the Qarmatians. She was taken into slavery for a few days in the house of one Qarmatian leader. They were bent on killing her, but later on, spared her life to be given to a man of the Qarmatians. Four men were about to quarrel by the sword to have her. The leader insisted that the four of them would have her in bed. She did not know who, amongst the four of these men, the father of her child was! Each man was congratulated as the father! Each gave me a bar of silver as a gift. I complained to the woman I helped and asked for a way out of the camp to get back to my daughters. She advised me to ask the leader's help. I kissed his hands and feet to allow me to return to my daughters. The leader wanted more women for his men to satisfy their carnal lusts and appetites. He made a group of soldiers to accompany me to get my daughters. My son raised the sword in anger and said to me that I am a bawdy pimp whose aim was to bring my daughters here. He tried to stab me, but the soldiers held him. I was injured in my shoulder. The soldiers took my son and left me alone. Later on, I struggled to walk to you to heal me." This doctor asserted to Al-Tabari that she went out of his house and never returned after she was healed. She probably died out of this wound. She lives on with her tragedy in the historical accounts of Al-Tabari. Millions of innocent ones were killed unjustly and in aggression in the way to apply the laws of the earthly man-made fabricated creeds of the Muhammadans and the Christians and the Jews.). That is the end of our 2010 article.

 Lastly: our commentary:

1- The Abbasid era Qarmatians had similar traits and features of the ISIS terrorist group now. Both the Qarmatians and ISIS seem to be twins. ISIS men are now in Iraq, especially Al-Mosul city, like the Qarmatians. Both terrorist groups slaughtered the innocent, enslave and rape women, and manage to recruit the youth using propaganda. Both groups claim that by their crimes, they apply 'true' Islam! They reject all forms of Islam that oppose them as 'unbelief'. Both groups led the young men kill their folks, as they were, in their erroneous views, apostates who do not deserve to live. Both the Qarmatians and ISIS groups emerged in an era when the extremist doctrine of Ibn Hanbal spread and controlled the streets. The extremist Sunnites who followed the doctrine of Ibn Hanbal sieged the house of Al-Tabari, the Sunnite historian and scholar, until his death at his old age. After his death, they demolished his house on his corpse, forbidding anyone to give him a proper burial. This was done because he opposed their views in describing God in His throne. Al-Tabari used to fear both the Qarmatians and the extremist Sunnites who followed the extremist doctrine of Ibn Hanbal. He tried to summarize his historical accounts before his death. The last thing he wrote while his house was surrounded by soldiers was a letter to ask for a pardon for himself. ISIS belongs to the Wahabi creed; Wahabism is the offspring of Ibn Hanbal doctrine. Both the Qarmatians and ISIS groups are rooted in Najd area in northern Arabia, and both emerged in conditions of tyranny and corruption in the Middle East. It is of minor importance that ISIS is Sunnite and the Qarmatians were Shiite. Both groups kill everybody. Even the Qarmatians used to kill Shiites who do not obey them; likewise, ISIS terrorists kill Sunnites savagely. The only difference between the Qarmatians and ISIS is the type of weapons and arms used, and some names and mottoes, as well as the interference of regional and international powers.

2- The similarity between ISIS and the Qarmatians assert the tragedy; the Muhammadans (Shiites and Sunnites) of today are still living and reliving the past and battle with one another. Both are criminals and victims simultaneously. Why is this happening until today? Why the Muhammadans cannot join the caravan of civilization and modernity? Why are they using the tools of civilization to destroy and kill? Why are they re-creating the scenes of history of the Second Abbasid Era, with its backwardness, civil strife, and cowardice toward the foreign invaders?

The answer lies in one word: the KSA. The KSA Wahabism is the axis of evil and terrorism that prevented the Muhammadans from democratic change and adherence to real Islamic values like political freedom and complete liberty in matters of faith and creed, as well as justice, tolerance, and human dignity.

3- The Second Abbasid Era ended in the Moghuls' invasion of Baghdad and putting an end to the Abbasid Dynasty and caliphate: total destruction. Would ISIS end after the whole region would have been destroyed with American-Russian interference?!

4- This is what we are afraid of and warn against. Our warnings reiterated for years, and our predictions have taken place on many occasions within the last 30 years. We are shouting and find no reaction or response from anyone. Yet, we will never despair. We will go on calling for reform on all levels until our last breath. We offer at least our excuses to the coming generations.  


 

More Than One Hundred Thousand Deities Are Being Worshipped by the ISIS-like Clergymen of Al-Azhar

First publishedin Arabic on August, 27, 2014

Firstly: the deification of the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions within the ISIS Wahabi Ibn Hanbal Sunnite creed:

1- In 'holy' tomes and ancient volumes of the Sunnite creed, we read that the number of the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions is one hundred thousand persons. A companion by their definition is a contemporary person who saw Prophet Muhammad. That is why the Sunnites consider the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions the primary source of the Sunnite creed. The so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions are the ones to whom the so-called hadith are ascribed to have been narrated by them in oral traditions: (so and so narrated from so and so from that companion who narrated that he heard Prophet Muhammad saying that…etc.). In later eras, clergymen and imams used to scrutinize and examine the narrators' series so as to verify the so-called veracity and authenticity of hadiths (sayings); yet, all clergymen and imams claim that all the so-called companions can never commit errors in narration! This is deification of the so-called companions. God is the Only One who never errs. Even prophets, the best people, as per Quranic verses, have done mistakes and errors of judgment, and some of such mistakes mentioned in the Quran. Accordingly, the Sunnites make the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions above in stature in comparison to God's prophets! Those companions are now deified; they are being invoked and worshipped as deities! If it is true that their number exceeds 100.000 persons, to which we add the countless imams, sheikhs, and clergymen of the Sunnite creed as well as the founders of doctrines and the fabricators/narrators of the so-called hadiths, such as the famous ones/gods like Malik, Al-Shafei', Al-Bokhari, Moslem, Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn Al-Qaiyyim…until Ibn Abdel-Wahab in the 18th century.

2- All of the above is affirmed by the Cairo-based Azhar institution and its ISIS-like sheikhs and clergymen; all of them declare as renegades, apostates, and unbelievers anyone who dares to criticize the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions, because they are treated as unerring and infallible gods. If criticized, the critic is a one who has forsaken the Sunnite creed. This is reflected in all oral and written statements of ISIS-like Azharite clergymen and sheikhs. All of them are used to issuing statements to threaten and terrorize anyone who dares to criticize/attack the so-called companions. This is an undeniable fact; no Azharite scholar can deny the existence of such terror and threatening measures in writing. By deification of more than one hundred thousands of persons, ISIS-like Azharite clergymen deny the Quran: God's word. The reason: the Quran mentions in tens of verses the fact that some of the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions were hypocrites who used to lie and cheat; the Quran promises them of residing eternally in Hell.

3- This fact cannot bear any sort of compromise or a middle position; one has either to believe in God and His divine message or in falsehood books written by human beings. The Quran includes the fact that the so-called companions are mere mortals, that some of them were good and others have mixed good deeds and bad deeds, and that some of them were traitors, liars, and hypocrites. Would a believer believe the Quran or the lie that the the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions are all guiltless, unerring, and infallible.

4- ISIS-like Azharite clergymen, sheikhs, and imams cannot deny history; civil strife battles ensued among the so-called companions after the assassination of the caliph Othman. ISIS-like Azharite clergymen follow now the footsteps of these forefathers and founding fathers in their way of ignoring such civil wars in the scholars' curricula in Al-Azhar institution and in Egyptian media. Due to this deliberate ignoring, Muslims are still living in the quagmire of civil strife today. This is occurring now in Syria and Iraq by ISIS terrorists. This is a continuation of the civil strife that began about 14 centuries ago. Ignoring the civil strife wars and battles among the so-called companions is due to their being deified after death and the Azharite stance or insistence of their being infallible, unerring, and faultless; to hell with historical accounts, then! It is funny that imams of the Sunnite creed have fabricated certain hadiths in order to prevent tackling and researching the civil strife historical accounts, such as the hadiths that describe the so-called companions as residing in Paradise immediately after death and their being guiding poles and examples in daily lives of all Muslims, etc. in contract to the Quranic verses that prove that Prophet Muhammad can never predict the future. In fact, Sunnites are still in the quagmire of civil strife for the last 14 centuries by following the footsteps of the co-called companions. The hadiths fabricated by them are all based on lying and contradictions. Examples of this are countless; how come all the co-called companions are in Paradise while there is a hadith that states that if two Muslims fight each other with swords, the killer and the killed are both in Hell?! This so-called hadith makes all of the so-called companions residing forever in Hell.

4- If you tell the Azharite clergymen these plain facts, they have one response; they would declare you an apostate who has forsaken Islam! They will apply to you their law that punishes in prison whoever taunts or mocks their creed: the ISIS-like Sunnite Wahabi Ibn Hanbal creed that is not linked at all to Islam.

Secondly: A Quranic view on the so-called companions:

 We have already published countless articles on the so-called companions, to which we refer the readers. Here, suffice it for us to state the following points.

1- in 4:105-113 and 8:27, the Quran describes some of the so-called companions as traitors and hypocrites. They have misled Prophet Muhammad in making him defend a criminal; then the Quran warns those who conspire against God and His messenger.

2- Tens of Quranic verses tell us about hypocrites among the so-called companions, especially in chapters that have descended in Yathreb. Contemplating these chapters, we discern two types of hypocrites: one type that had exposed themselves with stances and words. Verses of the Quran have exposed them. The other type is those who concealed so carefully their animosity and hatred toward Islam and never betrayed their true colors in words or actions. They have pretended to be believers and got nearer to the Prophet Muhammad. Verses of the Quran have exposed them as well. Once Muhammad died, divine revelation stopped, and this second type became relentless in showing enmity and conspired against Islam. This type of hypocrites are warned and admonished in the Quran by torment in this life and in the Afterlife: "Among the Desert-Arabs around you there are some hypocrites, and among the inhabitants of Medina too. They have become adamant in hypocrisy. You do not know them, but We know them. We will punish them twice; then they will be returned to a severe torment." (9:101). This verse implies that some of the so-called companions will die as unbelievers and hypocrites and will be punished inevitably in this world and the next.

3- Hypocrites of the time are described along with their feelings and actions in trying to deceive God in 2:8-15, and that their ill-will is a disease inside their hearts that manifests itself during battles and on several occasions; please refer to 8:49, 33:12-61, 47:20-29, and 9:125.

4- Hypocritical companions used to swear by God to defend their stances: "They took their oaths as a screen, and prevented others from God's path. They will have a shameful punishment. " (58:16) and "They treat their oaths as a cover, and so they repel others from God's path. Evil is what they do." (63:2). Some of the hypocrites used to pretend to obey Muhammad, and then used lie to him: "They profess obedience, but when they leave your presence, some of them conspire something contrary to what you said. But God writes down what they conspire. So avoid them, and put your trust in God. God is Guardian enough." (4:81). Hence, lying in the name of God and the name of Muhammad started earlier during Muhammad's lifetime and went on for the last 14 centuries until now. God describes such hypocrites as inveterate liars who aim at self-destruction: "Had the gain been immediate, and the journey shorter, they would have followed you; but the distance seemed too long for them. Still they swear by God: "Had we been able, we would have marched out with you." They damn their own souls, and God knows that they are lying.May God pardon you! Why did you give them permission before it became clear to you who are the truthful ones and who are the liars?" (9:42-43).

5- Those hypocritical liars used to find those who believe their falsehoods and lies as true statements. This is exemplified in the story told in the following verses: "Those who perpetrated the slander are a band of you. Do not consider it bad for you, but it is good for you. Each person among them bears his share in the sin. As for him who played the major role-for him is a terrible punishment. Why, when you heard about it, the believing men and women did not think well of one another, and say, "This is an obvious lie"?" (24:11-12) and "When you rumored it with your tongues, and spoke with your mouths what you had no knowledge of, and you considered it trivial; but according to God, it is serious. When you heard it, you should have said, "It is not for us to repeat this. By Your glory, this is a serious slander." God cautions you never to return to the like of it, if you are believers. "(24:15-17). Hypocrites in their conspiracies and slanders used to find attentive listeners among the believers: "Had they mobilized with you, they would have added only to your difficulties, and they would have spread rumors in your midst, trying to sow discord among you. Some of you are avid listeners to them. God is Aware of the wrongdoers." (9:47).

6- The Quran repeats in many verses the notion that God is the Witness concerning the lies, falsehoods, and conspiracies of such hypocrites: "Then there are those who establish a mosque to cause harm, and disbelief, and disunity among the believers, and as an outpost for those who fight God and His Messenger. They will swear: "Our intentions are nothing but good." But God bears witness that they are liars." (9:107), "Have you not considered those who act hypocritically? They say to their brethren who disbelieved among the People of the Book, "If you are evicted, we will leave with you, and will not obey anyone against you; and should anyone fight you, we will certainly support you." But God bears witness that they are liars." (59:11), "When the hypocrites come to you, they say, "We bear witness that you are God's Messenger." God knows that you are His Messenger, and God bears witness that the hypocrites are liars." (63:1). ISIS-like Azharite clergymen insist upon refusing God's statements in the Quran by insisting that the so-called companions are unerring, faultless, guiltless, inviolable, and infallible. If one states the Quranic facts mentioned above in this article, one is accused by contempt of the Sunnite creed by the ISIS-like clergymen of Al-Azhar!

One last question:

When the Quran refutes and contradicts any notions inherited from Middle-Ages imams and clergymen, a real believer must side with the Quranic truth. In contrast to this, ISIS Azharite clergymen do the exact opposite by siding with inherited notions and doctrines and ignoring the Quran!

The best discourse:

 "It is a noble Quran. In a well-protected Book. None can grasp it except the purified. A revelation from the Lord of the Worlds. Is it this discourse that you take so lightly? And you make it your livelihood to deny it? "(56:77-82). God says nothing but the Truth, even if ISIS-like Azharite clergymen hate this Truth.          

A Joke to Burst out Laughing: The KSA Is Leading an Anti-ISIS Coalition

First publishedin Arabic in December 22, 2015

We have recently received the following question, to which we are replying in this article:

The Question:

 (…I am not a politically oriented person, and I am not a Quranist, but I do believe that you, Dr. A. S. Mansour is a high-stature scholar and reformer. From a humanistic point of view, I am against terrorism of course, but I am not defending the KSA in my message here. I disagree so much with the KSA in countless political points; it is an unjust, tyrannical monarchy. I do personally believe that the KSA is linked closely to Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists. Yet, I think that ISIS terrorist organization is an enemy of the KSA. I do not think that the KSA is supporting ISIS financially. I think that ISIS is a terror against the whole world. I do believe that it is a fine and positive thing that the KSA is about to fight ISIS. What do you personally think about this issue?)

 This is our reply:

Firstly: A Silly Joke:

1- It is a silly joke that the KSA is claiming to lead an international coalition against ISIS. The KSA has failed in its coalition and war against Yemen. The KSA tries to overcome this failure by another one by claiming to lead a coalition against ISIS.

Secondly: The KSA will certainly fail in its so-called anti-ISIS coalition for the following reasons:

1- The KSA royal family is actually on the brink of an abyss now; the current king, Salman, is said to be unconscious most of the time due to senility problems. His pampered eldest son, Muhammad Ibn Salman, is dominating the scene and tries to gain more power and authority and wealth. This man is nothing but a childish brat, in my opinion, who is trying to take airs and appear as if he were a shrewd military leader and political expert. He has neither talents nor previous experience at all in anything. His sheer occupation of a powerful position threatens the very existence of the KSA royal family. The grandsons of the founding king, Abdul-Aziz, are trying to gain more power in comparison to the generation of the royal sons of the same monarch. The KSA needs more wise leadership among such grandsons; the sons of King Feisal and Bandar Ibn Sultan have been marginalized so as m. Ibn Salman would become the de facto king instead of his father the current king, dominated and controlled by the son. This split and struggle among the family members reverberate now; there is no smoke without fire. The pampered son creates now the appearance of a more rigorous fanatic Wahabi policy and more confrontation against the Shiites. That is why the Yemen war broke out. In the same vein, the KSA has entered into a series of complicated international relations with countries without experience. All such measures are quite fruitless. M. Ibn Salman is a failure. The anti-ISIS coalition will certainly be another episode in this failure.

2- The KSA is too weak to wage a war against a real enemy. It has no real, functional armed forces. The Saudis have only mercenaries and naturalized citizens brought into the army from other countries as well as professional mercenaries hired from specialized companies. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he threatened the KSA. When terrorized by Saddam, the KSA enlisted the help of the USA. The huge amount of weapons and arms bought by the KSA has failed to be of use at the time. Such weapons have been bought by Sultan Ibn Abdul-Aziz by tens of billions of commissions and bribes. This is the biggest arsenal in the Third World countries that turned out to be a mere deal of embezzlement and bribery.

3- How come that you expect that the Saudi Wahabi soldier would dare to fight against the Wahabi ISIS member? Both are united the same creed to fight against Shiites, the ''fiercest'' enemies in their opinion.

4- Riyadh, the KSA capital, thinks that ISIS is not at all an enemy to the KSA. ISIS is the natural outcome of the Wahabi creed created and propagated by the KSA. I do believe that ISIS is the Saudi arm or pole that managed to achieve the biggest dream of the KSA: to destroy Iraq that tried to annihilate the KSA during the Saddam Hussein regime era. Saddam Hussein was a nightmare or rather a thorn in the side of all the Gulf monarchies especially the KSA. He used to embezzle money out of all the Gulf monarchies. This latent danger became overt and threatening when Kuwait was occupied in the 1990s. Saddam would have marched to Riyadh if it had not been for the American interference; American forces used to occupy a part of north-eastern KSA lands, south of Iraq. After getting rid of Saddam, Iraq has to be destroyed according to the wishes of the KSA; Iraq in their claims has to be subdivided into smaller states/countries so as not to pose a threat to the KSA in the future within the long Iraqi-Saudi borders. The KSA royal family aims at controlling the Sunnite part of Iraq, as a strategic goal. This has become important target after the rise of Iraqi Shiites in post-Saddam Iraq and after the threat that Iran poses to the KSA, within the game of power and alliances. The Shiites in Iraq have made alliances with Shiite Tehran, as we all know. Hence, ISIS is a subservient to the KSA in Iraq and Syria. ISIS is a pawn controlled by the KSA in Syria as well to fight against Bashar Al-Assad, who is a Shiite with alliances to Tehran as well. The KSA is interested in subdividing Syria to control its Sunnite part against the Shiites in the rest of Syria, loyal to Iran. Hence, it is in fact a Shiite-Sunnite struggle on an international level. The KSA cannot depend on Egypt; the terrorist MB rule of Egypt that lasted for one year has shown the terrorist MB members' tendency to cooperate with Iran. The KSA takes revenge on the terrorist MB group now. It is apparent that the Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, gives promises to the KSA that he intends never to keep. That is why the KSA has created ISIS and will try to orient itself to other countries.

5- ISIS grew more important to all regional and international forces at least so as to redistribute lands of Iraq and Syria. This subdivision into smaller states is a crucial aim to the KSA, Gulf monarchies, and Iran as well. Iran desires to see a Shiite state in Iraq with alliance to Tehran. Israel is another winner; it will have creed-based warring new countries surrounding it. The Shiite-Sunnite struggle is older and more deep-rooted than the Arab-Israeli struggle. Turkey is another winner; a part of Syria would be annexed to it to harbor the Turkmens. Russia is another winner; its alliance with Bashar Al-Assad is reinforcing its military presence in the Mediterranean Sea so as to have an influential role in the Middle East after the collapse of the USSR. Kurds of Iraq and Syria would realize their dream of an independent state of their own. Europe and the USA would rejoice at the Shiite-Sunnite split that will subdivide Iraqi and Syrian lands; ensuing wars would urge all parties to buy weapons and arms to face local creed-based battles. Arms market would grow and so is the oil market. Bashar Al-Assad would be happy to establish a state in eastern Syria under Russian protection. Hence, ISIS is beneficial to all such parties concerned; Iraqi Sunnite soldiers will not fight their brethren the ISIS Wahabi Sunnites for the sake of the Shiite Iraqi president in Baghdad. That is why Wahabi ISIS is so important to the Wahabi KSA; the KSA would never like to get rid of ISIS now.

Thirdly: ISIS poses no threat whatsoever to the KSA, why would the KSA fight it?!

1- Wahabism is the sole aid that maintains the rule of any tyrant ruler and to incite revolt against him at eh same time. Because Wahabism is an earthly man-made fabricated creed of armed war for the sake of any throne or for the sake of keeping it, it contains all sharia laws to urge people to obey blindly any tyrant. The military tyrants in the Sunnite countries of the Muhammadans need Wahabism to control people. Yet, Wahabism easily could be used to declare anyone as an apostate/renegade who has forsaken 'Islam'. Such declaration is followed by a call to revolt against any ruler who is declared an apostate. Hence, Wahabis who desire to rule resort to this trick all the time. Hence, Wahabism create the tyrant and its competitor(s) simultaneously. In the same vein, the founder of the current KSA, Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, founded the Najdi brothers as his soldiers to establish his reign and monarchy. They eventually declared him to be an apostate and turned against him. Before the massacre to end the lives of the Najdi brothers, this fist KSA king established in Egypt in 1928 the terrorist MB group, on the condition of their never performing any activities in the KSA.  The terrorist MB group members grew stronger and in number throughout Egypt and outside Egypt, as a terrorist organization aiming at ruling all countries in the Middle East. The terrorist MB members supported the 1952 coup in Egypt. President Gamal Abdel-Nasser later on imprisoned many terrorist MB members who pose a threat to all Egypt. Many terrorist MB members fled Egypt and relocated in the KSA, where they thrived and worked. The terrorist MB members in the KSA tried to make people revolt against the royal family. Enmity ensued between the Wahabi terrorist MB members and the Wahabi KSA royal family. We have published here on our website a book on the history of the Wahabi opposition movements against the KSA royal family. Such opposition movements resulted in the creation of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and Bin Laden. ISIS is another circle in this endless chain of terrorism.

2- Does ISIS pose a threat to the KSA?

 The answer is NO, in my opinion. The ISIS threat is limited and can be contained on security level inside the KSA. It could be contained via Wahabism; Wahabi clergy on both sides have too many things in common and they hold Shiites to be their sole archenemy. ISIS members do not care to attack the KSA as a priority. ISIS is the begotten offspring of the KSA Wahabism. If ISIS members wanted from the very beginning to control KSA and other Gulf monarchies, they would have destroyed gradually all their cities. The focus of ISIS terrorist members is establishing a caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Later on, they might think about spreading in the Gulf and all Arabia. Hence, the current KSA-led coalition is a sham one; a façade to deny any relation or link between the KSA and ISIS!

Fourthly: Then why the KSA-led collation against ISIS has been announced?

1- We say this for the sake of recording history: our years in the IQC and on our website affirm that the KSA Wahabism is behind all terror and wars in the Middle East. Our voice as a Quranist has reached all concerned persons during our brief jobs at several USA great institutions: The National Endowment for Democracy, Harvard University, USCIRF, and Woodrow Wilson International Center. Recently, we have made a speech before a hearing session in the USA Congress to show real Islam and the reality of Wahabi terror and the terrorist MB group members. We have tackled in this speech the true nature of Wahabi threat and its bad influence on the USA and Middle East.

2- What we have said remains ignored by all; no one listened to us in the Obama administration. The ISIS danger resulted in countless Syrian refugees in Europe and in attacks in Paris and California. ISIS panic grows more now in Europe and the USA. Islamist terror is the talk of all cities now in the West. It has nothing to do with real Islam: the Quran alone. All fingers of accusations are pointed now clearly at the KSA. In Germany, Angela Merkel has directly criticized the KSA. A media campaign has been launched against the KSA to force it to participate in land battles against ISIS. That is why the KSA had to wait for the storm to end by declaring the so-called KSA-led coalition against ISIS, comprising about thirty countries – this is unbelievable – to fight ISIS on the military level.

Lastly: This is our predictions:

1- The Middle East tyrant is defeated beforehand in any waged war unless he fights another tyrant like himself; in that case, both tyrants are defeated.

2- It is a masquerade to see about thirty countries making a coalition not against the USA or Russia but against ISIS; as if ISIS is the super power unknown before that aims to invade the planet! (Please laugh loudly!).

3- This coalition will succeed only in one thing: fighting the Shiites who are fought as well by ISIS terrorist members.

4- Happy New Year!


 

John Rossomando Asked And I Answered (Through Emails)

Questions And Answers About (Geller), ( Siddiques ) And ( ISIS)

First publishedonline

Question:

Here’s what Geller said about Siddique’s comment and an ISIS death threat that was published three days after the interview.

“This is certainly incitement,” Geller told the IPT in an email. “Kaukab Siddique must know that [the ISIS threat] exists. And he is telling Muslims that what I have done in standing for free speech is tantamount to genocide. He is in effect pleading with jihadis to kill me. And this is just fine with the American academic establishment today.”

Answer:

1 - We the Muslim Quranists, make a solid distinction between the pure religion of Islam based in the Arabic Quran and the fanatic Sunny Wahhabies. The Sunni sect has many different groups. The most dangerous people among them are those conservatives Sunni who are fluent in English language, using it to defend the bloody culture of the Sunni terrorist, having two faces, disguise themselves as a moderate Muslim. They are more dangerous than ISIS, because we already recognize ISIS as an enemy. Those so – called moderate Muslims are against any kind of Muslim reform and they use their ranks and influence to alienate the real Muslim reformers who have expertise in war of ideas against Al Qaeda and Isis.

We are here in the US and our site is here in Arabic and in English:

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/index.php

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/main.php

but we are still ignored for the sake of ISIS and its sacred religious culture in the US.

2 – We respect the freedom of speech of Geller and we strongly defend her freedom and we condemn any threat to her life. As a Muslim thinker we believe that any human will be judged only before God on the Judgement day and no one – even the Prophet Mohamed – has the right to punish people because of their religion or their ideas.  This is fully detailed in my research (Religious freedom between Islam and fanatic Muslims)

http://www.uscirf.gov/about-uscirf/2009-2010-crapa-fellows-dr-ahmed-subhy-mansour

http://www.ahewar.org/eng/show.art.asp?aid=2057

Question

Do you think that Siddique’s claim that Geller had all but killed Muslims was incitement for lone-wolf jihadist to kill her based on his other statements found in the other email I sent you?

Answer

I think what she said has nothing to do with the Muslim life here in the entire West. But what he says about her may endanger her life. 

Question

Why are you confident that Siddique’s comment about Geller when taken together with his other comments could place her life in danger?

Answer

I am only confident in the mentality of ISIS. This is my concern.  

Question

Why does what a professor from Baltimore who heads a sect matter? Is it that jihadis could read his words in the Philadelphia Inquirer and decide his words confirm what they already believe about Geller?

Answer

I do not care about this professor from Baltimore. I do care about the religious culture of ISIS and Jihadists. Muslim scholars must be careful in any debate with others. Not to accuse any one to be the enemy of Islam, or something like this . This may encourage any brainwashed Sunni to kill the accused. 

INTRODUCTION

The Cursed Religion of ISIS

INTRODUCTION 

When the so-called 'Islamic State in Iraq and Syria' or ISIS has emerged at first to fight the Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, it has spread to control more terrains and gain ground in Iraq, threatening both the KSA and Egypt, and to a larger extent the USA and the West in general. ISIS has shared online videos showing massacres, mass-killings, decapitations, and enslavement and rape of women. ISIS has re-created crimes committed by the Brothers of Najd, who helped Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud establish the current KSA in the early 20th century. We have published on our website a series of articles about the Brothers of Najd and their heinous crimes in Iraq and the Levant, when ISIS emerged all of a sudden, repeated the crimes of the Brothers of Najd, with a slight difference; the atrocities of the Brothers of Najd were secretive. Atrocities of ISIS are being witnessed by the whole world via all media. We temporarily stopped the series of articles that later on has formed the book titled "The Wahabi Resistance in the KSA in the 20th Century" in order to write the first article on ISIS titled "ISIS Members Are Infidels and Rascals", followed by a series of articles on the same subject. As usual, the series of articles later on has formed a book to be published on its own. We have continued and finished later on the book on the Wahabi resistance in the KSA. Articles on ISIS have emerged in a book form, readers are reading now here, bearing the title "The Cursed Religion of ISIS", and we have chosen that title because according to the Quran, the religion of ISIS is cursed because of the heinous crimes committed by its members, who attribute their atrocities falsely to Islam, the religion of peace, justice, and absolute religious freedom. The religion of ISIS has exposed the terrorism induced by the Sunnite/Wahabi religion of the Ibn Hanbal Doctrine


 

CONTENTS:

PART I

Chapter One: Make It a Motto: ISIS Members Are Infidels and Rascals

Chapter Two: Speaking of ISIS and Hamas Movement

Chapter Three: Al-Qaradawi Is the Spiritual Imam of ISIS Members

PART II

Chapter One: Zeinab, A Donkey, and ISIS

Chapter Two: More than One Hundred Thousand Deities are Worshipped by The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

Chapter Three: The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar and Confusion

Chapter Four: Calling The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar to Repent

PART III: On Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

Chapter One:

·       In Hope of Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

·       The Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

Chapter Two:

·       A TV Show to Face ISIS Sheikhs!

·       A Notification Addressed to Free People in Egypt to Get Rid of The ISIS Sheikhs Who Control Al-Azhar

·       A Call for Creating Websites to Expose The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar: Stories of Some of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

CONCLUSION

PART I

PART I

Chapter One: Make It a Motto: ISIS Members Are Infidels and Rascals

Commenting on what happened during the time we have publishes these articles, when ISIS members were fighting in Iraq and committing massacres to achieve the aims of the Wahabi Jihad and what the Brothers of Najd desired, before their extermination, in the era of Abdul-Aziz the founder of the current KSA

Introduction: a comment simultaneous with our publishing the series of article that took the book form titled "The Wahabi Resistance in the KSA in the 20th Century"

1- During online publishing on our website of the series of articles forming this book, first written in Cairo, on 26th June 2001, atrocities happening today in Iraq and Syria compel us to comment and write to warn again and again, though we have warned before in countless articles and books, but the Muhammadan Arabs  never heed anything

2- ISIS members are following the footsteps of the Brothers of Najd formed by Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud, trying to realize what the Brothers of Najd had failed to achieve in the era of Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud the founder of the KSA. The Brothers of Najd as a group rebelled against their founder and leader, Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud, because they wanted to go on with their Sunnite Wahabi jihad: i.e., killing women and children of Iraq and the Levant. Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud saw at the time that postponement was due and that the time was not suitable for such schemes. Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud had established another terrorist group, the MB, firstly in Egypt and elsewhere later on, outside his newly-founded kingdom, to achieve that bloodshed purposes in a more suitable time later on. It seems that the suitable time has started in our miserable age in the Middle East. The terrorist MB group has branched tens of terrorist organizations, chief among them now is the ISIS organization, who has found financial and logistical aids from several local, regional, and international circles that include the KSA, Al-Qaeda, the Baathist Party, Qatar, the USA, and of course the terrorist MB group. Such circles, despite their differences and varying interests, have agreed on destroying Iraq and the Levant chiefly to spite Iran.

3- ISIS represents this diabolical alliance, whose center is the Wahabi KSA, the axis of evil and terrorism in the whole world, and the root of such terror began earlier during the establishment of the very first Saudi kingdom that lasted from 1745 to 1818, and finally, the axis of such terror now is the current third KSA founded by Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud via the swords of the Brothers of Najd, who were later on exterminated by him. This first king of the KSA gave the kingdom his family name in 1932, the year of when it was founded.

4- This is no news; we are just reminding the readers of what we have written for more than 30 years in hundreds of articles and researches. The summary of it regarding ISIS is in this title: "Make it a Motto: ISIS Members Are Infidels and Rascals". Some readers might not like this title, though it is the least we can say to describe a group of savages committing massacres for the innocent people in the name of Islam, and such savages are described in the media as ''militant Islamists'' within an ''Islamic movement'' and part of the so-called ''political Islamism''. Stop abusing and tarnishing the name of Islam, Muhammadans!

5- ISIS members are infidels and rascals; let us make it a motto uttered whenever any piece of news comes about ISIS and when any photos or videos are shared online by ISIS showing the mass murder and terrorizing of civilians. Such a motto should be written on walls and chanted in demonstrations until the end of the ISIS catastrophe. This motto is the least one could say to defend Islam and the rights of the poor victims of ISIS!

Firstly: ISIS members are infidels and rascals:

1- Disbelief (or Kufr in Arabic) in terms of behavior means that one is deemed a nonbeliever in or denier/rejecter of the Quran when one commits the crimes of armed aggression unjustly, especially to coerce others in religion. There is another type of disbelief/Kufr concerning faith or creed in Islam, a Kufr practiced within one's heart; i.e., to sanctify, deify, and worship tombs, shrines, and mausoleums of the so-called saints and mortal deities, and another Kufr is practiced within one's mind and reasoning; i.e., to sanctify and revere the ancient tomes, volumes, and books of imams and scholars (as well as worshipping and deifying such authors). When both types of Kufr, in terms of aggressive behavior and in terms of heart and mind beliefs, by favoring mortal deities to God and preferring other books to the Quran, this is the lowest levels of disbelief, the very bottom indeed, especially when such murderous unjust infidels and tyrants ascribe themselves to Islam!

2- Islam is the religion of peace, revealed in the name of God, the Merciful, and the Compassionate, who sent the seal of prophets and the last of his messenger, Muhammad, as a mercy to humankind: "We did not send you except as mercy to humankind." (21:107). Prophets and messengers of God used to describe God as the Most Merciful of the merciful. This is said by Jacob: "Shall I trust you with him, as I trusted you with his brother before? God is the Best Guardian, and He is the Most Merciful of the merciful." (12:64). This is said by Joseph: "There is no blame upon you today. God will forgive you. He is the Most Merciful of the merciful." (12:92). This is said by Moses: "My Lord, forgive me and my brother, and admit us into Your mercy; for you are the Most Merciful of the merciful."  (7:151). This is said by Job:"Great harm has afflicted me, and you are the Most Merciful of the merciful." (21:83).

3- Hence, God, the Most Merciful of the merciful, has sent Muhammad as a mercy to humankind, but ISIS and other terrorist organizations under the auspices of the Wahabi axis of evil are worshipping other malevolent deity, and NOT Our God the Most Merciful of the merciful. They are worshipping an evil furious deity/god, and their spiritual ancestors, the Sunnites following the extremist Ibn Hanbal doctrine, have created for them a bloodthirsty prophet in the Al-Sirah Al-Nabaweiya books (i.e., books containing fabricated and made-up historical accounts falsely attributed to Prophet Muhammad after his death), who appears in its pages as a maniac who had endorsed bloodshed, massacres, killing of POWs, assassinations of foes and oppositional figures, and aggression of all sorts against the peaceful non-violent people. The ancient Sunnites of the Middle Ages have created notions about their false imaginary prophet, who has nothing to do with Muhammad, like the notion that he was ordered by God to fight all humanity to coerce them into converting into their bloody religion. Of course, such falsehoods and crimes have nothing to do with the Quran; in fact, they are totally against the message of the Quran.  To aggravate matters, such criminals and terrorists ascribe themselves and their evil deeds to Islam and the Quran!

4- That is why we say and spread the motto: all ISIS members are infidels and rascals!

Secondly: ISIS members are infidels and rascals!

1- It is most unfortunate to Iraq and the Levant, a fertile region rich with rivers, agriculture, and ancient civilizations, to be located in the North of deserts of Arabia, especially the Najd region with its bad climate conditions and its Arab Bedouins whom are some of them are described in the Quran as the most hypocritical and disbelieving people. We have written before on the relation between Arab Bedouins and the region of the Levant and Iraq. This relation, in sum, we know from the history of the Muhammadans as follows. Attacks and raids of the Arab Bedouins continued for a long time in history to wreak havoc in the region of the Levant and Iraq. This went on usually in the form of assaults aiming for theft and robbery, and sometimes using false religious justification that endorsed killing of civilians, men, women, and children, and enslavement and rape of women, using the motto or banner of Sunnite or Shiite 'jihad'. This went on by Arab Bedouins of Najd, by Al-Khawarij groups, the Qarmatians, the Zanj rebels, and lastly Wahabis and their offspring: ISIS.

2- All such groups who used to attack the Levant and Iraq became history, or rather in the dustbin of history; a number of pages in history textbooks in which millions of innocent victims scream, and no one cared for them. Their tyrant persecutors died out as well, after they killed, stole, robbed, enslaved, raped, and committed injustices and atrocities toward millions of poor innocent victims. On their footsteps, ISIS and the rest of terrorist organizations follow suit, financed and led by the KSA Wahabism, the axis of evil. Likewise, ISIS and the rest of terrorist organizations will end like their predecessors in the dustbin of history.

3- ISIS repeats the crimes and atrocities of its predecessors, not only in its making bad and evil use of the name of Islam, but also in theft, robbery of banks, enslavement, and rape (the so-called Jihad Al-Nikah, Arabic for sexual jihad!) as well as indiscriminate mass killings as well as premeditated murders.

4- Please remember to shout the motto "ISIS members are infidels and rascals" whenever you watch one of the ISIS videos. ISIS terrorists never know about this Quranic verse, of course: "God commands justice, and goodness, and generosity towards relatives. And He forbids immorality, and injustice, and oppression. He advises you, so that you may take heed." (16:90).

Thirdly: ISIS members are infidels and rascals:

1-We have written articles before published here on our website on the emergence of the extremist doctrine of Ibn Hanbal and its impact on the destruction of Iraq. These articles are collected in a book form published here on our website titled "The Doctrine of Ibn Hanbal – the Mother of Wahabism – and the Destruction of Iraq in the Second Abbasid Era", and in this book, we explain how the the imams, scholars, and clergymen of the Ibn Hanbal doctrine turned the masses, the mob, thieves, and highwaymen into leaders and soldiers of fanaticism and extremism. Such sheikhs intentionally contributed to the regression and backwardness of the thought schools and intellectual realm of the Muhammadans, to putting an end to the Mu'tazila, the imams off the intellectual approach to religion, philosophy, and life, and to the persecution of the Sunnite scholars and sheikhs from Al-Tabari to other imams and scholars of the Ash'ari doctrine. Wahabism since the founding of the first Saudi kingdom, then the second, and the current third one, the KSA, has managed to spread and propagate (religious ignorance) and the Ibn Hanbal doctrine extremism and fanaticism as well as to their erroneous form of jihad by expansion and invasion, killing civilians among men, women, and children in the process. Other activities of Wahabism include recruiting the masses, using oil profits, by taking advantage of regional and international conflicts about the Gulf oil that lead to the formation of terrorist organizations that recruit thousands of frustrated and furious youths. Such youths find the opportunity for becoming 'leaders' and taking revenge from societies where wealth and authority cannot be shared. Such terrorist youths find in killing others who differ in religion, doctrine, or denomination a method to vent their chronic frustrations and psychological issues and mental ailments.            

2- Terrorism can never be eradicated or eliminated with military, police, and security solutions only; even if all terrorists and extremists worldwide are exterminated or annihilated, this would be of no use. The only solution to dry all pockets of terror is to face thought with counter thought. Extremist thought that generates terrorism would dominate and prevail, causing the murder of millions and spreading corruption worldwide as long as it ascribes itself to Islam unquestioningly. Such terrorist thought would produce generations of terrorists to emerge in every age everywhere. The solution that we do not tire of repeating to remind all parties concerned lies in establishing a reformist thought movement reinforced by laws and legislations that assert the absolute religious freedom as well as liberty of thought, expression, and creativity for everyone, including Wahabis themselves. Without such freedom in the Middle East, Wahabism shall remain unquestioned, cannot be criticized, and apparently irrefutable under the pretext that it is the only form of Islam possible. Wahabism cannot be discussed and questioned because people in authority prevent such discussions worldwide as much as they can. Wahabism can fall easily once questioned and discussed away from the terror imposed by its guardians.

3- It is a grave error in media to call ISIS and any other Wahabi terrorist organizations by names like 'Islamic' movement, political 'Islam', or 'Islamism'. Ascribing falsely such criminals to Islam is a grave injustice toward this great religion, and this facilitates more bloodshed to come for all Wahabis and non-Wahabis, such as the Shiites, Christians, secular people, and the rest of innocent people.

4- That is why we urge all readers to chant the motto: ISIS members are infidels and rascals.


 

Chapter Two: Speaking of ISIS and Hamas Movement  

 We have received an email message containing a question about the notion of paying tributes; is it a form of aggression or not? Is paying money for the sake of avoiding evildoing of others deemed bribery or not? To give proper response to the queries posed here, we should shed light on the contradiction between the Islamic sharia in the Quran and crimes committed by ISIS and Hamas Movement. Here is our reply as follows.

Firstly: dealing with aggressors between justice and charity:

1- Celestial religion of God revealed in all the divine messages sent to humanity via prophets and messengers aim at one thing: justice. God in the Quran commands justice and charity, and He orders us to avoid immorality, evildoing, and injustice. Justice is the higher value aimed by the Quranic sharia; this upper value dominates all orders, commands, prohibitions, and rules if the legislation in the Quran. We have several articles and books on our website that explain this in detail. Accordingly, any Quranic command or legislations is interpreted within the value of justice. This fundamental rule is understood clearly from contemplating the Quranic text.

2- We have written in our book titled "What Is Never Uttered in the History of Omar" that imposing the payment of tributes is confined to the aggressors who assault the peaceful Islamic country when such aggressors are defeated by this country in its lawful right of self-defense. Aggressors are to pay tribute as a penalty for aggression to compensate for losses and damages. This is part of justice; paying tributes never means to invade and occupy lands of any assaulting enemies and to force taxes on its inhabitants.

3- The application by the so-called companions of the Prophet Muhammad – after his death when they conquered several countries – of the notion of paying tributes is wrong and contradicts the Quran. The so-called caliphs before the Umayyad Dynasty conquered countries, a form of aggression against the Quran, which never led any assaults or launched wars against Arabia. When they invade and occupies these peaceful countries, they imposed tributes and taxes on its original inhabitants. Prophet Muhammad as a leader of the really Islamic city-state in Yathreb never imposed any taxes or tributes on the aggressive Meccan people after he conquered Mecca. The Meccan people converted to Islam, and Muhammad returned with his army to Yathreb, though he was born in mecca and was driven formerly out of it by his tribe, Qorayish. It is said in history, but with little historical evidence to support such a claim, that Muhammad sent written messages to rulers of countries surrounding Arabia to call them peacefully to Islam, giving them the responsibility of guiding their peoples, with no intention of invading or conquering these countries.

4- The West in modern times imposed a sort of punishment on Germany after World War I & II and literally occupied and invaded Germany. The West imposed sanctions on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, and Iraq was later on invaded. To invade and occupy the land or country of the defeated enemy whose people were formerly aggressors is against the Quranic legislations or sharia. Yet, the West committed fewer errors in comparison to the so-called caliphs who came before the Umayyads; Islamic sharia in the Quran is more just and fairer than the modern international law that allows the invasion and occupation of the enemies' country and imposing punishment on those who were formerly aggressors.

5- Giving money for the sake of avoiding evildoing of others within a given society is an act belonging to a value higher than justice in Islamic morality in the Quran; namely, charity. It is a value higher than tolerance of our modern age. Charity here does NOT mean to deal justly with aggressors by exacting retribution; rather, to react to aggressors using forgiveness, self-restraint, charity toward aggressors, and pardoning them for the sake of obtaining God's gratification. "The repayment of a bad action is one equivalent to it. But whoever pardons and makes reconciliation, his reward lies with God. He does not love the unjust." (42:40). Hence, it is fair and just to exact retribution, but it is better to apply charity to foes for the love of God and for His sake.

6- Application of such value in dealing with aggressors or any aggressive foes threatening to attack and assault any Islamic country entails two levels.  1) Justice that entails retribution, and 2) the higher level of charity: try to win their hearts and minds and appeal to them, even by paying them money, within a state of strength, not weakness on the part of those who pay; that is, the Islamic country should be ready militarily to defend itself against aggressors in case of being attacked. "As for those who commit aggression against you, retaliate against them in the same measure as they have committed against you. And be conscious of God, and know that God is with the righteous." (2:194). "And prepare against them all the power you can muster, and all the cavalry you can mobilize, to terrify thereby God's enemies and your enemies, and others besides them whom you do not know, but God knows them. Whatever you spend in God's way will be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged." (8:60). Hence, military readiness as much as a country can is not for assaulting others but to deter potential enemies and to prevent them from any possible attack. That is to say, to impose peace with all possible leans; a weak Islamic country might tempt aggressive foes to attack and invade it. Military power exists here to prevent bloodshed of Muslims and also of those potential attackers. In winning a potential enemy to one's side using money, humane aid, trade, etc. is a type of charity ordered by God in the Quran, even in situations when believers deal with one another and with peaceful foreigners or outsiders. "God commands justice, goodness, charity, and generosity towards relatives. And He forbids immorality, and injustice, and oppression. He advises you, so that you may take heed." (16:90) hence, charity toward foes or enemies prevents evildoing like assaults and attacks and maintains peace.

Secondly: Those whose hearts are won by charity within the notion of charity in the Islamic sharia of the Quran:

1- By the way, such a policy is adopted by the West in general and even the West churches in their humane aids offered to the countries of the Muhammadans, unconditionally and without waiting for a certain return. In contrast, the Middle East tyrants hold media-focused self-honorary celebrations when they offer little aid, charity, or help in anything, and they keep nagging and annoying those who received their help, until they turn into enemies. Simultaneously, Middle East tyrants who lack oil riches receive several financial aids from the West, and that money enters their pockets and their cronies' pockets and never reaches the poor citizens. If such financial aids ever reach the poor directly and human rights activists, they might be imprisoned and accused of being treacherous agents and traitors!

2- The Quran commands such charitable help centuries before being applied by the West. "Charities are for the poor, and the destitute, and those who administer them, and for reconciling hearts, and for freeing slaves, and for those in debt, and in the path of God, and for the traveler in need-an obligation from God. God is All-Knowing, Most Wise." (9:60) this means that alms and zakat collected by any Islamic country from citizens should be distributed in the way mentioned in this verse. This includes wining the hearts of potential aggressors or foes and spending in matters of the call for Islam and the defensive jihad against attackers. We note that those who deserve formal (i.e. administered by the state) charity are defined by certain epithets in this verse. The poor includes all poor people regardless of their religions, and this applies to the rest of the categories deserving charity money. Foreign travellers in need include tourists as well; they ought to be treated generously if they are needy. As for reconciling hearts, this means that they are paid to stop their aggression; i.e. to restore them to peaceful existence: Islam in terms of behavior, not belief. This category might include internal agents of rebellious nature that might cause unrest, or outside forces that plan to attack one's country; charity money given to them helps in removing their evildoing tendency.

3- The Quranic expression of reconciling hearts is repeated in the Quranic Chapter 8, in a context that mentions war against aggressors, asserting the fact that God reconciled the hearts of the believers. Let us examine the verses in their topical contexts.

3/1: "If you fear treachery on the part of a people, break off with them in a like manner. God does not like the treacherous." (8:58). This means that that the Islamic city-state of Yathreb did not respond to treachery by treachery; rather, it faced directly and honorably any sort of treachery by the enemy looming around its borders, in a way which was transparent and public before everyone to expose the enemy and make it bear the responsibility of such treachery. Adherence to this asserts reliance on God who does not like treachery and punishes the unjust.

3/2: "Let not the disbelievers assume that they are ahead. They will not escape." (8:59). This means that however mighty disbelievers thought themselves to be, they are not so, and hence, their danger and evildoing can be avoided.

3/3: How can believers avoid the disbelievers' danger and evildoing? God tells us how it could be done: "And prepare against them all the power you can muster, and all the cavalry you can mobilize, to terrify thereby God's enemies and your enemies, and others besides them whom you do not know, but God knows them. Whatever you spend in God's way will be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged." (8:60). This means that military determent to frighten the foes in advance can peremptorily save both sides bloodshed.

3/4: If such enemy prefers peace, the Islamic city-state certainly tended to peace and would rely on God: "But if they incline towards peace, then incline towards it, and put your trust in God. He is the Hearer, the Knower." (8:61).        

3/5: What if the enemy's choice of peace turned out to be sham or a deceitful maneuver? God will undertake the mission to protect the believers; this is God's divine and unchangeable law; and the believers are not to be aggressive unless they are actually attacked first: "…evil scheming overwhelms none but its authors. Do they expect anything but the precedent of the ancients? You will not find any change in God's practice, and you will not find any substitute to God's practice." (35:43). If enemies are using peace to deceive believers, God says to believers: "If they intend to deceive you-God is sufficient for you. It is He who supported you with His aid, and with the believers." (8:62).

3/6: God reconciled the hearts of believers in the Yathreb city-state under the leadership of Muhammad; the prophet could never have done it: "And He united their hearts. Had you spent everything on earth, you would not have reconciled their hearts, but God united them together. He is Mighty and Wise." (8:63). This is the Quranic contexts of the phrase reconciling hearts of faithful believers regarding facing the aggressive assaulting enemies and reconciling the peaceful ones. 

Thirdly: all citizens within the concept of the Islamic state are the peaceful ones, regardless of their faiths and creeds:

1- We have repeated several times in several previous articles and books that Islam or overt belief in terms of behavior and demeanor is peaceful and safe existence and dealings with other human beings and that Kufr (polytheism or disbelief) in terms of behavior and demeanor is aggression, attacks, and coercion in religion. Such Kufr in behavior is the essence of the sharia laws of the Muhammadans of all types. Such erroneous sharia laws were first established by Arab conquests committed by the so-called companions of the prophet after his death and completed by the Umayyads. 'Religious' legislations and justifications of such crimes were written down in the Abbasid Era within fabrication of hadiths (oral sayings and traditions) ascribed to Muhammad, like the hadith concerning fighting all non-Muslim humanity to convert them all to Islam!

2- The Islamic city-state of Yathreb at the time of Muhammad is prohibited in the Quran from aggression: "And fight in the cause of God those who fight you, but do not commit aggression; God does not love the aggressors" (2:190). Aggressors here are disbelievers in terms of aggressive behavior, not in terms of creeds. Polytheists' traits in the Quran include breeching treaties: "Towards a believer they respect neither kinship nor treaty. These are the transgressors." (9:10). Peaceful believers, Muslims, are considered thus within their peaceful behavior, not necessarily by creed, and their attackers among assaulting enemies are disbelievers in terms of aggressive demeanor, not creed. In facing such assaulting foes, believers pray to their God for victory: "…You are our Lord and Master, so help us against the disbelieving people." (2:286). Those who begin aggression against the peaceful ones are not Muslims or believers, because God never likes aggressors: "…do not commit aggression; God does not love the aggressors." (2:190). Hence, real Islamic states never commit the crime of aggression; it is peaceful by nature by virtue of Quranic orders. That is why it has the right to invoke God for victory against their aggressors. It achieves victory by applying Islam as per the Quran, leading to peace eventually. Islam is similar to its derivational Arabic root Salam; i.e. peace. For more details, please refer to our research article titled "Islam Is The Religion of Peace", published on our website. That is why God promises to bring victory to those who apply the Quran, the religion of God which is based on peace, justice, and charity: "O you who believe! If you support God, He will support you, and will strengthen your foothold." (47:7).

3- Let us reflect on the topical Quranic contexts of the first divine legislation of military self-defense in Islamic sharia, found ONLY and exclusively in the Quran.

3/1: "God defends those who believe. God does not love any ungrateful traitor." (22:38). Obviously, the second phrase is the reason that explains the first one in this verse. The next verse shows the nature of the disbelieving traitors; they are those who coerced peaceful believers into immigration and leaving their homes and possessions due to persecution, and chased and followed them to attack them in Yathreb. At first, believers in Yathreb did not defend themselves due to the divine command: "Restrain your hands, and perform your prayers, and spend in regular charity" (4:77). Believers at first were in a status that would not allow them to militarily defend themselves and face the aggression of the Qorayish tribe of Mecca, that is why God told them in 4:77 not to prepare armies yet I self-defense endeavors.

3/2: When Yathreb believers were ready psychologically, logistically, and financially to engage into self-defense endeavor, the divine permission came to that effect, with details of this legislations clear in the Quranic text: "Permission is given to those who are fought against, and God is Able to give them victory. Those who were unjustly evicted from their homes, merely for saying, "Our Lord is God." Were it not that God repels people by means of others: monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques-where the name of God is mentioned much-would have been demolished. God supports whoever supports Him. God is Strong and Mighty." (22:39-40). Aggressors, deemed disbelievers due to their aggression behavior, committed the following crimes: they forced peaceful believers out of their houses and possessions and then attacked them in their new home in Yathreb with the intention to annihilate them and eradicate the burgeoning religion of Islam. At first, God restrained believers from military self-defense, and then later on, God legislates in the Quran self-defensive wars to achieve a higher value and a greater sharia aim: i.e., complete religious freedom and protection of houses of worship belonging to everyone. God prohibits in the Quran the destruction or demolishing of all houses of worship: all temples, convents, churches, etc. belonging to Christians and Jews, and that is why God grant victory to those who side with religion of God, which is based on peace, justice, religious freedom, and waging wars ONLY in cases of self-defense. God is Omnipotent.

3/3: The Quranic partial topical context begins here with "God defends those who believe. God does not love any ungrateful traitor." (22:38) and ends in ''…God supports whoever supports Him. God is Strong and Mighty.'' (22:40). Hence, the beginning and the end are within the divine defense of the faithful believers and granting them victory. In the middle, we find the legislations of the self-defensive measures in detail to face and deter disbelievers and their aggression, tyranny, oppression, and injustice. Such details include paying tribute and pay money to those we aim to reconcile their hearts toward us.

4- The real Islamic state or country deals with other countries that have different creeds within values of justice, charity, and peace as long as these countries are NOT aggressive toward the peaceful believers, but is allowed to fight aggressors and not to cooperate with them in times of enmity: "As for those who have not fought against you for your religion, nor expelled you from your homes, God does not prohibit you from dealing with them kindly and equitably. God loves the equitable. But God prohibits you from befriending those who fought against you over your religion, and expelled you from your homes, and aided in your expulsion. Whoever takes them for friends-these are the wrongdoers." (60:8-9). The Quranic legislative law here in Islam cooperation in charity and piety, not in aggression and evildoing: "…And cooperate with one another in virtuous conduct and conscience, and do not cooperate with one another in sin and hostility…" (5:2).

Fourthly: in accordance with all of the above, we conclude the following points concerning ISIS and Hamas Movement.

1- ISIS terrorists are a disbelieving, unjust, aggressive group, and this applies to whoever supports them. Those infidels are committing crimes against Islam when they commit their atrocities against peaceful innocent Christians, Jews, and Shiites.   

2- Hamas Movement belongs to the same Wahabi creed, just like ISIS, the KSA, and the terrorist MB group, among others. As per Islamic sharia in the Quran, Hamas Movement should never fight Israel until it is ready and have the same, or greater, military power as Israel. The movement should in that case resist Israel if the latter fights peaceful Palestinians in Gaza, like the case of the Qorayish aggression against peaceful people in Yathreb.

3- Peaceful channels would be better for Hamas Movement in order to realize the goal of restoring rights and liberation of Arab lands. This path was followed by Gandhi, Mandela, and Martin Luther King. They were leaders who suffered a lot and adhered to patience and peaceful means in their struggles for rights. Most importantly, they died in poverty. Let us remember that Mandela left rule and confined himself to charity works; those who sought to meet him had to pay for the charitable work for the sake of the poor in South Africa. Such great men, Gandhi, King, and Mandela, died as noble and poor persons, and they knew little about the great Quranic legislations of Islam, but applied them. What about ISIS and Hamas Movement?!

4- It is an illusion to think that the Palestinians had to fight; any terrorist suicide acts or indiscriminate killings or bombings that kill civilians are not resistance. Most victims are among Palestinians, not among the Israelis. The only beneficiaries are billionaires among the Hamas Movement who trade with Palestinian blood. Hamas Movement men should prevent the bloodshed of the Gaza Strip people, not to use them as human shields!

5- This does Not imply that we defend Israeli crimes against the Palestinians and its involvement in bloodshed and its negligence of the Palestinian cause and right of statehood. We aim to prevent shedding of innocent blood in Gaza; we are addressing with these words Hamas Movement that claim to believe in the Quran.

6- ISIS murder and mass-kill the innocent unarmed people and force the peaceful ones out of their homelands, houses, and possessions. ISIS goes on murdering and killing innocent peaceful people, exceeding all boundaries and limits of injustice, aggression, and tyranny, in comparison to the Qorayish tribe. ISIS commits its massacres and crimes shouting ''Allahu Akbar!'' (God is the Greatest!), and its terrorists claim that they apply Islam! In fact, they insult and tarnish Islam and killing peaceful people including Muslims.

7- Hamas Movement use Palestinian children and women and houses in Gaza as shields in order to achieve certain political and financial gains. The number of those killed increases with the passage of time; yet, Hamas Movement exposes the Gaza people to death and their houses to destruction, while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" (God is the Greatest!), and its terrorists claim that they apply Islam! In fact, they insult and tarnish Islam and killing peaceful people including Muslims.

8- ISIS and Hamas Movement spread the culture of death among those around them in order to thrive, make wealth, and maintain power, even if the price is forming pyramids of skulls and human severed parts and remains of the innocent victims killed!

Lastly:

Devils like very much in most cases to be disguised using religious garbs, turbans, and moustache-less beards!


 

Chapter Three: Al-Qaradawi Is the Spiritual Imam of ISIS Members

Firstly: The ISIS members:

1- We find in the YouTube website the images and videos of ISIS members walking in the Iraqi city of Al-Mosul brandishing his machine-gun, thick and long beard, and Middle-Ages dress. If it had not been for the modern arms, we might have imagined them dropping out of a book on Middle-Ages history; they are similar in dress like the Qarmatians and Al-Khawarij groups. Those ISIS members in their appearance and dress code assert the ability of the earthly man-made creed, when dominant and prevalent, to change people's nature and to revive the corrupt rotten past freaks from their tombs, resuscitating them to spread destruction and wreak havoc in the regions, and to commit crimes, atrocities, and massacres while shouting ''Allahu Akbar!'' (God is the Greatest!).

2- The ISIS members, though deemed murderers, are simultaneously victims! Let us remember that they have been innocent babies with pure natures, laughing and crying and people around them feel like offering them tender loving care. This is the beginning of every baby born into this life, and the birth of ISIS members as people is no exception. All babies are the same, regardless of races, colors, genders, and cultures anytime and everywhere. The difference occurs when babies grow up into childhood and adulthood, exposed to all social factors leading to discrimination and negative differences. Growing into adulthood, youths acquire the culture of their respective societies; they become American, European, Asian, or African youths. If unfortunate enough, they might be Arabs and Muhammadans; i.e., controlled by the worst type of all earthly, man-made, fabricated creeds: Wahabism. Most youths of the West live the present and breathe the future, whereas the Salafist Wahabi Arab youths live the present and breathe the Salafist ancient past, and try hard to impose such a past on their present times. They mostly live in societies controlled by dominant tranny and corruption, where a small-numbered filthily-rich elite group control all power, authority, and wealth of a given nation, and such elite deals with the rest, i.e., the vast majority, with the logic and manner of tyranny and enslavement. Such elite fear the fury and rebellion of youth; that is why this elite distract youths of their nations with man-made creeds, especially Wahabism, to make them find in it an alternative way to vent their frustrations and ire as well as their aborted dreams and latent envy. Some frustrated youths turn into ruthless assassins, killers, and murderers who mercilessly shed the blood of innocent people, thinking that their massacres and heinous crimes are 'religious' duties, rewarded by Paradise and houris opening their arms and legs to them, waiting for them in the Afterlife upon their death as suicide bombers!

Secondly: Al-Qaradawi the imam of the ISIS members:

1- Despite the fact that the only divine source of Islam, the Quran as per the thought and theory of Quranists worldwide, contradicts all of the above, with its call for mercy, charity, justice, religious freedom, liberties, equality, tolerance, good deeds and dealings with POWs, the care for the right to live for every single human being, among other human rights, and legislating wars ONLY in cases of self-defense, as well as its severe punishments for killings of peaceful non-violent non-aggressive people.

2- Intentional distortion and misinterpretations of the Quran, i.e. Islam, are part of deluding, misleading, and misguiding youths by ISIS and similar terrorist organizations, whose only root are the criminal imams and theologians of the Wahabi creed (synonymous with Salafism), and on top of the list of all theologians/imams of Wahabism comes Sheikh Al-Qaradawi, the top imam of ISIS members and all Wahabis and terrorists.

3- ISIS members are youths who commit murders and massacres with vehemence and zeal. The number of ISIS victims increases with the passage of time. Yet, ISIS members are victims at the same time; they are victims of Al-Qaradawi and countless theologians like him among imams of Wahabism. Such imams are the most savage bloodthirsty of all Muhammadans. They are the real enemies of God, of Islam, of all moralistic values, and all humanity at large. No Wahabi imam might imagine his son as an ISIS member or a suicide bomber (i.e. Wahabi jihadist). All dreams of Wahabi imams are confined to just one thing: to fill his safes and coffers with money via misleading and misguiding innocent youths to drive them to murder and kill innocent people. Such sheikhs and imams are now being revered, worshipped, and sanctified; people vie to show their due respects to them by kissing their feet and hands and to donate money for them. The Wahabi imams are among the types of people who intentionally hide and ignore the Quranic facts: "Those who conceal what God revealed in the Book, and exchange it for a small price-those swallow nothing but fire into their bellies. And God will not speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them, and they will have a painful punishment. It is they who exchange guidance for error, and forgiveness for punishment. But why do they insist on the Fire?" (2:174-175).

4- Because of the limitless and boundless crimes of the clergymen and theologians of the man-made, earthly, fabricated creeds, Europe revolted log ago against the Church. Karl Marx had written the famous phrase:Religion is the opium of the masses. For Quranists, this phrase refers to the man-made, earthly, fabricated creeds, because the real divine celestial religion has no effect on most people on the planet. Historically, another famous phrase is as follows: Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Europeans never forget the atrocities committed by the Catholic Church in the Middle-Ages. They revolted against mingling creeds with politics. They confined religions to houses of worship; churches confined their social activities to charity works. Europe achieved progress and scientific advances via secularism and led the rest of humanity at one time. Egypt was about to catch up with this European train of European progress in the 19th century, but unfortunately, all endeavors in Egypt for secularism have been aborted by the emergence of Wahabism, coming from Arabia, which still dominates Egypt. Conversion of most Egyptians, unwittingly, to Wahabism as if it were 'authentic' and 'ancient', and hence fundamental or 'original', form of Islam has been done firstly by the efforts of the terrorist MB group, formed in Egypt in 1928 with KSA aid, and other similar Wahabi and Salafist groups, societies, and organizations that mushroomed in Egypt, and the Arab world later on, like cancerous cells. Hence, most of the Muhammadans are now Wahabis. Wahabi imams and theologians have become worshiped, honored, dignified, revered venerable clergymen, especially the Egyptian ones: Al-Shaarawi, Al-Ghazali, and lastly Al-Qaradawi.

Thirdly: Two types of religious preachers:

1- Arab people tend to listen attentively to preachers who call for religion. Preachers and callers are currently divided into two types. The first type, ignored by most Arabs and Muhammadans, is the Quranists, who call for the return to true Islam, the Quran alone, the true and ONLY legacy left to us by Muhammad, whom God told him to preach it all his lifetime: "So do not obey the disbelievers, but strive against them with it, a mighty struggle." (25:52). The pronoun ''it'' in this verse refers to the Quran. Muhammad in his prophethood or ministry used nothing but the Quran to preach, warn, bring glad tidings, proselytize, and call for the path of the One God: "And warn with it those who fear to be gathered before their Lord-they have no protector or intercessor apart from him-perhaps they will grow in piety." (6:51). "We are fully aware of what they say, and you are not a dictator over them. So remind by the Quran whoever fears My warning." (50:45). "A Scripture was revealed to you, so let there be no anxiety in your heart because of it. You are to warn with it-and a reminder for the believers. Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord, and do not follow other masters beside Him. Little you recollect." (7:2-3). Such true preachers, the Quranists, who call for the path of truth never ask reward from people; they give their souls and lifetime to God alone.

2- In contrast, the second type of preachers is among the Muhammadans (Sunnites, Shiites, Wahabis, Salafis, Sufis, etc.) and their man-made creeds; they are preachers who are so popular among Arabs, despite their wrong erroneous notions spread and dominant all over the Arab world and are being listened to, whole-heartedly and attentively, by most people. God says in the Quran about such devilish preachers everywhere and every time: "Among the people is he whose speech about the worldly life impresses you, and he calls God to witness what is in his heart, while he is the most hostile of adversaries. When he gains power, he strives to spread corruption on earth, destroying properties and lives. God does not like corruption. And when he is told, "Beware of God," his pride leads him to more sin. Hell is enough for him-a dreadful abode." (2:204-206). This applies to Wahabi preachers in particular. If one tries to face Al-Qaradawi by saying to him 'Beware of God in what you are doing to people!', he will get mad at the speaker and will go on sinning; his mission remains to be corrupting on earth by his call, teachings, and preaching that turn innocent youths into ISIS members.

3- In contrast to Al-Qaradawi and the rest of Wahabi preachers, there are Quranist preachers giving and dedicating their souls in service of God, seeking only to gratify Him to gain His reward in Paradise, hoping in the Afterlife to find this verse applying to them: "And among the people is he who sells himself seeking God's approval. God is kind towards the servants." (2:207).

4- The difference between the Quranists and the Wahabis/Salafis is the formers' call for peace: "O you who believe! Enter into peace, wholeheartedly, and do not follow the footsteps of Satan; he is to you an outright enemy." (2:208). This is a divine command to us to live in peace during all our lifetime. It is forbidden in the Quran to act aggressively by attacking and assaulting others; what is permissible only is self-defense when attacked, and God never likes aggressors: see 2:190. This is true Islam, the religion of peace preached and adhered to by Quranists who call for peace, justice, and charity. True preachers who are true to the Lord Our God call for peace, whereas preachers of the devils and misguidance call for bloodshed, like Al-Qaradawi the real imam of ISIS and its horrible era!

Fourthly: There is no room for 'moderation' or the 'happy medium' in the field of preaching: those who hide the truth are cursed:

1-  There is no room for fluctuating and seeking piece-meal solutions and in-between paths in the field of preaching; there are extremist preachers who call for the devilish path of violence and bloodshed and seek to spread lies and falsehoods called hadiths and theology, and in contrast, there are those who preach the Quranic Truth facts, the Quranists, who are outspoken and vociferous in the cyberspace as far as true Islam is concerned, citing evidence from the Quran to prove the devilish preachers wrong and how they are the real enemies of God and Islam. In between both types, there are those preachers who are wavering, varying, changing colors like chameleons, vacillating, and fluctuating; they are silent as far as the Quranic Truth is concerned, but they do not spread falsehoods and lies like Wahabis/Salafists. This in-between type of preachers is cursed as well; they are NOT elucidating, showing, or explaining the divine message of the Quran to people. Quranic facts are clear enough to those who really endeavor to contemplate and reflect upon them once they read the Quranic verses; those who are reluctant to read them and show their true meaning and interpretations linked to modern life now deserve to be cursed by God due to their reluctance to face falsehoods with Quranic Truth facts. In the field of religious preaching, no middle in-between positions or stances are allowed at all; one has to choose what is deemed to be the right thing for them to do and say. Hiding Quranic facts and never referring to them while preaching are crimes against God, and their perpetrators deserve to be cursed. "Those who suppress the proofs and the guidance We have revealed, after We have clarified them to humanity in the Scripture-those-God curses them, and the cursers curse them." (2:159). Such people have the chance during their lifetime to repent and show and announce clearly and lucidly the Quranic Truth, without fearing blame by others; this is the only manner to make amends and repent: "Except those who repent, and reform, and proclaim. Those-I will accept their repentance. I am the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful." (2:160).

2- As for those who are still remaining silent and keep their intentional ignoring of announcing the true stance of Islam and its Quranic facts until they die, God says about them the following: "But as for those who reject faith, and die rejecting-those-upon them is the curse of God, and of the angels, and of all humanity. They will remain under it forever, and the torment will not be lightened for them, and they will not be reprieved." (2:161-162).

Fifthly: The stance of Al-Qaradawi:

1- While we are writing these lines, Al-Qaradawi is still alive at this moment; he is born in September 1926. He has spent about 60 years of his lifetime preaching the Satanic falsehoods leading to corruption, tyranny, bloodshed, massacres, and destruction. He still has the chance to repent as long as he lives, if he chose to repent indeed. He is still going on preaching. If someone addresses him by admonishing him to fear God and beware of His wrath, as he is an octogenarian about to turn into a nonagenarian, yet he insists on spreading and propagating lies and falsehoods instead of repenting before his imminent death. His reluctance to reveal and talk about the Quranic Truth and the ever-increasing number of millions of people deceived by him and the thousands of victims who have become terrorists because of him are scandalous! His ill-gotten money from Wahabism agents will be of no use of him in the moment of dying; he should stop supporting tyranny and corruption and calling for more bloodshed. Clergymen of Christian denominations dedicating their lives to charity acts, even toward hungry Arabs and Muhamadans, should be his ideals to follow. Why his conscience is not awakened or pricked by the scenes of massacred innocent women, men and children?! His preaching justifies and endorses all this bloodshed as sacred duty! Until when his sins will go on without repentance?! Until when will he remain an ISIS imam of terror?! If Al-Qaradawi hears these phrases in public, would he shed tears and repent, declaring in public his being wrong and announcing his atonement for his sins? Or would he deny his guilt, claiming that his conscience is clear?! What would be his stance and reaction?!

2- It is miraculous predictions to find the following verses in the Quran: "Among the people is he whose speech about the worldly life impresses you, and he calls God to witness what is in his heart, while he is the most hostile of adversaries. When he gains power, he strives to spread corruption on earth, destroying properties and lives. God does not like corruption. And when he is told, "Beware of God," his pride leads him to more sin. Hell is enough for him-a dreadful abode. And among the people is he who sells himself seeking God's approval. God is kind towards the servants." (2:204-207). The phrase ''among people'' indicates that as long as there are societies, until Doomsday, there will be on earth those who breach falsehoods ascribed falsely to God's religion leading to bloodshed, corruption, and destruction, and there will be, in contrast, those who preach for peace and divine Truth seeking to please God. In every human society, there are the likes of Al-Qaradawi!

3- In the Day of Resurrection, preachers of Truth will be witnesses who testify against preachers of falsehoods; God says in the Quran about the latter: "Who does greater wrong than he who fabricates lies about God? These will be presented before their Lord, and the witnesses will say, "These are they who lied about their Lord." Indeed, the curse of God is upon the wrongdoers. Those who hinder others from the path of God, and seek to make it crooked; and regarding the Hereafter, they are in denial. These will not escape on earth, and they have no protectors besides God. The punishment will be doubled for them. They have failed to hear, and they have failed to see. Those are the ones who lost their souls, and what they had invented has strayed away from them. Without a doubt, in the Hereafter, they will be the biggest losers." (11:18-22).

Lastly:

1- We say to Al-Qaradawi that the remainder of his lifetime is not much, and his death moment draws nearer; he should repent before it is too late. "Have they not observed the government of the heavens and the earth, and all the things that God created, and that their time may have drawn near? Which message, besides this, will they believe in?" (7:185).

2- God says nothing but the Truth.

PART II

PART II                                          

Chapter One: Zeinab, A Donkey, and ISIS

Introduction:

We have received this question via an email message: (Why, Zeinab, the granddaughter of Prophet Muhammad, was chased from one country to another as we read in history? Had she any written will which was dictated by Prophet Muhammad? Would you kindly, with your expertise in history, please clarify this matter?). The answer to these queries is found by the end of this chapter, to link the miserable present with the more miserable past.

Firstly: Zeinab:

1- This historical character, descendant of Fatima, Muhammad's daughter, and Ali Ibn Abou Talib, is mentioned within the historical accounts of the Karbala Battle, within the well-known audience between her and the second Umayyad caliph Yazeed Ibn Muaweiyya, in Damascus. She later on returned to her birth-place, Yathreb, along with her remaining relatives who survived the Karbala massacre. It is claimed that she brought with her the severed head of Al-Hussein, which was buried in the area of Al-Biqee' area in Yathreb. Later on, a revolt against the Umayyads broke out in Yathreb. An Umayyad army was sent there, and it crushed and quelled this revolt, after episodes of mass-killings, rape, robbing, stealing, among other crimes, in Yathreb. This battle is called in history, the Battle of Al-Hurrah, a year after the Karbala Battle. We have referred to such events in detail in other articles on our website. We, as a researcher specialized in history, assert that Zeinab is never mentioned in history after the Karbala Battle and massacre; no historical account of her is written after this battle is to be found at all after her return to Yathreb. Even historical accounts that narrate the Battle of Al-Hurrah events never mention her name at all. We conclude that she had no role to be registered at the time by historians, who were shocked like the rest of Arabs after the Karbala massacre events.

2- All of the above-mentioned facts are in contrast with the myths written and propagated centuries after the Battle of Karbala; when the cult of worshipping and sanctifying and deifying Al-Hussein (as a deity or a saint) and his sister Zeinab (as a goddess or a saint) became a major feature in the three earthly, fabricated, man-made creeds of the Muhammadans: the Sunnite, the Shiite, and the Sufi creeds. Some liars made up the myth that Zeinab fled Yathreb to Damascus, or to Iraq, or as some others claim, she fled to Egypt. in every location we mention here, i.e. Iraq and the Levant and Egypt, shrines and mausoleums have been erected to revere and worship her. She became a cult of worship by the Muhamadans. This is polytheism and of course against the Quranic verses. The same cult included the worship and sanctification of the severed head of her brother Al-Hussein, which has its separate shrines and mausoleums. Hence, we have several tombs for Zeinab and the head of her brother! Of course, she had but one body, and her brother had but one head, buried in Al-Biqee' area in Yathreb. Hence, such several mausoleums and myths about Zeinab and her brother are mere falsehoods and a punch of lies that persist until today, just like the falsehoods of the three man-made creeds of Shiites, Sunnites, and Sufis, ascribed falsely to Islam.

3- Strange enough, Egypt never witnessed throughout the centuries of the Umayyad, Abbasid, and Mameluke eras the establishment of a mausoleum dedicated to Zeinab. However it has been established in Cairo, Egypt, in the Ottoman era, by an Ottoman governor in the 19th century, when a Sufi person claimed that he had seen a dream that the soul of Zeinab had descended in that spot in Cairo! The mosque bearing her name was erected at the same spot! We have discussed and written this within two books we have included in the curricula of students in the History Department, Azhar University, in 1982. The titles of these two books are as follows: "Research in Sources of Religious History: A Practical Study" and "The Character of Egypt after the Arab Conquest".        

4- The first title, unpublished here yet on our website, is an unprecedented work in the field of history research, establishing a new methodology of history research in religious history of the Muhammadans; we are the first researcher to create such methodology. The book tackles the Muhammadans' religious history sources and offers analytical study of them, along with practical application concerning how to glean and draw historical facts from them. Such sources are mostly unknown to most researchers, and they include books of Sufi feats of saints, books of pilgrimage spots of 'holy' saints' tombs, and books of social and religious aspects of life around such tombs. Among such books in the Mameluke era in Egypt the one titled "Al-Kawakib Al-Sayyarah" by Ibn Al-Zayyat and the other one titled "Tohfat Al-Ahbab" by the Sufi Al-Sakhawy. We have written the following about these two books: both books mention all famous and all less-than-famous shrines or mausoleums and all the stories connected with its buried male or female saint, especially if the dead ones claimed to be descendants of Prophet Muhammad's progeny. Yet, both books never mention any mausoleum for Zeinab. It is never mentioned in other ancient historical books like "Al-Intessar" by Ibn Daqmaq and "Khetat Al-Makrizi" by Al-Makrizi, and both tomes describe meticulously each area in Cairo and in Egypt. The reason: the so-called mausoleum ascribed to Zeinab has been a fabricated tale in the Ottoman era, based on a vision or a dream by a Sufi in 955 A.H. (1548 A.D.), and this mosque/mausoleum had been restored and renovated in 1173 A.H. (1759 A.D.), and then the Ministry of Religious Endowments (i.e. Awqaf, in Arabic) in Egypt built the current mosque in 1940 A.D. on the ruins of the old one. The myth has it that Zeinab, the daughter of Ali Ibn Abou Talib, came to Egypt in the last days of her lifetime. Yet, all history books and accounts written before and during the Mameluke era never mention her arrival to Egypt at all. Her assumed arrival would never have been ignored by historians of course, especially that Al-Makrizi in his books mentions all those who came to Egypt among the so-called prophet's companions and their later generations. The same was done by Al-Siyouti in his book titled "Husn Al-Muhadarah", in alphabetical order as well. Both historians never mentioned Zeinab at all, despite their keen interest in registering all names of Arabs who came to Egypt, especially those who claimed to be among the prophet's progeny.

5- In our book, published here on our website, titled "The Character of Egypt after the Arab Conquest", we assert and prove the fact that the Arab conquest of Egypt did not offer anything new to Egypt in the political and strategic aspects concerning its geographic location, nor such a conquest brought anything new in the religious aspect of Egyptian life. It is the Egyptians who had Egyptianized the creed of the Arabs; old Pharaonic notions and creed tenets were restored dressed into Islamic terminology, especially the cult of worshipping the goddess Isis. Our book proves that in the Pharaonic cults lie the origins of the deification and worship of Zeinab, or any 'holy' female figure, for that matter. Zeinab has been described using the same epithets given to the goddesses Isis and Maat, and later on Mary the mother of Christ, by our ancestors, the ancient Egyptians. Among such epithets are the following: The Lady, Our Lady, Judge of the Court, and Guardian of the Weak Ones. We have written in this book the following paragraph.

6- The holy trinity of the ancient Egyptians that held its influence over most non-Egyptians in the ancient world consists of Osiris, Isis, and Horus. This trinity went on during the Ptolemy dynasty in Egypt; the formal solemn oath in the Ptolemaic Era was as follows: "I swear by Osiris, Isis, Horus, and the rest of the gods…etc." and this trinity and the Isis cult spread in ancient Greece even before Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt. divine and sacred secrets of the Isis cult were dressed in Greek attire; Dionysius is akin to Osiris, and holy goddesses and female figures in Greek mythology resemble Isis. It is noteworthy that the Egyptian holy trinity was linked later on with Zeus, in the form of the god Serapis, who replaced Osiris, as the Greco-Egyptian god in Alexandria, along with the Isis cult of worship. Isis had its unique stature and reverence in the deep inner recesses of the collective minds of Egyptians for centuries; she is the mother of a god, Horus, and the one who suffered a lot for her husband and child against forces of evil. Isis cult spread in Rome as well and throughout the Roman Empire that united all countries around the Mediterranean sea and the rest of the ancient known world by politics and trade routes. Icons and cult of Isis spread very fast that way by ships of trade roaming different seas. We remember the famous papyrus discovered in Al-Bahnassa, in Upper Egypt El-Minya Governorate, that goes back to the 2nd century A.D. and mention all locations of the cult of worshipping Isis in the ancient world, and in Egypt. this papyrus mentions 67 cities in the Nile Delta alone, and 55 cities outside Egypt, arranged in relation to their countries' geographical location. The domain of the Isis cult extended to India, Arabia, Sinop port of the Black Sea, and Rome. Horus of course was linked to Isis myths as her son-god. Both were deemed the precursors of the cult of worshipping statues and icons of Madonna and child: Mary and her son Jesus. Another female trinity of goddesses is mentioned in the Quran as being worshiped before Islam in Arabia: Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat; see 53:18-19. It is clear that the second Arab goddess, Al-Uzza, had derived its name from Isis, pronounced in the Pharaonic tongue as Iza or Izzet, and then within slight changes in pronunciation by the Greeks and their adding the last /s/ sound, it had become Isis, and the Arab named her Uzza. Rome conveyed the cult of Isis to the rest of Europe, only adding more of the ancient rites of the goddesses and rituals, hymns, and feasts of the abbesses and clergymen given formerly to honor other holy female figures and goddesses of Europe. Hence, the Egyptian trinity was practically worshiped in the whole area of North Africa, France, England, Italy, Germany, etc. until the end of the 2nd century A.D., when Isis was replaced by Mary and the cult of Mariology. The image/icon of Mary carrying baby Jesus, an assumed god/ son of the Most High, a falsehood refuted in the Quran, resembles statues of Isis carrying baby Horus, ad this Mariology cult contains the clear mark and influence of the Egyptian Pharaonic mythology. A European historian talks in his book about the icon of Isis spread into the world from Egypt, and mentions that Isis is reflected in many European goddesses as the Holy Mater: Demeter, Venus, and Aphrodite, Artemis, Cynthia etc. and that the stature of Isis carrying Horus inside a crescent mood relates the sacred feminine to the moon and to Mary carrying the holy child/god Jesus, inside and outside Egypt. Isis statues, altars, icons, and temples spread all over Europe and votive candles used to burn before them, with bald celibate male clergymen served Isis and her altars. Isis was a virgin goddess carrying her holy child; likewise, Egypt has given the world the image of the virgin goddess Mary carrying the holy child/god Jesus, replacing Isis in all temples turned into tens of convents and churches inside and outside Egypt. Al-Makrizi tells us in his book that tens of churches and convents held the name of the Virgin Mary during and before the Mameluke Era, with statues of her and Jesus along with haloes. Annual ceremonies to celebrate her birthday were attended by both Muhammadans and the Coptic Orthodox Christians, in the same manner when all Egyptians used to worship Isis centuries before. Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate a certain myth that Mary and her baby son fled to Egypt to avoid the persecution of Herod, the Jewish Roman ruler of Judea, and they assume that in her journey, she passed through certain locations turned into churches and convents centuries later. Hence, the Egyptian collective mind linked Isis to Mary for centuries and Egyptianized the figure of Mary and moved it to the rest of Christendom especially in Europe and Asia. Hence, the same cult of the sacred feminine figure was repeated in the character of Zeinab, who reincarnated Isis when the Sufi creed dominated the minds of the Egyptians. "The Lady" was then title of Isis and Mary that was given to Zeinab as well after the so-called Sufi vision of establishing her assumed mausoleum in the Ottoman Era. All these facts refute the myth of the journey of Zeinab coming to Egypt carrying with her the severed head of her brother, Al-Hussein, to live in peace in Egypt till her death. Other history books assert that Zeinab returned to Yathreb to take care for the surviving progeny of her dead brothers, Al-Hussein and Al-Hassan, after the Battle of Karbala, and that she died and was buried in Al-Baqee' area outside Yathreb in 62 A.H. and all books written in eras of Arab rule or dynasties in Egypt never mention the assumed coming of Zeinab to Egypt at all, despite the utmost care of historians to register all hagiology or history of the so-called saints, and the locations of their shrines in Egypt, in the Fatimid and Mameluke eras. Let us remember that Al-Siyouti died in 911 A.H. toward the end of the Mameluke Era, and that Al-Makrizi died in 845 A.H. All these facts assert that the origin of the Zeinab myth in the Ottoman Era was due to the assumed vision or dream of a Sufi charlatan, and the Ottoman ruler built her mausoleum in 995 A.H. and it was renovated in 1173 A.H. (1759 A.D.) by the ruler Abdel-Rahman Katukhtha, and later on in 1940 in modern times. Such mausoleum is nearly 450 years old; yet, it enjoys until now countless pilgrims in Cairo! It has become a major rite in the Egyptian religious life now! Zeinab has been later on called the Lady of the Divan, a title similar to the title of Isis in the afterlife visions of the Pharaonic Era: Judge of the Court. That is why the Cairene district that houses currently the Zeinab mausoleum is called Al-Sayeda District; namely, the Arabic word for the epithet given to Isis and Zeinab: The Lady. The Egyptians have made Zeinab the Queen of Heaven, Queen of the Dead, Goddess of all gods and saints, just like Isis and Mary. It is a historical fact that Zeinab never came to Egypt.

Secondly: A Donkey:

1- In 1984, A.D., we were giving a lecture to the students at Al-Azhar University. A student asked us: Did the Prophet's granddaughter, Zeinab. come to Egypt? we told him that the definite answer is no, and that anyone who says otherwise is a donkey! The student told us that Professor Dr. Al-Tayeb Al-Najjar asserts her coming to Egypt as a historical fact. We replied fast: Then he is a donkey! We did not intend to verbally abuse any professor; rather, we assert that the donkey is used in the Quran to describe those who specialize in ancient volumes, tomes, and books, carrying them over his shoulders without understanding any of their contents. This description is used in the Quran to refer to errant ones of the Israelites. "The example of those who were entrusted with the Torah, but then failed to uphold it, is like the donkey carrying works of literature. Miserable is the example of the people who denounce God's revelations. God does not guide the wrongdoing people." (62:5). Such misguided ones among scholars or theologians are described in worse terms in another Quranic context: "And relate to them the story of him to whom We delivered Our signs, but he detached himself from them, so Satan went after him, and he became one of the perverts. Had We willed, We could have elevated him through them; but he clung to the ground, and followed his desires. His metaphor is that of a dog: if you chase it, it pants; and if you leave it alone, it pants. Such is the metaphor of the people who deny Our signs. So tell the tale, so that they may ponder. Evil is the metaphor of the people who reject Our signs and wrong themselves. Whomever God guides is the guided one. And whomever He sends astray-these are the losers. We have destined for Hell multitudes of jinn and humans. They have hearts with which they do not understand. They have eyes with which they do not see. They have ears with which they do not hear. These are like cattle. In fact, they are further astray. These are the heedless." (7:175-179). When the student asked us his question, Dr. Al-Najjar used to hold great authority and power within Azhar University. We repeat here that we did not intend to slander him or to verbally abuse him; rather, we described him as we saw fit to him: one is either to be a real researcher in history and ancient tomes or to be a donkey or jack-ass. This is not linked to posts or positions but to efficiency and creative scientific research methodology. Without all that, experts in history resemble donkeys! Such type of donkeys spread in millions within the so-called researchers and University professors in the countries of the Muhammadans, and they spread ignorance disguised as facts believed by the common gullible people.

2- Dr. Al-Najjar was among the typical Azharite people who held high positions. He used to be our teacher in the First Year, History Department, Azhar University, in 1969 A.D. Once we read his book titled "History of Prophets", we deiced never to attend his lectures, and later on all other lectures in the Department. We returned at the time to our governorate to work as a private-school teacher in the Delta city of Hehya, Al-Sharqiyah Governorate, then the headmaster of a primary school in our village, Abou Herez, from 1971 to 1973. We returned to Cairo when we were appointed as a teacher in the History Department, Azhar University, after graduating with honors and high grades, in December 1973. We were thoroughly shocked by the ignorance of Dr. Al-Najjar and the rest of the staff in the Department. We saw at the time that it was a waste of time to attend their lectures and to stay in Cairo. That is why we returned to our governorate to work during the years mentioned above. We decided that it was enough to buy the curricula books and to study them before exams. We used to get high grades/scores with honors and became the highest students in degrees upon graduation, and that is why we were appointed in the staff of the Department, whose head was Dr. Al-Najjar (from 1969 to 1973). Late Egyptian President Sadat chose Dr. Al-Najjar as the Deputy of Azhar University in 1978, during which we were in a dilemma concerning our Ph.D. thesis, ending in a compromise: they wanted us to omit two thirds of the thesis and to discuss the remainder one-third alone in the viva. Dr. Al-Najjar was among the panel of Azharite scholars who discussed our Ph.D. thesis in October 1980. He praised us by saying: "You will cause trouble to researchers who will come after you", because we narrated an improvised synopsis of our thesis in flawless classical Arabic. Dr. Al-Najjar decided to impose this type of oral synopsis on others who will discuss their theses. Dr. Al-Najjar later on became the Head of Azhar University and was chosen in 1984 as a Member in the prestigious Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo.

3- In our first year in the Department, in 1969, Dr. Al-Najjar put a book of his in our curricula titled "History of Prophets'', which we disliked very much and deemed it filled with errors exposing his ignorance. To our dismay, the same book was put in the post-graduate studies curricula. We felt insulted by this act; we were at the time a young teacher at the Department who had to study such ignorance to pass exams. Dr. Al-Najjar monopolized his specialization; he was the only professor who taught it, and he never cared for anything except to sell his scandal of a book to students! Other professors used to impose his book on undergraduate students to flatter him, fearing his authority especially after he left his post as the Head off Azhar University and concentrated his work in Islamic Civilization and History Department. When Dr. Al-Najjar commissioned us to teach his scandal of a book, we adamantly refused. We told him that we used to feel ashamed of ourselves to study and read it as a student, and we can never teach it as an assistant lecturer! We wrote our first book to teach it in our lectures, titled "Prophets in the Quran: An Analytical Study", along with other four books. Hell gates opened suddenly before us at the Department! We were suspended from work, interrogated formally, prevented from promotion, and banned from traveling abroad! We were questioned thoroughly in an inquisition-like court held in Azhar University with the usual accusation leveled against us: denying facts of Islam! Another accusation was defaming the stature of Azharite scholars! For them, contemplating the Quranic verses is a shame and a guilt that tarnished Azhar University! In our opinion, my endeavor was the embodiment of Azharite laws that stipulate the mission of Azharite scholars to elucidate facts and tenets of Islam.

4- Dr. Al-Najjar used to be among our chief foes in that affair, and he used to incite others against us. At the time, relations between Egypt and the KSA were cut due to Saddam Hussein's insult to Egypt when he held a conference for all Arabs and ignored Egypt altogether. The KSA-based and -sponsored Wahabi body called "The Union of the Islamic World" urged Azharite scholars to incite the Egyptian government to imprison or hang us, under the pretext of being an apostate or disbeliever! A conference held in Islamabad presided by the Pakistani (Wahabi) President M. Zia-ul-Haq in 1987, under the auspices of  "The Union of the Islamic World", and attended by a group of Azharite scholars including Dr. Al-Najjar. Attendees of the conference discussed his scandal of a book and our book of analytical study on prophets in the Quran. The attendees gave Dr. Al-Najjar a prize and accused us of being a disbelieving infidel! The Egyptian attendees mentioned this accusation against us to President Mubarak. The same Wahabi union held another conference in Jeddah, attended of course by Dr. Al-Najjar, with the same accusations repeated against us and the call of our being punished somehow. We were the scapegoat to restore the cordial relations between Egypt and the KSA! Dr. Al-Najjar became later on the President of the International Center for Al-Sirah and the Sunna of the Prophet in the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments in 1987, a center established by the KSA in Egypt to refute Quranism advocated by us. The KSA donated four million Egyptian pounds to this center, according to what is published by the Cairo-based newspaper "Al-Lowaa' Al-Islami". Such a center was never to be heard of ever again until now! It had no activities whatsoever. It seems that the four million Egyptian pounds went into the pockets of the Azharite sheikhs and scholars!

Lastly: ISIS

1- Eventually, mountains of religious ignorance begot ISIS terrorist organization.

2- ISIS apply what all were dreamed of by the Najd Brothers of Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud.

3- The Wahabi culture of ISIS is maintained, propagated, and defended by all Azharite sheikhs and scholars. For more than 30 years, Azharite students imbibed ISIS Wahabi culture; that is why some turned into terrorists who kill and destroy, thinking they serve God!  It is ironic that Egyptian governments spend on them billions of Egyptian pounds to teach them the ISIS Wahabi culture and then chase them to imprison and punish them when they apply this culture, the ISIS religion, in real life!

4- Those who attack and refute the culture and religion of ISIS in Egypt is put to prison once accused by contempt of Islam, or rather, by daring to refute the Wahabi religion of ISIS!

5- Even if ISIS ends, more ISIS-like terrorist organizations will emerge, as long as Wahabism thrives!


 

Chapter Two: More than One Hundred Thousand Deities are Worshipped by The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar


Firstly: The deification of the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions within the ISIS Wahabi Ibn Hanbal Sunnite creed:

1- In 'holy' ancient tomes and volumes of the Sunnite creed, we read that the number of the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions is one hundred thousand persons. A companion by their definition is a contemporary person to Prophet Muhammad, who saw him during his lifetime. That is why the Sunnites consider the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions the primary source of the Sunnite creed. The so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions are the ones to whom the so-called hadiths are ascribed to have been narrated by them in oral traditions: (so and so narrated from so and so from that companion who narrated that he heard Prophet Muhammad saying that…etc.). In later eras, clergymen and imams used to scrutinize and examine the narrators' series or sequence so as to verify the so-called veracity and authenticity of hadiths (sayings); yet, all clergymen and imams claim that all the so-called companions can never commit errors in narration! This is deemed deification of the so-called companions. God is the Only One who never errs. Even prophets, the best people, as per Quranic verses, have done mistakes and errors of judgment, and some of such mistakes mentioned in the Quran. Accordingly, the Sunnites make the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions above in stature in comparison to God's prophets! Those companions are now deified; they are being invoked and worshipped as deities! If it is true that their number exceeds 100.000 persons, to which we add the countless imams, sheikhs, and clergymen of the Sunnite creed as well as the founders of doctrines and the fabricators/narrators of the so-called hadiths, such as the famous ones/gods like Malik, Al-Shafei', Al-Bokhari, Moslem, Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn Al-Qaiyyim…until Ibn Abdel-Wahab in the 18th century.

2- All falsehoods of the above are affirmed by the Egyptian (Cairo-based) Azhar institution and its ISIS members among sheikhs and clergymen; all of them declare as renegades, apostates, and disbelievers anyone who dares to criticize the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions, because they are treated as unerring and infallible gods. If criticized, the critic is a one who has forsaken the Sunnite creed. This is reflected in all oral and written statements of the ISIS members of Al-Azhar clergymen and sheikhs. All of them are used to issuing statements to threaten and terrorize anyone who dares to criticize/attack the so-called companions. This is an undeniable fact; no Azharite scholar can deny the existence of such terror and threatening measures in writing. By deification of more than one hundred thousands of persons, ISIS members among Azharite clergymen deny the Quran: God's word or the only holy scripture of Islam. The reason: the Quran mentions in tens of verses the fact that some of the so-called Prophet Muhammad's companions were hypocrites who used to lie and cheat; the Quran promises them of residing eternally in Hell-Fire.

3- This fact cannot bear any sort of compromise or a middle position; one has either to believe in God and His divine message or in countless books of falsehood written by human beings. The Quran includes the fact that the so-called companions are mere mortals, that some of them were good and others have mixed good deeds and bad deeds, and that some of them were traitors, liars, and hypocrites. Would a believer believe the Quran or the outrageous blatant lie that the the so-called companions are all guiltless, unerring, and infallible.

4- ISIS members among Azharite clergymen, sheikhs, and imams cannot deny history; civil-strife battles ensued among the so-called companions after the assassination of the caliph Othman. ISIS members among Azharite clergymen follow now the footsteps of these founding forefathers in their way of intentionally ignoring such civil wars in the scholars' curricula in Al-Azhar institution and in Egyptian media as well. Due to this deliberate ignoring, the Muhammadans in several countries are still living in the quagmire of civil strife today. This is occurring now in Syria and Iraq by ISIS terrorists. This is a continuation of the civil strife that began about 14 centuries ago. Ignoring to refer to the history of civil strife wars and battles among the so-called companions goes on due to their being deified after their death and to the Azharite stance of insistence of their being infallible, unerring, and faultless; to hell with historical accounts, then! It is funny that imams of the Sunnite creed have fabricated certain hadiths in order to prevent tackling and researching the historical accounts narrating this civil strife, such as the hadiths that describe the so-called companions as residing in Paradise immediately after death and their being the guiding poles and examples in daily lives of all Muslims, etc. in contract to the Quranic verses that prove that Prophet Muhammad could never predict the future. In fact, Sunnites are still in the quagmire of this civil strife for the last 14 centuries by following the footsteps of the co-called companions. The hadiths fabricated by them are all based on lying, falsehoods, and contradictions. Examples of this are countless; how come all the co-called companions are in Paradise while there is a hadith that states that if two Muslims fight each other with swords, the killer and the killed are both in Hell?! This so-called hadith makes all of the so-called companions residing forever in Hell.

4- If one reminds the ISIS members among Azharite clergymen of these plain facts, they will have one response or reaction; they would declare one as an apostate disbeliever who has forsaken Islam! They will apply to one their law that punishes in prison whoever taunts or mocks their creed: the ISIS members among Sunnite Wahabi/Salafist Ibn Hanbal creed that is not linked at all to Islam.

Secondly: A Quranic view on the so-called companions:

 We have already published countless articles on our website concerning the so-called companions; please refer to them for more details. Suffice it here for us to state the following points.

1- In 4:105-113 and 8:27, the Quran describes some of the so-called companions as traitors and hypocrites. They have misled Prophet Muhammad in making him defend a criminal; then the Quran warns those who conspire against God and His messenger.

2- Tens of Quranic verses tell us about hypocrites among the so-called companions, especially in chapters that have descended in Yathreb. Contemplating these chapters, we discern two types of hypocrites: one type that had exposed themselves with stances and words. Verses of the Quran have exposed them. The other type is those who concealed so carefully their animosity and hatred toward Islam and never betrayed their true colors in words or actions. They have pretended to be believers and got nearer to the Prophet Muhammad. Verses of the Quran have exposed them as well. Once Muhammad died, divine revelation stopped, and this second type became relentless in showing enmity and conspired against Islam. This type of hypocrites are warned and admonished in the Quran by torment in this life and in the Afterlife: "Among the Desert-Arabs around you there are some hypocrites, and among the inhabitants of Medina too. They have become adamant in hypocrisy. You do not know them, but We know them. We will punish them twice; then they will be returned to a severe torment." (9:101). This verse implies that some of the so-called companions will die as unbelievers and hypocrites and will be punished inevitably in this world and the next.

3- Hypocrites of the time are described along with their feelings and actions in trying to deceive God in 2:8-15, and that their ill-will is a disease inside their hearts that manifests itself during battles and on several occasions; please refer to 8:49, 33:12-61, 47:20-29, and 9:125.

4- Hypocritical companions used to swear by God to defend their stances: "They took their oaths as a screen, and prevented others from God's path. They will have a shameful punishment." (58:16) and "They treat their oaths as a cover, and so they repel others from God's path. Evil is what they do." (63:2). Some of the hypocrites used to pretend to obey Muhammad, and then used lie to him: "They profess obedience, but when they leave your presence, some of them conspire something contrary to what you said. But God writes down what they conspire. So avoid them, and put your trust in God. God is Guardian enough." (4:81). Hence, lying in the name of God and the name of Muhammad started earlier during Muhammad's lifetime and went on for the last 14 centuries until now. God describes such hypocrites as inveterate liars who aim at self-destruction: "Had the gain been immediate, and the journey shorter, they would have followed you; but the distance seemed too long for them. Still they swear by God: "Had we been able, we would have marched out with you." They damn their own souls, and God knows that they are lying. May God pardon you! Why did you give them permission before it became clear to you who are the truthful ones and who are the liars?" (9:42-43).

5- Those hypocritical liars used to find those who believe their falsehoods and lies as true statements. This is exemplified in the story told in the following verses: "Those who perpetrated the slander are a band of you. Do not consider it bad for you, but it is good for you. Each person among them bears his share in the sin. As for him who played the major role-for him is a terrible punishment. Why, when you heard about it, the believing men and women did not think well of one another, and say, "This is an obvious lie"?" (24:11-12) and "When you rumored it with your tongues, and spoke with your mouths what you had no knowledge of, and you considered it trivial; but according to God, it is serious. When you heard it, you should have said, "It is not for us to repeat this. By Your glory, this is a serious slander." God cautions you never to return to the like of it, if you are believers. "(24:15-17). Hypocrites in their conspiracies and slanders used to find attentive listeners among the believers: "Had they mobilized with you, they would have added only to your difficulties, and they would have spread rumors in your midst, trying to sow discord among you. Some of you are avid listeners to them. God is Aware of the wrongdoers." (9:47).

6- The Quran repeats in many verses the notion that God is the Witness concerning the lies, falsehoods, and conspiracies of such hypocrites: "Then there are those who establish a mosque to cause harm, and disbelief, and disunity among the believers, and as an outpost for those who fight God and His Messenger. They will swear: "Our intentions are nothing but good." But God bears witness that they are liars." (9:107), "Have you not considered those who act hypocritically? They say to their brethren who disbelieved among the People of the Book, "If you are evicted, we will leave with you, and will not obey anyone against you; and should anyone fight you, we will certainly support you." But God bears witness that they are liars." (59:11), "When the hypocrites come to you, they say, "We bear witness that you are God's Messenger." God knows that you are His Messenger, and God bears witness that the hypocrites are liars." (63:1). ISIS members of Azharite clergymen insist upon refusing God's statements in the Quran by insisting that the so-called companions are unerring, faultless, guiltless, inviolable, and infallible. If one states the Quranic facts mentioned above in this article, one is accused by contempt of the Sunnite creed by the ISIS members among clergymen of Al-Azhar!

One last question:

When the Quran refutes and contradicts any notions inherited from Middle-Ages imams and clergymen, a real believer must side with the Quranic truth. In contrast to this, ISIS members of Azharite clergymen do the exact opposite by siding with inherited notions and doctrines and ignoring the Quran!

The best discourse:

 "It is a noble Quran. In a well-protected Book. None can grasp it except the purified. A revelation from the Lord of the Worlds. Is it this discourse that you take so lightly? And you make it your livelihood to deny it? "(56:77-82). God says nothing but the Truth, even if ISIS members among Azharite clergymen hate this Truth.         


 

Chapter Three: The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar and Confusion

Confused Sheikhs (1/5)

Introduction:

1- Azharite ISIS members who control Al-Azhar institution have speedily issued a statement in the name of Al-Azhar institution concerning media hubbub of those who deny the existence of the so-called 'torment of the tomb' and the so-called 'paradise of the tomb' and hadiths concerning both notions in the Sunnite Wahabi creed. They have denounced the several journalist articles that confuse the ideas of people concerning religion, and which cast doubts on ''torment of the tomb'', the 'revered' and 'honored' companions of Prophet Muhammad by detracting their 'high' stature. The statement issued expressed concern and anxiety about raising such topics in Egyptian media to distract Al-Azhar institution from its mission or message and the major causes of the worldwide 'Muslims' that Al-Azhar bear above its shoulders. Apparently, it seems that Al-Azhar is too busy to leave its 'sacred' mission and duty toward Egypt, religion, and people to refute journalist articles that are far from the real issues, grievances, and troubles of the nation.

2- Apparently, Azharite ISIS members/sheikhs controlling Al-Azhar have been trying to justify their inability to defend the myths of the so-called ''torment of the tomb'' and the deification and worship of the mortal dead persons called companions of Muhammad. Such myths they revere are more important than anything else, even the mere endeavor to refute any doubts! One might wonder what are the issues, grievances, and troubles of the nation that the Azharite ISIS members concerned about?! It is this very nation that can barely bear the burden of the existence of Al-Azhar institution that forces it to descend into a bottomless pit: Al-Azhar institution curricula and ignorance morphed its students into ISIS members! The Wahabi religion taught there is the very one of ISIS! Generations of terrorists and potential terrorists, of both genders, are being graduated from Al-Azhar University! They are the ISIS members of today and of the future. Al-Azhar institution ignorant ISIS members/sheikhs were busy for more than 40 years spreading, defending, and propagating extremist thought of the Sunnite/Wahabi creed contrary to Islam: the Quran. Even when few people in the Egyptian media have voiced some refutations and criticisms of some myths and falsehoods defended for years by Azharite ignorant ISIS sheikhs from any sort of discussion, refutation, and criticism, they Azharites felt great alarm. They threatened, attacked, and rebuked those who cast doubts on their ancient hallowed myths, while never uttering a single syllable concerning the victims of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. They were stirred and their eyes were seared ONLY when their mythological figure is denied and doubted: the bald, hairless snake tormenting the dead in their tombs! It is as if this hairless reptile embodies the real issues, grievances, and troubles of the nation! What a comedy! It is a farce theatrical piece! All issued Azharite statements are sources of great humor and laughter! Yet, one would laugh until one is on the rink of shedding tears!

3- The Azharite ISIS members' statement mentions their lamenting the fact that several journalist articles confuse the ideas of people concerning religion! Let us here discuss the word ''confusion'' and its derivatives ''confuse'' and ''confused'', for it exposes their mentality and man-made creed, and it is repeated in their literature and writings as a sword pointed against any critics and detractors. It is high time to discuss their concept of confusion in this research, in order to know from the Quran the current stance of the Azharite ISIS members toward real Islam: the Quran.

Firstly: the source and location of confusion: types of people based on faith and belief:

1- In the Quranic Chapter 2, God mentions three types of people in terms of belief or faith in the heart, in all eras and locations: the pious certain believers, the openly disbelievers, and lastly the hypocrites. The believers are described as follows: "This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous. Those who believe in the unseen, and perform the prayers, and give from what We have provided for them. And those who believe in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed before you, and are certain of the Hereafter.These are upon guidance from their Lord. These are the successful." (2:2-5). The description of the openly disbelievers is as follows: "As for those who disbelieve-it is the same for them, whether you have warned them, or have not warned them-they do not believe. God has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. They will have a severe torment." (2:6-7). The last category, the hypocrites, are to be found in all societies in all times and climes, as long as there are people on Earth: "Among the people are those who say, "We believe in God and in the Last Day," but they are not believers. They seek to deceive God and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves, though they are not aware.  In their hearts is sickness, and God has increased their sickness. They will have a painful punishment because of their denial." (2:8-10). In short, we have two groups of people: believers and non-believers (overtly or hypocrites).

2- We understand here the source of confusion; belief in one's heart is of two types: a certain staunch one and a confused one filled with doubts and hesitation. The confused one is found within hesitant hearts filled with uncertainties, NOT within hearts filled 100% with firm belief in God, His divine book, and the Last Day. Hesitant belief suffers from confusion when its myths, lies, fabrications, and falsehoods are discussed, criticized, and refuted.

Secondly: there is no confusion in the certain and firm belief of the pious ones:

1- Truly faithful belief of the devout people is unshakable; doubts, uncertainty, guesses and wishful thinking never cause any sort of confusion to it. Rereading 2:2-5 about the pious ones, we discern that the very first description of the believers is that they never doubt the Quran. They believe in all things unknown and unseen mentioned in it by God who revealed this book. True believers perform prayers and pay zakat alms for the sake of God alone, devoutly and piously, in their peaceful demeanor toward people. Believers believe in all divine books and messages in general and in the Last Day, the Day of Resurrection, with no doubts whatsoever. Hence, there is no doubt in the Quran and the Last Day: this is the staunch unshakable belief of all true believers in Islam. 

2- In their belief in the Quran, believers never need, require, or believe in another discourse in religion, as per the Quranic verses themselves. "Have they not observed the government of the heavens and the earth, and all the things that God created, and that their time may have drawn near? Which message, besides this, will they believe in?" (7:185).  "Woe on that Day to the rejecters. In what message, beyond this, will they believe?" (77:49-50). "These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe?" (45:6).

3- Believing in the Last Day entails that true believers believe in their hearts that God alone is the Owner of the Day of Resurrection; He is the Sole Source of safety in the Last Day, and no mortals can help, aid, or give benefit to other mortals in that Last Day. "But what will convey to you what the Day of Judgment is? Then again, what will convey to you what the Day of Judgment is? The Day when no soul will avail another soul anything; and the decision on that Day is God's." (82:17-19). Believers have both belief in the heart concerning faith tenets in the Quran and the belief in terms of demeanor; i.e., peaceful and charitable behavior toward others, in piety and devoutness to God, in public and in private, and they perform good deeds to prepare themselves to the Day of Judgment. Real believers utter the truth to seek gratification of God alone and never care about blame and rebuke from people, even if the truth is hateful to the disbelievers and ISIS terrorists.  Such type of pious, certain, firm, ad staunch believers never get confused about their faith.

4- Those pious believers believe in the Quranic insights from the Lord Our God and seek guidance only in His book. "This is an illumination for mankind, and guidance, and mercy for people who believe with certainty." (45:20). "…These are the Signs of the Quran-a book that makes things clear. Guidance and good news for the believers. Those who observe the prayers, and give charity regularly, and are certain of the Hereafter." (27:1-3).

5- In contrast, disbelievers in the Quran base their faith on man-made backward ignorant legislations. Believers in the Quran need nothing but the divine sharia legislation; it is enough for them in all  matters of religion. "Is it the laws of the time of ignorance that they desire? Who is better than God in judgment for people who are certain?" (5:50). Of course, Azharite ISIS members deny Quranic facts. The pious ones know for sure that the divine discourse of the Quran is the only source of mercy and guidance for them; whereas the confused ones focus on decorated words and man-made discourse to persuade others to forsake the Quran all their lives, and if such confused ones hear he Quran alone with no man-made lies and falsehoods, they move away in disgust, just like ISIS members. "These are the Verses of the Wise Book. A guide and a mercy for the righteous. Those who observe the prayer, and pay the obligatory charity, and are certain of the Hereafter. These are upon guidance from their Lord. These are the successful.  Among the people is he who trades in distracting tales; intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God's way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment. And when Our Verses are recited to him, he turns away in pride, as though he did not hear them, as though there is deafness in his ears. So inform him of a painful punishment." (31:2-7). The pious faithful ones have no doubts about the Quran and believe in the One God and the One Book as the only discourse to believe in Islam: the Quran, whereas the confused ones among sinful liars, evil and corrupt clergymen, and murderous ISIS members insist on neglecting and ignoring the Quranic verses in favor of man-made books, discourses, and narrations. "The revelation of the Book is from God, the Exalted in Might, the Wise. In the heavens and the earth are proofs for the believers.  And in your own creation, and in the creatures He scattered, are signs for people of firm faith.  And in the alternation of night and day, and in the sustenance God sends down from the sky, with which He revives the earth after its death, and in the circulation of the winds, are marvels for people who reason.  These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe? Woe to every sinful liar. Who hears God's revelations being recited to him, yet he persists arrogantly, as though he did not hear them. Announce to him a painful punishment." (45:2-8).

6- The Quranic text is clear ONLY to those who seek guidance in it as the sole scripture and only source of guidance in God's religion; it is the only divine word of God. "We have made the verses clear for people who are certain." (2:118). Hence, those who seek devoutly and sincerely the guidance in the Quran and seek to please God deserve to gain this divine guidance; in contrast, those who lie to God and ascribe falsehoods to His religion deny the Quran. This is what is done by Azharite ISIS members. God says about their evil route the following: "And who does greater wrong than he who fabricates lies and attributes them to God, or calls the truth a lie when it has come to him? Is there not in Hell a dwelling for the blasphemers?" (29:68). God says about those who sincerely seek guidance the following: "As for those who strive for Us-We will guide them in Our ways. God is with the doers of good." (29:69). 

7- Muhammad declared his certainty and faith in God and in the Quran, and that he cannot torment and punish the disbelievers around him, as this is left to God alone: "Say, "I stand on clear evidence from my Lord, and you have rejected Him. I do not possess what you seek me to hasten; the decision belongs solely to God. He states the truth, and He is the Best of Judges." Say, "If I possessed what you seek me to hasten, the matter between you and me would have been settled. God is well aware of the unjust."" (6:57-58).

8- Noah declared his certainty and faith in God "He said, "O my people, Have you considered? If I stand on clear evidence from my Lord, and He has given me a mercy from Himself, but you were blind to it, can we compel you to accept it, even though you dislike it?"" (11:28). Saleh was told by his people that they doubt his call to God; they were confused and not sure how come they ought to forsake the staple traditions of their forefathers. They remind us of the Azharite ISIS members who adhere to the notions of their forefathers and discard the Quran: "They said, "O Saleh, we had hopes in you before this. Are you trying to prevent us from worshiping what our parents worship? We are in serious doubt regarding what you are calling us to." He said, "O my people, have you considered? If I stand upon clear evidence from my Lord, and He has given me mercy from Him, who would protect me from God, if I disobeyed Him? You add nothing for me except loss."" (11:62-63).

9- Accordingly, belief and faith in one's heart and mind divide people into two categories: those who are certain and firm in their belief and those who are doubtful and confused, following their whims and uncertainties of the route of the devil: "Is he who stands upon evidence from his Lord, like someone whose evil deed is made to appear good to him? And they follow their own desires?" (47:14). Let us discuss below the confused doubtful ones of Azharite ISIS members.

Quranic Facts Confuse Azharite ISIS Members (2/5)

 We mention below these facts that confuse Azharite ISIS members and they insist on ignoring them.

1- Azharite ISIS members do not know that it is the duty of believers to believe in heart and mind that divinity and worship are exclusively for God, with no mortal partners. No sanctification or deification is to be given to any other person or thing. No one can worship the creator and His creatures at the same time; there is no room for that in hearts of true believers.

2- Azharite ISIS members do not know that disbelievers hold little useless belief, in their hearts, in God by sanctifying and deifying mortal partners beside God in their worship acts. These mortal deities associated with God by polytheists include people like Muhammad; this prophet is being worshipped by all the Muhammadans by inserting his name in the testimony of Islam, in prayers, in the call to prayers, in sharia legislation, and in pilgrimage. Their polytheistic notions include the idea of intercession; Muhammad is their mediator before God to save them from Hell to make then enter Paradise! It is as if Muhammad is the owner and creator of the Day of Judgment! How is he supposed to change the judgment of God concerning sinners?! Another spread falsehood is ascribing to Muhammad millions of sayings (hadiths) two centuries after his death, as if the Quran is not sufficient to us. To aggravate matters, the Muhammadans claim that such lies and falsehoods called Sunna replaces the Quranic legislations in religious matters! The amount of belief in God, in this disbelieving heart, is so little; deities and gods among mortals (saints, prophets, companions of Muhammad, historical figures, and Muhammad's daughter's progeny) are so many and monopolizes the sanctity and worship due to God alone. Hence, the Muhammadans never believe in God alone; they must add other mortal gods and deities among dead persons. When they enter into Hell, they will ask pardon, and they will be told in Hell a response in the negative. "They will say, "Our Lord, you made us die twice, and twice you gave us life. Now we acknowledge our sins. Is there any way out?" That is because when God alone was called upon, you disbelieved; but when others were associated with Him, you believed. Judgment rests with God the Sublime, the Majestic." (40:12).

3- Azharite ISIS members do not know that all prophets and messengers of God, as per the Quran, were sent with one message: There is no God but Allah. Azharite ISIS members/sheikhs deny and ignore the Quran by inventing the devilish revelation in hope to supplant the divine one by claiming it replaces the Quran. Azharite ISIS members do not believe in the Quran unless in the so-called Sunna with it, ascribed falsely to Muhammad after his death. God's scripture, the Quran, is not enough for them. That is why they are confused in their faith, even when one reminds them of the verses that refute their lies and those of Qorayish tribe: "Does it not suffice them that We revealed to you the Scripture, which is recited to them? In that is mercy and a reminder for people who believe. Say, "God suffices as witness between you and me. He knows everything in the heavens and the Earth. Those who believe in vanity and reject God-it is they who are the losers."" (29:51-52). Azharite ISIS members do not acknowledge the Quran as the only sufficient, unique, and sole source of guidance in Islam and reject God's words on that subject! That is why if they are to die before rejecting their falsehoods and adhering to the Quran alone, they will certainly be among losers in the Last Day.

4- Azharite ISIS members hate very much and get furious if they listened to a sermon containing Quranic verses alone, with no hadiths and theological notions of ancient scholars. The reason: the Quranic facts and tenets confuse them! These verses apply to them: "When you read the Quran, We place between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter an invisible barrier. And We drape veils over their hearts, preventing them from understanding it, and heaviness in their ears. And when you mention your Lord alone in the Quran, they turn their backs in aversion." (17:45-46). Azharite ISIS members/imams in sermons preach every Friday in pulpits, and whenever they utter the name of God, Allah, no one among the audience glorify the name of God; they remain silent although glorification of God is an act of worship affirmed in the Quran, but often forgotten by most people, as we have mentioned in detail in a previous article. The reason: the Muhammadans' mania of worshipping, deifying, and sanctifying Muhammad; they enthusiastically glorify the prophet's name once uttered by preachers in sermons. They wrongly assume that this is an act of worship, as we have mentioned in detail in a previous article. True believers are described in the Quran as follows: "The believers are those whose hearts tremble when God is mentioned, and when His revelations are recited to them, they strengthen them in faith, and upon their Lord they rely." (8:2). Hence, the Muhammadans love, worship, and sanctify and glorify Muhammad more than God! What is worse, if a sermon preached without mentioning the prophet's name, they feel animosity! They rejoice only in mentioning a lot the prophet's name. this verse applies to them: "When God alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter shrink with resentment. But when those other than Him are mentioned, they become filled with joy." (39:45).

5- Azharite ISIS members do not know that the main issue of paramount importance in Islam; i.e. the Quran alone, is the belief in God alone without sanctification and worship of any other gods or deities. All Quranic stories of prophets and messengers clearly show that their call consisted of one clear message: There is no God but Allah. Other mortal deities are to be discarded. "We never sent a messenger before you without inspiring him that: "There is no God but We, so worship Us."" (21:25). Hence, their divine message linking point is to reject polytheism. The Qorayish tribe urged Muhammad to acknowledge its saints and deities they claimed that they drew them nearer to God, but the Quranic response  came with devotion in worship is for God alone: "The revelation of the Book is from God, the Mighty and Wise. We sent down to you the Book with the truth, so serve God, devoting your religion to Him. Is not to God that sincere faith is due? As for those who take guardians besides Him, "We only worship them that they may bring us nearer to God." God will judge between them regarding their differences. God does not guide the lying blasphemer." (39:1-3). God told Muhammad to say to them the following: "Say, "I was commanded to serve God, devoting my religion exclusively to Him. And I was commanded to be the first of those who submit."  Say, "I fear, if I disobeyed my Lord, the punishment of a horrendous Day." Say, "It is God I worship, sincere in my faith in Him." "But you can worship whatever you wish besides Him." Say, "The losers are those who lose their souls and their people on the Day of Resurrection." That is indeed the obvious loss." (39:11-15). Facing their urging, God told him to say the following: "Say, "Is it other than God you instruct me to worship, you ignorant ones?" It was revealed to you, and to those before you, that if you idolize, your works will be in vain, and you will be of the losers." (39:64-65).

6- Azharite ISIS members do not know that the main issue of paramount importance in Islam is to believe in God alone  with no other deities or saints; Hud was told by his people in arrogance that they reject this notion: "They said, "Did you come to us to make us worship God alone, and abandon what our ancestors used to worship? Then bring us what you threaten us with, if you are truthful."" (7:70). Hence, they told Hud that they would never forsake their forefathers' notions and gods: the staples and ancient notions, just like Azharite scholars!

7- Azharite ISIS members do not know that disbelieving ancestors used to create monikers and names to their deities to frighten others who shun, criticize, doubt, or deny these deities. Noah's people are an example of that: "And they said, "Do not give up your gods; do not give up Wadd, nor Souwa, nor Yaghoos, and Yaooq, and Nassra." (71:23). Saleh said to his people: "He said, "Condemnation and wrath have befallen you from your Lord. Are you arguing with me over names, which you and your ancestors invented, for which God sent down no authority? Just wait; I am waiting with you."" (7:71). Joseph said in Egypt: ""You do not worship, besides Him, except names you have named, you and your ancestors, for which God has sent down no authority. Judgment belongs to none but God. He has commanded that you worship none but Him. This is the right religion, but most people do not know." (12:40). God says in the Quran for Arabs in Arabia: "Have you considered Al-Lat and Al-Uzza? And Manat, the third one, the other? Are you to have the males, and He the females? What a bizarre distribution. These are nothing but names, which you have devised, you and your ancestors, for which God sent down no authority. They follow nothing but assumptions, and what the ego desires, even though guidance has come to them from their Lord." (53:19-23). Azharite ISIS members have followed the footsteps of the disbelieving ancestors; they worship names of mortals, like Al-Bokhary. If one would criticize Al-Bokhary, they would threaten one with the Egyptian law against contempt of religion, because they suppose that Al-Bokhary is the pillar of Islam! Yet, if one would curse Ibn Berzaweih in Tahrir Square, Cairo, using loudspeakers, no one would care, though Ibn Berzaweih was the real first name of Al-Bokhary!

8- Azharite ISIS members do not know that true faithful belief does not contain any sort of confusion, and it makes one denounces his people the polytheists, Azharite ISIS members and otherwise, until they believe in the One God alone, in all eras and locations, like Abraham: "You have had an excellent example in Abraham and those with him; when they said to their people, "We are quit of you, and what you worship apart from God. We denounce you. Enmity and hatred has surfaced between us and you, forever, until you believe in God alone…" (60:4). Azharite ISIS members refuse to admit that the main issue in the Quran is to believe in God alone with no other deities.

9-  Azharite ISIS members do not know that if they die while retaining their polytheism, they will regret it in vain, when it is too late, and they will try to declare in the Day of Judgment their belief in God alone, but they will be among the losers: "Then, when they witnessed Our might, they said, "We believe in God alone, and we reject what we used to associate with Him." But their faith could not help them once they witnessed Our might. This has been God's way of dealing with His servants. And there and then the disbelievers lost." (40:84-85).

10- Azharite ISIS members do not know that confused belief or faith is similar to disbelief and unbelief; it is little faith deserves the curse of God, as happened with disbelievers among the Israelites: "And they said, "Our hearts are sealed." Rather, God has cursed them for their ingratitude. They have little faith." (2:88). "…But God has cursed them for their disbelief; they do not believe except a little." (4:46). "But for their violation of their covenant, and their denial of God's revelations, and their killing of the prophets unjustly, and their saying, "Our minds are closed." In fact, God has sealed them for their disbelief, so they do not believe, except for a few." (4:155). Hence, their belief was not sufficient, and they used to brag of it, and in the afterlife, this little faith will be of no use to them. "…Wretched is what your faith commands you to do, if you are believers." (2:93). "Say, "On the day of victory, the faith of those who disbelieved will be of no avail to them, and they will not be granted respite."" (32:29).

Lastly:

1- We conclude from the above that Azharite ISIS members disbelieve in God and deny His Book and His Holy Names and Epithets.

2- We are still advising Azharite ISIS members to believe in the One God alone with no ascribed partners, deities, associates, mediators, and intercessors and to believe in His Holy Names and Epithets mentioned only in the Quran. They should stop sanctifying tombs, buildings, and dead persons, as well as names of dead personalities. We warn them against residence in Eternal Hell-Fire: "We have destined for Hell multitudes of jinn and humans. They have hearts with which they do not understand. They have eyes with which they do not see. They have ears with which they do not hear. These are like cattle. In fact, they are further astray. These are the heedless. To God belong the Most Beautiful Names, so call Him by them, and disregard those who blaspheme His names. They will be repaid for what they used to do." (7:179-180).

3- We are still warning them against misinterpreting Quranic verses and distorting intentionally the meanings of them by their endless mountains of new and ancient tomes, volumes, and books of theology, interpretation, etc. such falsehoods form the entire curricula in Azhar University departments of 'Islamic' studies, sharia, theology, etc. that is to say, they are specializing in falsehoods against the Quran instead of reflecting, contemplating, and researching the Quran text itself. God warns us all: "Those who despise Our revelations are not hidden from Us. Is he who is hurled into the Fire better? Or he who arrives safely on the Day of Resurrection? Do as you please; He is Seeing of everything you do." (41:40). God says nothing but the Truth, even if Azharite ISIS members and sheikhs hate that truth.

Confused Sheikhs Entrapped by Doubts (3/5)

1- Polytheists live in constant doubts; pious monotheistic believers staunchly and firmly believe with no doubts at all in the Quran. Confusion and doubt are basic features of the little faith of disbelievers and polytheists. Faith of the pious ones is based on the absolute truth: the Quran. Such descriptions are found in the Quran in several verses. This is manifested in terms of the belief in the Quran and the Last Day; disbelievers are doubters, and believers are 100% sure that the the Quran is the divine message from God. The disbelievers discard the Quran, and putting it aside, they seek other discourses in religion. This started centuries ago; in the lifetime of Muhammad when the Quran was being revealed. The Quran refutes the accusations of Qorayish tribe accusations leveled against Muhammad and against the Quran itself and the doubts concerning the Last Day. "So be patient. The promise of God is true. And do not let those, who lack certainty, belittle you." (30:60). "Or did they create the heavens and the earth? In fact, they are not certain." (52:36). "And when it was said, "The promise of God is true, and of the Hour there is no doubt," you said, "We do not know what the Hour is; we think it is only speculation; we are not convinced."" (45:32).

2- We have in the Quran the criteria to judge real, faithful certain belief: "The believers are those who believe in God and His Messenger, and then have not doubted, and strive for God's cause with their wealth and their persons. These are the sincere." (49:15). Really true and faithful pious ones do not have doubts concerning the Quran and the Last Day; that is why they endeavor and do their best to perform good deeds for the sake of God. Hence, true faith leads to, and is linked to, good deeds, which in turn are signs of true faith without doubts whatsoever. Doubts, confusion, and hesitation that tarnish little faith, or lack of it, in the hearts of the hypocrites whose faith is overt in their hypocritical acts, as they lack true faith and certainty in hearts and minds, and in their behavior and stances. This applies to the status of hypocrites during the lifetime of Muhammad and in all later eras until our modern age. In their stance against participation in defensive wars, we find the following verse: "Only those who do not believe in God and the Last Day ask you for exemption. Their hearts are full of doubts, so they waver in their doubts." (9:45). This verse tackles their mosque taken as location for conspiring against believers: "The structure which they have built will remain questionable in their hearts, until their hearts are stopped. God is Knowing and Wise." (9:110). These verses apply to hypocrites of today and in all eras; that is why the present tense is used to show this continuity. Their hearts will be filled with doubts. Mosques used as conspirators' centers to concoct and plan terror and thefts still thrive all over the planet Earth until now! Mosques of today spread and propagate falsehoods against God and the Quran: real Islam. Flagrant examples are mosques in Syria and Iraq; they are being used as military targets and locations!

3- Confusion, hesitation, and skepticism are the main features in the history of polytheists and disbelievers, before, during, and after the revelation of the Quran. The Quran remains the very last divine message to humanity; and it asserts the doubting nature of disbelievers before the time of the Quranic revelation. "Has not the story reached you, of those before you, the people of Noah, and Aad, and Thamood-and those after them? None knows them except God. Their messengers came to them with the clear proofs, but they tried to silence them, and said, "We reject what you are sent with, and we are in serious doubt regarding what you are calling us to."" (14:9). "They said, "O Saleh, we had hopes in you before this. Are you trying to prevent us from worshiping what our parents worship? We are in serious doubt regarding what you are calling us to." He said, "O my people, have you considered? If I stand upon clear evidence from my Lord, and He has given me mercy from Him, who would protect me from God, if I disobeyed Him? You add nothing for me except loss."" (11:62-63). The believer in the retinue of Moses' Pharaoh preached to them to remind them of Joseph as follows: "Joseph had come to you with clear revelations, but you continued to doubt what he came to you with. Until, when he perished, you said, "God will never send a messenger after him." Thus God leads astray the outrageous skeptic." (40:34). Hence, they doubted even joseph before though he helped Egypt in times of famine to come. The same skepticism is repeated within the Israelites with their prophets. "We gave Moses the Scripture, but it was disputed. Were it not for a prior word from your Lord, it would have been settled between them. They are in serious doubt concerning it." (11:110). "They became divided only after knowledge came to them, out of resentment among themselves. Were it not for a predetermined decision from your Lord, judgment would have been pronounced between them. Indeed, those who were made to inherit the Book after them are in grave doubt about it." (42:14). ''We gave Moses the Book, but disputes arose concerning it. Were it not for a prior decree from your Lord, judgment would have been pronounced between them. But they are in perplexing doubt concerning it.'' (41:45). Qorayish tribe polytheists followed the footsteps of these bad ancient people! They felt envious toward Muhammad by saying: "Was the message sent down to him, out of all of us…" (38:8). This is because of their skepticism: "… they are doubtful of My warning. In fact, they have not yet tasted My punishment." (38:8). As a respond to their doubts, God orders Muhammad to reject their gods and deities: "Say, "O people, if you are in doubt about my religion-I do not serve those you serve apart from God. But I serve God, the one who will terminate your lives. And I was commanded to be of the believers."" (10:104). The verse that sums up the religious life of Qorayish polytheists is as follows: "Yet they play around in doubt." (44:9).

4- The queries raised here are as follows: Did the devils tender their resignations after the completion of the revelation of the Quran? Did skepticism and confusion end forever as far as creeds and tenets are concerned?! The answer to both queries is definitely NO. the evidence to support this answer is the Quranic fact that hypocrites surrounded Muhammad all the time in Yathreb; God warns them against residence in the bottom of Hell-Fire. Hence, skepticism and confusion increased definitely once Muhammad died, and they both have been propagated, spread, and infiltrated everywhere until both features have become the basic features among the Muhammadans past and present. This is asserted by the fact that they have been subdivided into doctrines, denominations, and sub-groups; civil strife goes on between the Sunnites and the Shiites for 14 centuries and until now! Within such wars, we find that imams, clergymen, theologians, and 'spiritual' leaders as well as soldiers among the masses are entangled in such on-going strife. Within such historical and modern context, ISIS terrorists emerged with their own clergymen and soldiers, based on the traditions and tomes of the Ibn Hanbal/Sunnite/Salafist/Wahabi creed. When we, Quranists, call ISIS members to use the Quran as the sole criterion to judge, sort, discard, and refute all traditions of the Sunnite creed, they feel perplexed and confused, because they do not believe in the Quran in the first place. Such stance against the Quran will remain until the end of the world; there will be such people who disbelieve in it and claim overtly to be 'Muslims'! Losers in the Day of Judgment are those who will enter into Hell as a result of this. Among the dwellers of Hell will be the disbelievers whose hearts are filled with skepticism among other sins: "Throw into Hell every stubborn disbeliever.Preventer of good, aggressor, doubter." (50:24-25).

One last question remains to be posed to the Azharite ISIS members/sheikhs: Does this transient and temporary worldly existence, with its wealth, posts, material comfort, and possessions, deserve to lose Eternal Paradise and to dwell in Eternal Hell because of it?

Azharite ISIS Members who doubt the Quran and the Last Day (4/5)

1- Polytheists and disbelievers, as well as the vast majority of human beings past, present, and future, doubt the Last Day. "In fact, their knowledge of the Hereafter is confused. In fact, they are in doubt about it. In fact, they are blind to it." (27:66). "Indeed, the Hour is coming; there is no doubt about it; but most people do not believe." (40:59). The Quran repeats that the really faithful ones should NOT cast doubt on the coming Day of Resurrection: see 3:25, 4:87, 6:12, 52:7, 45:26,  18:21, and 22:5-10. Real believers repeat the following verse: "Our Lord, You will gather the people for a Day in which there is no doubt. God will never break His promise" (3:9).

2- The Quran is often described within its verses that it has no doubts about it; the challenge to procure something similar to it still goes on. "And if you are in doubt about what We have revealed to Our servant, then produce a chapter like these, and call your witnesses apart from God, if you are truthful." (2:23). Here is a general address from God to all people: "This Quran could not have been produced by anyone other than God. In fact, it is a confirmation of what preceded it, and an elaboration of the Book. There is no doubt about it-it is from the Lord of the Universe." (10:37).

3- Separate Arabic letters in the openings of Quranic chapters have been mysteries for centuries; yet, Quranists have discovered its numerical miraculous nature recently. These letters assert that there cannot be doubt concerning the source of the Quran as divine, not human. This sequence of verses asserts this: "Alif, Lam, Meem. The revelation of the Book, without a doubt, is from the Lord of the Universe. Yet they say, "He made it up." In fact, it is the Truth from your Lord, to warn a people who received no warner before you, that they may be guided." (32:1-3).

4- Not to be skeptic about the Quran entails the same stance toward the Last Day; let us remember the opening verses of the Quranic Chapter 2: "Alif, Lam, Meem. This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous. Those who believe in the unseen, and perform the prayers, and give from what We have provided for them. And those who believe in what was revealed to you and in what were revealed before you, and are certain of the Hereafter. These are upon guidance from their Lord. These are the successful." (2:1-5). Here, undoubtedness of the pious believers is linked to both the Quran and the Last Day. Then, 2:6-7 tackle the disbelievers who proclaim their lack of faith openly, and then 2:8-20 tackle the hypocrites who lack faith but say otherwise to deceive and conspire against believers, and they undermine, mock, and cast doubts on the Quran. Such states, hypocrisy, unbelief, and belief occur sometimes interchangeably to most people, and such states might continue or discontinue within one given person. Hence, confusion, doubt, skepticism will remain as long as there is life on our planet, before, during, and after the revelation of the Quran, and that is why the Quran repeats tackling such subjects. Such states and features in 2:1-20 will go on, until the end of the world, in all eras and locations. Hence the staunch belief in the Quran is linked directly to the staunch belief in the Last Day.

5- Some claim that the Muhammadans believe in, and do not deny or reject, the Quran. Quranists beg to differ; we assert that the Muhammadans believe only in the 'volume' of the Quran, NOT its verses. That is to say, the Muhammadans sanctify the paper and the hard cover of it; they assume it is a 'holy' practice to put it everywhere in houses, companies, indoors in general, in vehicles, etc. to be sworn upon and to obtain the so-called Baraka (i.e., Arabic for blessings). They use the tome itself, as a physical object or thing, as an amulet against accidents and the evil envious eyes by hanging it on walls (in the form of verses written in calligraphy in paintings and pictures) and putting it on desks and other surfaces, and to give the overt appearance of piety! All these blasphemous practices spread because of the professionals who specialize in gaining money via the man-made creeds, ascribed to Islam by force, who control Arab societies; we mean all types of clergymen, imams, theologians, sheikhs, and religious institutions within all countries of the Muhammadans: who are subdivided into three main types: the Sunnites, the Shiites, and the Sufis. The criterion in judging their belief in the Quran or rather lack of it is when we, Quranists, demand from them to use the Quran as the sole criterion to examine and scrutinize their notions inherited by their ancestors among the three types of the Muhammadans. Using the Quran as a measure stick or criterion is a religious duty mentioned in the Quran: ""Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord. So do not be of those who doubt." (6:114). This duty aims at cleansing one's heart from any deviance or misguidance; real believer who seek guidance submit to the divine verses of God. In contrast, disbelievers reject the Quranic verses with animosity and hostility in favor of inherited traditional notions of the Muhamadans; hence, their doubts, skepticism, and confusion thrive in their hearts and minds. Eventually, they mislead others from the route of the Quran and urge them to prefer tomes, volumes, and books of ancient mortals instead. This crime is done until now by Azharite ISIS members/sheikhs.

6- In books of Al-Bokhary, we read heretic notions against the Quranic verses combined with denying Quranic facts concerning the Last Day. Adherents to books of Al-Bokhary urge others with all their might to believe in such books; thus, they deny the Quran: the only discourse in Islam. They discard God's Word in favor of man-made books! That is why Azharite sheikhs prefer opinions Al-Bokhary even when such opinions contradict the Quran. This is sheer casting doubt on and undermining the Quran, and rejection of God and Islam. Al-Bokhary books propagate the falsehood of the Hereafter intercession of mortals (prophets) for the sake of mortals (people). This contradicts the Quran that asserts the fact that God alone is the Master of the Day of Judgment; see 1:4. Hence, the Last Day is based absolute justice with no room for nepotism: intercessors and mediators on behalf of people! Thus, Al-Bokhary denied the Quran and those who follow his footsteps commit the same error; i.e. the ISIS members of Al-Azhar institution.

7- We reassert here that belief in the Quran and the Last Day is not a mere slogan or banner; rather, it is a stance reflected in behavior and practical demeanor. Hypocrisy might deceive others, not God: "Among the people are those who say, "We believe in God and in the Last Day," but they are not believers. They seek to deceive God and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves, though they are not aware." (2:8-9). This is shown in Azharite people position toward us since 1977 until now. They have persecuted us using their influence and authority when we have called them to return to the Quran as the sole criterion to judge all their notions and practices. They have their stance, and we have ours. Faith or doubt vis-à-vis the Quran and the Last Day are decided thus between them and us. We and they have our separate stances that are manifested and registered; in journalist articles, in media, in writing, and in news of persecution, torture, and incarceration. Eventually, the abject ignorance and the polytheism of the Azharite sheikhs and their convoluted notions concerning the Quran leading to its rejection and denying by them, and thus denying the Last Day, are all applied practically on the ground by ISIS terrorists; they apply the curricula of traditional old tomes taught at Al-Azhar University! We assert in several articles the dangerous nature of the man-made creed names the Sunnite/Wahabi creed of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Taymiyya which is the same creed of ISIS now. Using the Quran as the sole criterion, this creed is easily refuted and it is clear that Islam as a religion is NOT related to this Wahabi/Sunnite creed at all. Yet, ISIS sheikhs of Azhar insist in a statement that any sort of reasoning and using one's mind to contemplate the Quran will cause confusion to the general public! Indeed, the only confusion is theirs, with their disbelief! Down with them all!

8- Confusion sheikhs of Azhar in all eras went through three stages related to Al-Bokhary; 1) the age of sanctifying and worshipping Al-Bokhary (from the Mameluke era until recently in the 20th century), 2) the emergence of Quranists since the late 1970s who criticize books of Al-Bokhary, as well as all the so-called Sunna, hadiths, and fiqh, using the Quranic verses, and 3) in our modern times after the 2000s, the last stage now is defending Al-Bokhary against criticism. In this very last stage, they currently use all their power in media and in security apparatuses in Egypt as well as their influence to confiscate, to incarcerate, to torture, and to gag mouths and break pens of free thinkers. Yet, internet comes along and spread in Egypt, allowing all free thought and views to spread away from any sort of censorship. Hence Quranism and views of Quranists have reached some other people, and thus, criticism of Al-Bokhary has become so popular that we are in the verge of a fourth stage: refuting and debunking Al-Bokhary. This very stage will go on for a while, because fear of voiding criticism is dispelled now; several persons readily read and criticized books of Al-Bokhary. Internet has showed great potentials and has allowed everyone freedom of expression. Defenders of Al-Bokhary seek fame and media attention; those defenders used to remain silent while we have been persecuted for so long time, facing alone the campaigns against our reputation and accusations leveled against us like apostasy, atheism, and conspiring against the country and religion! Some of those defenders seek empty heroism; they make up many sorts of stories as if to appear in the light of leaders and theoreticians with so many disciples of their own.

9- The point above is directly linked with the topic of the real belief in the Last Day and the Quran as the only discourse in Islam. Researchers who seek truth do not care for being leaders or famous theoreticians or theologians with influence on the general public. Moreover, all people who describe themselves as Quranists are NOT a group, a clique, a category, a union, or even an organization; rather, Quranism is simply an intellectual trend in thought spread via the cyberspace within different levels. Truth seekers who are in a quest for the real religion reach it, whether they know such truth by themselves or via others; they believe steadfastly once they feel the light of Quranism, and they desire to spread such knowledge via cyberspace, even if others ascribe such ideas to themselves and not for the original researchers. True researchers offer their article and books freely online to allow it to be read by everybody, and they express practically thus their stance toward the belief in the Last Day.

10- The belief in the Last Day here means to renounce worldly possessions and allurements; the only reward sought is Eternal Paradise in the Afterlife and escaping Eternal Hell, even if some people ascribe one's thoughts and theories to themselves and ignore one's name as the original author. For certain, reward of Heaven is preserved by God to such one. One finds relief and solace in the following verse: "Every soul will have a taste of death, and you will receive your recompense on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever is swayed from the Fire, and admitted to Paradise, has won. The life of this world is merely enjoyment of delusion." (3:185). This verse contains four facts denied by disbelievers; 1) all of us are mortals who will die sooner or later, 2) real reward or punishment is NOT in his transient world, but after the Day of Resurrection, 3) the real winners are those who escape Hell and enter Paradise, and 4) this transient, material, and vain worldly existence is filled with delusions. Solace is obtained via the following verse for those researchers who seek truth who believe steadfastly in the Last Day; this verse is addressed to the pious believers whose hearts are filled with certainty: "You will be tested through your possessions and your persons; and you will hear from those who received the Scripture before you, and from the polytheists, much abuse. But if you persevere and lead a righteous life-that indeed is a mark of great determination." (3:186). Indeed, polytheists of Azhar never ceased to harm our person and reputation and to verbally abuse us, and we hope to stick to patience and piety to win in the Hereafter.

11- Hypocrites who seek only worldly gains are described in these verses: "Among the people is he who says, "We have believed in God." Yet when he is harmed on God's account, he equates the people's persecution with God's retribution. And if help comes from your Lord, he says, "We were actually with you." Is not God aware of what is inside the hearts of the people? God certainly knows those who believe, and He certainly knows the hypocrites." (29:10-11). God says nothing but the Truth, even if ISIS members in Azhar and worldwide hate such Truth!

Ignorant Sheikhs of Confusion and their so-called Staples in Creed (5/5)

1- ISIS Azharite people and their likes describe that all notions of their man-made fabricated creeds as ''staples'' or as ''notions deducted necessarily from religion''! they do not dare to declare that they are defending whatever inherited from their forefathers; such an expression is linked in Quranic verses to the tenets of disbelievers and polytheists in all times and locations. Falsehoods of the so-called 'staple' are easily refuted and debunked. Let us cite hear two reasons. Firstly, Azharite clergymen could never form an agreed-upon list of such 'staples', and they could never possibly agree on it one day, because of the strife and conflict among the Sunnites, the Shiites, and the Sufis in all aspects of their Muhammadan creed. See 2:137, 2:176, 22:53, 38:2, 41:52, 6:153, 6:159, and :31-32. Secondly, these so-called staples are based on lies and falsehoods without real foundation; once refuted and criticized by discussion, sheikhs who guard them feel confused and shake with fury and readily denounce what they deem attempts to confuse the faith tenets of the general public! If their staples were firmly based on certainties, they would not have felt confusion. It is ironic and funny that Azharite ISIS sheikhs could not bear to hear hadiths found in Al-Bokhary books that expose such books as punch of lies and falsehoods. They deem mere mentioning them as an attempt to undermine people's faith! They are taken then to violent vitriol of language of abuse and threat to direct their fury against critics of Al-Bokhary by leveling accusations against them as apostates and traitors. Some Azharite sheikhs cry like widows, claiming that they wonder how Al-Bokhary in whom they spent 30 years of constant study is criticized now! We wonder, in our turn, how come such men accept hadiths in it that undermine and insult God, the Quran, and Muhammad! Such ISIS old men of Azhar who spent their careers studying and teaching Al-Bokhary books are to choose now: either to accept Al-Bokhary books whose views insult and undermine God, the Quran, and Muhammad, thus deserving to be a blasphemous disbeliever, or to admit that they never read Al-Bokhary books and declare themselves as illiterate ignoramuses deserve to be confined in literacy schools!

2- Ignorance is the main feature of those old people propagating polytheism and disbelief filling their hearts, as per Quranic descriptions of them. Their discourses are idle talk expressing even their ignorance of their earthly, man-made creed. They deserve the description in 62:5, because they carry on their shoulders, not in their heads, the ancient inherited tome and volumes and unprinted scrolls of the Sunnite creed but they never understand them. Their creed is based on falsehoods and fabrications and idle talk; and real believers adhering to the certainty of the Quran is ordered in it to avoid idle nonsensical talk: "Those who avoid nonsense." (23:3). "The servants of the Merciful are those who walk the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, "Peace."" (25:63). "And when they hear vain talk, they avoid it, and say, "We have our deeds, and you have your deeds; peace be upon you; we do not desire the ignorant."" (28:55). Real believers are not to attend gatherings of falsehoods and fabrications directed to God and Muhammad and Islam: "And those who do not bear false witness; and when they come across indecencies, they pass by with dignity." (25:72). Coercion in religion is found in all eras by the powerful ones in authority, like the Qorayish tribesmen, but the Prophet told them what God says: "Say, "Is it other than God you instruct me to worship, you ignorant ones?"" (39:64). Hence, such ignorant ones in all eras, like Azharite ISIS men, use all their influence, power, and authority to prevent any discussion of the fabricate Sunnite creed based on falsehoods and lies. They aim thus to avoid confusion resultant of free discussion without fear of punishment. When faced with unbelievable funny hadiths authored by their deity, al-Bokhary, they accuse critics of spreading confusion among the masses! They cannot defend Al-Bokhary using reasoning minds. They are afraid that their so-called staples appear as bubbles in the air like all the rest of illusions and myths that pile in heaps in the Sunnite Wahabi creed.  

3- In contrast to the ignorance of unbelievers and polytheists concerning Islam and even their fabricated man-made creeds, the true faithful believers in the Quran are certain of their religion and thoroughly knowledgeable of it. all divine messages are described as knowledge; i.e. real knowledge of God. All of them call for one clear message: There is no God but Allah; see 21:25. And they call for rejecting polytheism and disbelief; see 39:65-66. Every messenger and prophet addressed his people in their tongues to show them the divine truth; see 14:4. And that is why the Quran is revealed in Arabic; see: 19:97, 26:195, and 44:58, hence the universality of Islam (literally, submission to God) within all tongues and divine messages conveyed via prophets. What have occurred to all divine messages, and the Quran is no exception, is that they have been discarded or ignored in favor of differences in man-made thought concerning this divine message, resulting in disbelief eventually. This is concluded from the following verse: "Religion with God is Islam. Those to whom the Scripture was given differed only after knowledge came to them, out of envy among themselves. Whoever rejects the signs of God, God is quick to take account." (3:19). Hence, the divine messages are described as true knowledge as opposed to ignorance: "Allah bears witness that there is no God but He, as do the angels, and those endowed with knowledge, upholding justice. There is no God but He, the Mighty, the Wise." (3:18). This is the testimony of Islam descended to all messengers and prophets, hence the universality of Islam, and Quranists use in in their daily prayers. Thus, believers are described as endowed with knowledge, whereas ignorant ones ascribe falsehoods to the divine message and thus they reject and ignore it on purpose to prefer ancient lies and fabrications. Thus, they worship and deify Muhammad and making Islam a local creed by making Muhammad rise to the stature of godhead! The Muhammadans insist on distorting the Islamic testimony of ''There is No God but Allah" by adding a second part: ''Muhammad is His Prophet". This is the vast difference between the knowledgeable ones and the ignorant ones. The Quran is described in many verses s knowledge; see 2:120, 2:140, and 3:61. Believers are described in the Quran as ones endowed with knowledge. Let us examine some of these verses as follows.

 The following verse denies the myth of torment of the tomb, adhered to by all Muhammadans: "On the Day when the Hour takes place, the sinners will swear they had stayed but an hour. Thus they were deluded" (30:55). After death, souls return to Barzakh and bodies turn to dust in earth.Barzakh is a state of timeless existence; souls enter into it during sleep. In the Day of Resurrection, people will think they have slept for a day or a part of it. if they were tormented in their graves, as the Muhammadans claim, they would feel otherwise; i.e., they would feel the passage of centuries slowly. Hence, torment of the grave is a myth. The knowledgeable ones will say to infidels in the Last Day the following: "But those endowed with knowledge and faith will say, "You remained in God's Book until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but you did not know."" (30:56). Here, knowledge and faith are linked together. Let us quote another verse to assert this: "…God elevates those among you who believe, and those given knowledge, many steps. God is Aware of what you do." (58:11). Scientists of several branches feel the awe of Our Creator in their studies and researches of the physical world. "Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky? With it We produce fruits of various colors. And in the mountains are streaks of white and red-varying in their hue-and pitch-black. Likewise, human beings, animals, and livestock come in various colors. From among His servants, the learned fear God. God is Almighty, Oft-Forgiving." (35:27-28). We discern scientific hints in these verses. God describes in the Quran all the so-called religious institutions of polytheists as well as their 'holy' tombs and mausoleums as resembling the fragile house of female spiders: "The likeness of those who take to themselves protectors other than God is that of the spider. It builds a house. But the most fragile of houses is the spider's house, if they only knew. God knows what they invoke besides Him. He is the Almighty, the Wise. These examples-We put them forward to the people; but none grasps them except the learned." (29:41-43). Real believers in the Quran reject any sort or type of the so-called religious institutions; all of them without exceptions are based on falsehoods, myths, and lies without foundations. Real believers are not deceived by any decorated pompous words they deem as staples of creed by Azharite clergymen. Being caught in the webs of such staples, gullible ones become prey to clergymen who aim for their money! We see how Muhammadan clergymen eat up their followers like female spiders after squeezing all their money and making use of their effort. This occurs when the gullible ones believe in falsehoods as part of creed. At the same time, such religious institutions teem with conflicts and quarrels, and clergymen eat one another up, just like female spiders eating the male ones and its brood may eat one another! Hence, knowledge and faith and reasoning mind go hand in hand in the Quran and its contemplation. ISIS members of Azhar rejected true faith in the Quran to adhere to falsehoods of Al-Bokhary, and hence their eternal confusion.

4- Such Azharite polytheists who defend their so-called staples never feel ashamed of denying the reasoning faculties of the human mind. The reason: this mind is not the tool to accept their fabrications-based creeds; they require blind obedience and putting the mind aside! God revealed the Quran in Arabic so that people would reflect upon in; see 12:2 and 43:3. God orders us to reflect deeply upon the Quranic verses; see 14:12, 14:67, 30:24, 30:28, and 45:5. Believers contemplate and reflect on God's creation in the universe; see 3:191, and ISIS members and their likes deserve this Quranic description: "The worst of animals to God are the deaf and dumb-those who do not reason." (8:22). Their adherence to forefathers' notions and ancient tomes and their rejection of the Quran is described as follows: "And when it is said to them, "Follow what God has revealed," they say, "We will follow what we found our ancestors following." Even if their ancestors understood nothing, and were not guided? The parable of those who disbelieve is that of someone who calls upon someone who hears nothing except screaming and yelling. Deaf, dumb, and blind-they do not understand." (2:170-171); see also 5:104.  They deserve as well the following description: "…and He lays disgrace upon those who refuse to understand" (10:100). It is no use to try and guide them due to their refusal to use their minds: "And among them are those who listen to you. But can you make the deaf hear, even though they do not understand? And among them are those who look at you. But can you guide the blind, even though they do not see?" (10:42-43). "And if you call them to guidance, they will not hear. And you see them looking at you, yet they do not see." (7:198). "Or do you assume that most of them hear or understand? They are just like cattle, but even more errant in their way." (25:44). They will regret it when it is too late: "And they will say, "Had we listened or reasoned, we would not have been among the inmates of Hell-Fire."" (67:10).

Lastly: the vast difference between Quranists and the Azharite ISIS members:

1- Quranists say to every person: do not discard your mind for the sake of anyone or any thought; keep it free and independent and active all your life. Read and peruse our thought school and the schools of thought of others, with a critical eye. You are free absolutely to choose, reject, agree, and examine our thought, and all Quranists respect that freedom of choice for oneself. Quranists require and expect similar respect to be mutual; they need others among non-Quranists to respect their freedom and choice and the free expression of our belief via the internet.

2- Azharite ISIS sheikhs say to their followers: Reject your mind totally and follow and obey us blindly!


 

Chapter Four: Calling The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar to Repent

 We are bound to say that ISIS members of Azhar deny and reject God of the Quran as well as the Quranic facts of the Last Day. We express our sincere hope to preach them to call for their immediate repentance; as they disbelief in God and in the Quranic message revealed to Muhammad. they insist on ascribing lies and falsehoods to Muhammad, the Quran, and God. The evidence of this forms the entirety of this chapter as follows.

Firstly: Their rejection of and disbelief in the Quran:

1- Real believers believe in the Quran as the only discourse in Islam. "Have they not observed the government of the heavens and the earth, and all the things that God created, and that their time may have drawn near? Which message, besides this, will they believe in?" (7:185). "Woe on that Day to the rejecters. In what message, beyond this, will they believe?" (77:49-50). "These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe?" (45:6). In contrast, Azharite ISIS members believe only in the discourses of their deity, Al-Bokhary, among other mortal gods. When a hadith invented by Al-Bokhary contradicts tens of Quranic verses, they side with the hadith and deny the verses! For instance, there are more than 150 Quranic verses that deny the assumed intercession of Muhammad on behalf of believers in the Last Day; yet, Azharite ISIS members deny the Quran and prefer to believe this myth of intercession because it is found in Al-Bokhary books, among other human books. More details are found in our book published online here about this debunking this myth. God in the Quran asserts that Muhammad did not know the future and the unknown past; yet, millions of hadiths ascribed to him after death tackle future events! They are falsehoods tackling several topics such as intercession, events and signs of the Last Day, future occurrences and past occurrences of the ancient people. About one third of such millions of Sunnite hadiths tackle such topics in the books adhered to steadfastly by the Azhar institution. All hadiths contradict the Quran; believers in them deny and reject the Quran. Yet, Azharite ISIS members believe in hadiths and propagate them as divine facts!

2- Real believers in the Quran as the ONLY divine message revealed to Muhammad will NOT accuse Muhammad of spreading and conveying the message of God partially. In fact, he conveyed it wholly; he gave us the whole Islam as a religion, contained exclusively in the Quran, with no other sources. Azharite ISIS members believe in the contrary; they assume and imagine that Muhammad left 'part' of Islam not conveyed and unwritten! They mean by this the so-called hadiths written down in the Abbasid era after two centuries of Muhammad's death! This is as if Islam has been partially conveyed in the Umayyad era and the one before it (during civil strife among Arabs), until Ibn Berzaweih and his cronies came along to write the 'lost' parts down! This is an insult to Muhammad!  Ibn Berzaweih was the first name of the formerly Magian non-Arab Al-Bokhary, who died in 256 A.H.

3/1: Real believers in the Quran stick to the idea that the whole Islam as a religion has been reveled completed in the Quran, as per the following verse: "…Today I have perfected your religion for you, and have completed My favor upon you, and have approved Islam as a religion for you…" (5:3).                

3/2: Real believers in the Quran stick to the idea that God completed His words and message in the Quran: "The Word of your Lord has been completed, in truth and justice. There is no changing to His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower." (6:115).

3/3: Real believers in the Quran stick to the idea that the Quran is easy to reflect upon and to contemplate, seeking guidance. "We made it easy in your language, so that they may remember." (44:58). "We made it easy in your tongue, in order to deliver good news to the righteous, and to warn with it a hostile people." (19:97). and "We made the Quran easy to remember. Is there anyone who would remember?" (54:22). Deep reflections contain levels for those endowed with knowledge; this is not required from most people. They are to believe in the Quran alone with no other books and to peruse it often to seek guidance in matters of faith.

3/4: Real believers in the Quran stick to the idea that the Quran is clear only to those who reflect upon it using their minds to seek guidance. "…These are the Verses of the Clear Book. We have revealed it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand." (12:1-2). "By the Book that makes things clear. We made it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand." (43:2-3). "These are the Verses of the Clear Book." (26:2). "These are the Verses of the Clear Book." (28:2).

3/5: Real believers in the Quran stick to the idea that the Quranic verses explain themselves within the Quranic contexts and that ignoring and hiding such verses is deemed by God as a crime of convoluting, misinterpreting, and distorting the meanings of the Quran intentionally by ignoring verses that explain other verses. "" (2:159).

3/6: Real believers in the Quran stick to the idea that God never left any topic or issue within Islam unrevealed in the Quran. All what we need to know about Islam is clear enough in the Quran; its verse explain one another within one book containing the Word of God. ''…We neglected nothing in the Scripture…'' (6:38). ''…We have revealed to you the Book, as an explanation of all things…'' (16:89). "Whatever argument they come to you with, We provide you with the truth, and a better exposition." (25:33). Deep reflection upon the Quran is the mission of those endowed with knowledge. Explanation of the Quranic verses is found in other verses within the Quran itself: "Then, when We have recited it, follow its recitation. Then upon Us is its explanation." (75:18-19). The Quran contains all details in matters of faith; we need no other sources: "…We have explained all things in detail." (17:12). Mercy and guidance are found only in details of verses of the Quran: "We have given them a Scripture, which We detailed with knowledge-guidance and mercy for people who believe." (7:52).

Despite of all of the above-mentioned facts in the Quranic verses, ISIS members of Azhar reject all such verses by their insistence that the Quran is so mysterious, limited in scope, and vague and needs their tomes and volumes of the ancients to 'complete' and 'explain' it in full detail! Such tomes are filled with endless laughter-inducing contradictions, notions, concepts, silly stories, and myths. In contrast, any one with reasoning mind will read any Quranic verse and find it clear enough. Books of the so-called Quranic interpretations are filled with endless convolutions, contradictions, and falsehoods.

Secondly: ISIS members of Azhar sway others away from the path of God' Word (the Quran):

1- ISIS members of Azhar not only deny the Quran, but also they are bent upon misleading people away from the Quran by insisting that everyone must acknowledge the falsehood that Sunnite books are integral part of Islam, by force as they terrorize, persecute, and threaten those who reject Al-Bokhary and believe only in the Quran as the only discourse and source of Islam; we mean the Quranists. God warns such infidels like the ones of Azhar in the following verse: "…And woe to the disbelievers from a severe torment. Those who prefer the present life to the Hereafter, and repel from the path of God, and seek to make it crooked-these are far astray." (14:2-3). Azharites clergymen prefer the transient life with its pomp, splendor, posts, and possessions to the Hereafter, and that is why they repel others away from God' path, the Quran, and leading them astray.

2- In the Day of Resurrection, God will not accept the good deeds of such people who are astray. "Those who disbelieve and repel from the path of God-He nullifies their works." (47:1). "Those who disbelieve, and hinder from the path of God, and oppose the Messenger after guidance has become clear to them-they will not hurt God in the least, but He will nullify their deeds." (47:32). "Those who hinder from the path of God, and seek to distort it, and who deny the Hereafter." (7:45). "Those who disbelieve and obstruct from God's path-We will add punishment to their punishment, on account of the mischief they used to make." (16:88).

3- Accordingly, we call Azharite ISIS members to repent soon while they are still alive; otherwise, it will be too late: "Those who disbelieve, and hinder from God's path, and then die as disbelievers-God will not forgive them." (47:34).

Thirdly: ISIS members among Azharite clergymen and sheikhs trading with God's religion

1- Azharite ISIS members sell Quranic verses of God to buy transient possessions by propagation of falsehoods; they are real aggressors against true believers: "Towards a believer they respect neither kinship nor treaty. These are the transgressors. But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and give the obligatory charity, then they are your brethren in faith. We detail the revelations for a people who know." (9:9-10).        

2- That is why eternal torment waits for them if they die without repentance: "" (2:174-175). They will be foes of God in the Day of Resurrection, because they made Islam a source of terror to people, instead of its being a mercy: "We did not send you except as mercy to humankind." (21:107).

3- We call all Azharite men of ISIS to repent before death to avoid God's wrath and curse. "Those who suppress and hide the proofs and the guidance We have revealed, after We have clarified them to humanity in the Scripture, those God curses them, and the cursers curse them." (2:159). The repentant ones might be saved in one way only: "Except those who repent, and reform, and proclaim. Those-I will accept their repentance. I am the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful." (2:160).

Fourthly: Azharite ISIS members misguide and mislead people using idle talk of falsity to sway them away from the best discourse: the Quran

1- Within all societies, as long as there are people on earth until Doomsday, such type of people will be present; those to whom the following two verses apply: "Among the people is he who trades in distracting tales; intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God's way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment. And when Our Verses are recited to him, he turns away in pride, as though he did not hear them, as though there is deafness in his ears. So inform him of a painful punishment." (31:6-7). The truthful discourse in Islam is the Quran: "…And who speaks more truly than God?" (4:87). "…who is more truthful in speech than God?" (4:122). "God has sent down the best of narrations: a Scripture consistent and paired. The skins of those who reverence their Lord shiver from it, then their skins and their hearts soften up to the remembrance of God. Such is God's guidance; He guides with it whomever He wills. But whomever God leaves astray, for him there is no guide." (39:23). Hence, any other discourse in religion apart from the Quran misguides people, and this is expressed clearing in the following verse: "Among the people is he who trades in distracting tales; intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God's way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment." (31:6). Those who spread such tales of falsehoods reject and hate the Quran and mock Quranists who preach using the Quran alone. This is shown in the next verse: "And when Our Verses are recited to him, he turns away in pride, as though he did not hear them, as though there is deafness in his ears. So inform him of a painful punishment." (31:7). This applies to Azharite ISIS sheikhs, who follow the footsteps of devilish traditions of their forefathers.

2- In 31:7, we see that belief in God alone with no other deities is parallel to the belief in the Quran alone as the only source and discourse of Islam. Rejection of this is done by sinful liars who will be punished in the Hereafter. This applies to Azharite ISIS members. "These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe? Woe to every sinful liar who hears God's revelations being recited to him, yet he persists arrogantly, as though he did not hear them. Announce to him a painful punishment." (45:6-8). That is why we urge the Azharite ISIS men to repent before it is too late.

Fifthly: if Azharite ISIS members do not repent, they are the foes of Prophet Muhammad

Azharite ISIS members assume falsely that hadiths in books of Al-Bokhary and others are divine revelations. Quranists insist they are devilish and Satanic revelations. Azharite ISIS members proclaim their love to Muhammad, but they are his foes and enemies. This entails the following explanation.    

1- Within religion, there are two types of revelations; one is to adhere to the truthful divine celestial one, whose last manifestation is the Quran. The other type is the devilish one on which earthly, man-made, fabricated creeds of people as well as ecclesiastical bodies and institutions are based. God says about the Quran: "The Honest Spirit came down with it. Upon your heart, that you may be one of the warners. In a clear Arabic tongue." (26:193-195). "It was not the devils that revealed it. It is not in their interests, nor in their power." (26:210-211). Devilish revelations are described in the same chapter 26, using the present tense to indicate the continuity of such erroneous satanic revelations: "Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend? They descend upon every sinful liar." (26:221-222). Divine celestial revelation of the Quran ended by its entire completion by descending upon Muhammad. Then, Islam is completed when the last verse was revealed 5:3. In contrast, the devilish revelations of man-made, earthly, fabricated creeds of people grow on and are are subdivided into countless denominations and doctrines from the group called in history Al-Khawarij to ISIS. Such creeds spread corruption, destruction, and ongoing strife and wars if they dominate within a given society. Devilish revelation renewing itself in every era; devils never tender their resignation and never give up. Their mission is to misguide as many human beings as possible and leading them to sin and disbelief. God tells us about what Satan says: "Then I will come at them from before them, and from behind them, and from their right, and from their left; and you will not find most of them appreciative." (7:17).

3- Due to countless contradictions between the celestial and the devilish revelations, propagators and followers of the latter type are described as enemies of messengers and prophets of God in all eras, because they ascribe falsehoods to God and claim that such lies are part of divine revelation. "Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy-human and jinn devils-inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive. But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications." (6:112). The ignorant masses rely on listening attentively what is propagated without thinking as far as religious culture is concerned. This is a grave error: "So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter listen to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate." (6:113) such devilish revelations urge their followers to commit crimes and sins of every sort, deceived by myths of intercessions and houris waiting for ISIS fighters in the Hereafter! To save oneself from this labyrinth of falsehoods, one must return to the Quran; this is what we, Quranists, call for in our reformist endeavors. ISIS members of Azhar refuse to return to the Quran and to rely on it as the sole criterion. They are arrogant sinful groups. They claim they represent the vast majority of believers. Yet, true believers should not follow the masses that are mostly wrong, and Muhammad was warned against obeying others blindly: ""Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord. So do not be of those who doubt. The Word of your Lord has been completed, in truth and justice. There is no changing to His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower. If you were to obey most of those on earth, they would divert you from God's path. They follow nothing but assumptions, and they only conjecture." (6:114-116).

4- Muhammad is dead; the message of the Quran remains with us. We explain this in our book titled "The Quran Is Enough". Followers of devilish revelations will regret in vain in the Day of Resurrection when they know they are Muhammad's criminal foes and he will disown them due to their rejection and discard of the Quran: "On that Day, the wrongdoer will bite his hands, and say, "If only I had followed the way with the Messenger. Oh, woe to me; I wish I never took so-and-so for a friend. He led me away from the Message after it had come to me; for Satan has always been a betrayer of humankind." And the Messenger will say, "My Lord, my people have abandoned this Quran." Likewise, to every prophet We assign enemies from among the wicked. But your Lord suffices as a Guide and Savior." (25:27-31).

Sixthly: Testimony of Muhammad as a witness in the Last Day is concerned with the fact that the Quran is enough, in contrast to the cursed religion of ISIS 

1- God says about those who misguide and mislead others away from God' path, the Quran, the following: "Those who disbelieve and obstruct from God's path-We will add punishment to their punishment, on account of the mischief they used to make." (16:88). The next verse tackles witnesses in the Last Day against disbelievers, and among those witnesses is Muhammad who will testify that the Quran alone is enough as it contains all about Islam, the religion of God. Azharite ISIS members reject such Quranic facts. "On the Day when We raise in every community a witness against them, from among them, and bring you as a witness against these. We have revealed to you the Book, as an explanation of all things, and guidance, and mercy and good news for those who submit." (16:89). Hence, since the Quran explains all in matters of religion, we need NOT any other outside source. Azharite ISIS members reject this and prefer to stick to tomes of Al-Bokhary that contradict the Quran! They deify, revere, sanctify, and worship Al-Bokhary above God! Thus, they are enemies of Muhammad, and the rest of God's messengers and prophets, because they reject God' Book the Quran.

2- Witnesses in the Day of Resurrection include prophets and those who followed them truly and experienced, like prophets, persecution, suppression, and oppression coming from the unjust infidels, like ISIS. All unjust disbelievers in all eras, like Azharite ISIS members, impose falsehoods on people as an assumed a part of divine celestial revelation. This is the worst type of injustice toward God and people, by ascribing such falsehoods to God and tarnish His Quranic revelation. This verse applies to such unjust sinners that include Azharite ISIS clergymen: "Who does greater wrong than he who fabricates lies about God? These will be presented before their Lord, and the witnesses will say, "These are they who lied about their Lord." Indeed, the curse of God is upon the wrongdoers. Those who hinder others from the path of God, and seek to make it crooked; and regarding the Hereafter, they are in denial." (11:18-19).

Seventhly: God mocks His foes in the Quran

1- All types of clergymen on earth, past and present, of all man-made denominations, assume and imagine that they own Paradise and Hell and indulgences. Azharite ISIS clergymen are no exception. They used divine knowledge to misguide and mislead people according to their whims and desires; see 45:23. God mocks them in 7:175-179 by similes showing that they resemble dogs and cattle, and in the simile showing them like donkeys carrying tomes and scrolls in 62:5.

2- If Azharite ISIS members do not repent in their lifetime, they will dwell forever in Hell cursed by their followers: "The Day when their faces are flipped into the Fire, they will say, "If only we had obeyed God and obeyed the Messenger." And they will say, "Lord, we have obeyed our superiors and our dignitaries, but they led us away from the way. Lord, give them double the punishment, and curse them with a great curse."" (33:66-68). "They will say, as they feud in it."By God, We were in evident error. For equating you with the Lord of the Worlds. No one misled us except the sinners. Now we have no intercessors. And no sincere friend." (26:96-101). God says nothing but the Truth, even if disbelievers hate it.

PART III: On Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

PART III: On Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

Chapter One: In Hope of Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar: A Notification Addressed to the Conscience of The Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi: The Political Will Is the Basis of Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar .

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Firstly: Basic rules regarding the political will in Egypt

1- Egypt has been, and remains in the future to be, the most important and pioneer Arab country and of vital importance to all Arab and non-Arab countries of the Muhammadans. If Egyptians play their role in religious reform and indeed all other types of reform, Egypt will be elevates in stature and prosper; other Arab and Muhammadans' countries will follow Egypt accordingly, as usual. If Egypt deteriorates and lost its leading role, it will be lost and so are all Arab countries. No other Arab country is qualified enough to lead all Arabs instead of Egypt.

2- Egypt usually, in ancient and modern history, gets its features as a country from the features and traits of its ruler. If its ruler is a true leader qualified for leadership, Egypt leads all Arab countries and fulfills its typical historical role. Its renaissance is so for all Arab countries. This took place several times in history, when Egypt was ruled by leaders like President Gamal Abdel-Nasser, King Muhammad Ali Pacha, Saladin, Ahmed Ibn Touloun, and Al-Muezz Lidinealla the Fatimid ruler. Without such greatness of character of the leader/ruler of Egypt that befits the role and stature of such a great country, the country collapses and deteriorates on all levels. Examples of bad unfitting rulers of Egypt in history are – sadly – numerous in modern and ancient times. Such examples include Al-Adid the Fatimid ruler, all progeny of the rulers who were the descendants of the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Adil, the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Kamel, all successors of Ahmed Ibn Touloun, and the successors of M. Al-Ikhshid.

3- Religious equation inside and outside Egypt has changed by the existence of (the Cairo-based) Al-Azhar institution for more than 1000 years, since the establishment of Cairo in the Fatimid Era. This institution at first was established by the Fatimids to spread and propagate the Shiite creed inside and outside Egypt. When Saladin, the first Ayyubid Sultan, abolished the Fatimid caliphate, he closed down Al-Azhar and established instead institutions of Sunnite Sufism, such as Khanqah Saeed Al-Su'adaa. Later on, Al-Azhar regained its role within the Mameluke Era (1250 - 1517) among other institutions to propagate the Sunnite Sufism creed. Al-Azhar thrived more in the Ottoman Era after the other institutions (schools, madrassas, and khanqahs) dwindled gradually. Al-Azhar has been influential in religious lives of Egyptians and all Arabs since centuries ago. In our modern times now, during the crisis of all Arabs due to the existence of terrorism, Wahabism, the terrorist MB group and its likes, and ISIS terrorists, the vital importance of reforming religious thought from within Islam can never be exaggerated. We believe that reform of 'Muslims' that we call Muhammadans (about 1.5 billion persons) entails the reform of all Arabs (about 300 million persons). Reform of all Arabs entails reform of Egyptians (about 100 million persons). Eventually, reform of Egyptians entails the reform of Al-Azhar. Reform of this institution entails radical changes in its curricula and getting rid of the ISIS sheikhs who control the institution. These radical changes and riddance require the political will of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.

Secondly: the above-mentioned points pose some queries.

1- What is more important: ISIS Azharite sheikhs, with their ignorance and incompetence in elucidating tenets and facts of Islam as per Azhar law and their stopping people from following the path of God in the Quran, or the reform of Egyptians and Arabs among the Muhammadans who think of themselves as Muslims? We leave the answer to the Egyptian President, feeling sure enough concerning his integrity, conscience, and nationalism, and devotion to Islam.

2- Is getting rid of ISIS Azharite sheikhs considered a mission impossible? The answer is surely not. This is possible. As per Azhar law itself, if it will be applied indeed, they can be fired from their posts easily by accusing them of denying facts and tenets of Islam in the Quran. This entails the explanation below.

Thirdly: An overview of Azhar law No. 103, issued by President Gamal Abdel-Nasser in 1961

1- Nasser, with his political will alone and single-handedly, took measures to update and modernize Al-Azhar by including it in the government and by nationalizing the Religious Endowments (waqfs) and turning it into a separate ministry. Nasser established within Al-Azhar University faculties of medicine, engineering, pharmaceutical studies, agricultural studies…etc. and issued Azhar law No. 103 in 1961, that includes an article about the role of Azharite sheikhs to elucidate and show facts and tenets of Islam as their main mission. This law never mentioned the term 'Sunna'; it mentions the terms 'Quran' and 'Islamic studies' and Islamic 'culture', meaning heritage books of human thought of ancient scholars. The law stipulates the removal of all extremist or deviant notions from such books, volumes, and tomes. The best part in this law is its note added to explain matters further; we find in it politically correct terms that indicate Azhar backwardness and the regression and ignorance of graduates from its university, who knew nothing about the modern times or zeitgeist. The note alludes to their feeling of inferiority and the false impression that they are clergymen akin to ecclesiastical churches. The note asserts that every single believer is a man/woman of religion and of the world as well, needing no clergymen or mediators of any type, because God in Islam is nearer to every believer than his/her heart, as per the Quran. This note is written by the minister on top of Azhar institution as its head in 1961, refuting the ecclesiastical Vatican-like nature ascribed to Azhar. No clergymen or mediators between believers and God are allowed essentially in Islam. Azhar is described in this note as a civil institution submitting to the executive authorities in Egypt. the note describes the head of the Azhar institution as ''the grand sheikh of Azhar'' NOT a grand imam as the term used today. Hence, this note denies any mediators/intercessors and any sort of spiritual guardianship of confiscation of knowledge as 'secrets' of occult nature.

2- Such statements of enlightenment in the above-mentioned Azhar law are repeated in other words in Article No. 2, concerned with the role of Azhar in preserving the heritage of 'Islamic' thought by 'studying, spreading, and explaining this thought and its influence on and role in human civilization and elevation of culture', and this means there should be room and role for research and creative progressive views by showing real facts/tenets of Islam in the Quran. Article No. 15 confines the mission of other Azharite bodies like Islamic Research Center to renew 'Islamic' cultural heritage books by removing of negative notions leading to backwardness, bigotry, fanaticism, and extremism of all sorts, in order the show great essence of Islam and call for the way of God with real wisdom. This article also urges creative progressive views. Article No. 33 confines the mission of Al-Azhar University to 'preserving and propagating and explain 'Islamic' thought heritage to convey the true message of Islam and its essence to humanity.' This article also urges creative progressive views. This presupposes that there are hidden truths or facts need to be manifested and shown and propagated within the Quran and from the so-called heritage books, with the latter acknowledged to contain errors and erroneous notions. But what do we mean by creative progressive views? This means moving away from the old trodden routes and deducing novel thoughts, ideas, and notions within sources of Azhar itself different from those of ancestors and forefathers.

3- If Azharite personnel/sheikhs could never undertake and execute this mission, what is to become of them?! They should be fired from their positions. In cases that head of Azhar institution fights against new notions and reasoning within Islam by reformers and denies facts of the Quran, what is to be done? He must get fired from his post. Article No. 30 stipulates that denying facts of Islam in the Quran, shameful behavior punishable by Egyptian laws, and demeanor that lacks integrity are the main causes to expel scholars from Azhar and to annul their membership in Islamic Research Center. Article No. 72 stipulates that the same causes should lead to the expulsion of any professor at Al-Azhar University from his post. Yet, countless Azharite clergymen deny the Quran now by defending falsehoods of al-Bokhary and other authors of ancient tomes. Such ancient authors insult and undermine the Quran and prophet Muhammad; yet, such authors and tomes are still being propagated and taught by Azhar! In contrast, those who call for religious reform, for the sake of Islam and believers to ameliorate conditions of Arab societies infested by Wahabism, are being chased away and persecuted! Azharite clergymen use their authority to punish and terrorize reformers in Egypt! such crimes must lead to their expulsion from Azhar University in accordance with the above-mentioned law, yet they remain untouched and unscathed enjoying impunity, whereas reformers sink into oblivion!

4- Egyptian Criminal Law stipulates that those who incite murder or killing are punished as killers even if they did not kill with their own hands. Yet, no one punishes extremist bigots in Azhar who incite suicide bombings and massacres of innocent people, inside and outside Egypt, while promising the criminals beforehand with houris in Paradise! Such corrupt people instigate Egyptian simple youth to become ISIS terrorists! They provide intellectual cover to sanction and endorse with 'religious' discourse the massacres and mass-killings by terrorists of Egyptian soldiers now in Cairo and Sinai and elsewhere! Terrorist Wahabi organizations kill Egyptians and non-Egyptians in in Egypt indiscriminately! Such crimes are ascribed falsely to Islam! They are to be attributed truly to Salafism and Wahabism. How come Islam sent by God via Muhammad who is described in the Quran as a mercy to humankind be turned into a source of terror to human beings?!

5- There is an Egyptian law that draws an ill-reputation in Egypt: namely, the so-called law against contempt of religions, presumably to defend Islam against detractors. Such twisted law is misused by ISIS sheikhs/members of Azhar to silence and threaten all free thinkers and to undermine freedom of expression and thought. We, Quranists, stand against such twisted law; it is an obstacle against civil liberties, human rights, and the absolute religious freedom urged in the Quran. Even when such a twisted law is applied, Azharite ISIS members should be punished by it for defaming Islam with erroneous Middle-Ages notions, leading to bigotry, extremism, fanaticism, and terrorism. Contempt of Islam/ the Quran is everyday life in Azhar University curricula. Such curricula of ancient tomes led to the emergence of terrorist organizations like ISIS with its heinous crimes and atrocities in the media now. Such intellectual crimes in Azhar and such ISIS terrorist criminal acts in the name of Islam are the real contempt of Islam.

6- To make things easier, there is another law of retirement in Egypt. Age of retirement is 60 years old for all governmental employees and 65 years old if such employees are graduates of Azhar University. This 5-year difference is due to the fact that the preparatory stage in Azhar schools used to be – until early 1969 – 4 years and the secondary one 5 years. Thus, such a law of retirement at the age of 65 is non-applicable; yet, it is still applied until today in Egypt! Hence, all Azhar-graduated employees at Azhar institution and university should retire at the age of 60; for the sake of justice and reform.

Lastly:

1- All what is required from the current Egyptian President is to apply the law in accordance with what he promised before and after presidential elections: reform of education and of religious discourse. Such reformation means to get rid of ISIS members of Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments (waqfs) so that Egypt and indeed all Arabs would avoid upcoming disasters and catastrophes due to terrorism.  Let us not forget that Egypt is surrounded by a hot bed of countries collapsing, and solutions are at hand to prevent the collapse of our beloved Egypt. Simply speaking, laws that are non-applied currently should be applied by force of the Egyptian law. Let us remember that the Egyptian society is now seems ready for reform and youths are corrigible; every citizen is tired to death from the same clichés, unfulfilled promises, old faces and persons, and all clergymen. Egypt cannot afford the postponement of finding solutions to its problems until later instead of facing reality. Postponement is not within policies known of the Egyptian President; he has dared to take economic initiatives feared by others. Hence, the Egyptian President, who made citizens trust him due to his candor and confrontational attitude, can press on the subject of reforming Azhar easily using his soaring popularity, and citizens will support him whole-heartedly; he can save Egypt from Azharite ISIS members who are not merely employees or groups inside Azhar alone. In fact, such type of ISIS-like persons is everywhere in all institutions of the State, spreading terrorist Wahabi and Salafist ideology that has nothing to do with Islam (the Quran). Egypt might be ruined one day if such ideology dominates the Military army of Egypt – Heaven forbid! Will we wait until Azhar destroys Egypt?!

2- We believe the Egyptian President can do it; God does not burden any soul beyond its capacity. What we advise him to do is within his capacity and his religious and national duty.

3- God says in the Quran: "On the Day when every soul will come pleading for itself, and every soul will be paid in full for what it has done, and they will not be wronged." (16:111). God says nothing but the Truth.                                         


 

The Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar                                                                                                   

We are still dressing the Egyptian President, hoping to save all Egyptians and Arabs from the mortal danger of Azhar ISIS members. We give below a brief historical overview of examples of political will and its negative and positive interference, and how the domination and control of ISIS members of Azhar over the religious life of Egyptians and all Arabs have occurred as a result.

1- When signs of the emergence of ISIS danger loomed, we published here our book titled ''Wahabi Opposition Movements in the KSA" to ring the alarm bells; in sum, we prove in this book how massacres of the Najd Brothers, a group formed by the first KSA king Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud, in the Levant and Iraq resembles massacres of ISIS now. Swords of the Najd Brothers helped to establish the current KSA. Later on, the Najd Brothers revolted against Abdul-Aziz and he defeated and annihilated them with his political will single-handedly, while he formed the terrorist MB in Egypt!

2- Terrorist MB organization spread like cancerous cells all over Egypt and later on worldwide.  Some claim that there were terrorist MB members among the Free Officers in the 1952 coup against monarchy. President Nasser got rid of all terrorist MB group members with his own political will single-handedly; most terrorist MB group members fled to the KSA (their Wahabi spiritual birth-place) to escape Nasser's prisons and persecution. Nasser used to deride, mock, and criticize the terrorist MB ideology in public in his televised and radio speeches addressed to the Egyptian citizens. Nasser faced the looming danger of the KSA Wahabism with the ideology of Pan-Arabism and by his reforming Azhar laws and university. He sought to rely on the moderate Egyptians' religious nature that shuns all sorts of bigotry, extremism, and fanaticism. Nasserite Egypt constituted a danger and a thorn in the side of the evil KSA. The reason: the Saudi royal dynasty faced a brief danger of an organization called ''the Free Princes'' (imitating the Free Officers Movement in Egypt) headed by the Prince Talal Ibn Abdul-Aziz that aimed, but failed, to confiscate power and authority in the KSA. Hence, the KSA felt that Nasser was a thorn in their side threatening the very existence of the KSA. The Saudis felt that Nasser must disappear so that the KSA go on existing. Some Egyptian historians claim Nasser was assassinated at the age of 52 (while still in the prime of his strength and activity) by poisoning via unknown KSA agents in Egypt. If Nasser would have lived to be an octogenarian (of the same generation of Nasser, Mubarak is octogenarian and the famous Egyptian veteran political journalist M. H. Heikal is a nonagenarian), the KSA would have been wiped off the map of Arab world. In such a surmise, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations would have never emerged. Let us not forget that Egypt destroyed the first KSA in 1818 A.D., and Egypt allowed the formation of the second one that collapsed due to internecine conflicts, and hence, the on-going and thriving of the current third KSA is linked with satisfaction of Egyptian authorities and the KSA control of religious and cultural life in Egypt and of Azhar.

3- Hence, getting rid of Nasser reflected the political will and target of the USA, Israel, and the KSA, and conspiring against his life entailed precise slow steps, especially after Nasser led the positive neutrality movement in 1964 and led all revolutionary movements against colonization in Arab and African countries. What threatened Israel and the USA and the KSA most was the alliance between Egypt and the USSR against the USA. Conspiracies led eventually to split the alliance between Syria and Egypt in 1961 and pulling the legs of Nasser in Yemen war, and then came the 1967 defeat and he lost Sinai in what is called now the Six-Day War. Thus, the Nasserite Era glory in Egypt ended miserably. Egypt was crestfallen, while the KSA king Feisal Al-Saud fame and stature rose in the Khartoum Conference on 29th August, 1967, where Arabs refused to acknowledge the existence of Israel and refused to negotiate or make treaties with it until Arab lands occupied in 1967 are returned to its rightful owners. Henceforth, the KSA assumed that it will lead Arabs after getting rid of Nasser who licked his wounds until his death (assassination?) in September 1970. Some claim that Sadat was being prepared (in a long-term slow anti-Egypt plot) to assume presidency of Egypt long along before 1970.

4- Since 1955, Sadat was friends with Kamal Adham, who later headed the KSA central intelligence agency and used to offer services for the American CIA concerning the Middle East. Kamal Adham was the husband of the sister of the KSA king Feisal, and he was the KSA representative in the ''Islamic Conference Organization'', headed by Sadat in the late 1950s. Sadat became the link by which the KSA would infiltrate into Egyptian mainstream and political life. During the good days between Nasser and King Feisal, the latter gave the sum 42 million Sterling as a grant to Egypt, and he asked Nasser to appoint Sadat as a vice-president, under the pretext that he was the man to maintain good Egyptian-Saudi relations away from Marxist and Leftist (gauche) Nasserite retinue men affiliated to the USSR, like Ali Sabry. A year later, Cairo hosted a conference that included all Arab presidents and monarchs in September 1970 when the incidents of Black September in Jordan broke out between Jordan and the Palestinians, and the latter sought the aid of Nasser. Nasser greeted and saw off all his guests and then drank a cup of coffee or a glass of juice, and died instantly! History of Egypt and the Middle East has changed forever since this fateful moment. The KSA has dominated the scene and the political arena, while Egypt lost its leadership and sank into levels of degenerations until this very moment.

5- What concerns us here is the influence of the above-mentioned on Al-Azhar institution, which used to be among the arms of Nasser inside and outside Egypt. Nasser annulled the so-called religious courts due to their corruption and made all courts civil and public and he turned Al-Azhar from a location merely subservient to the ministry of Waqfs (Religious Endowments) into an updated, modern governmental body when he nationalized the ministry. He added to Al-Azhar University faculties of science, agriculture, medicine, etc. he created Al-Azhar law No. 103 in 1960 to compel sheikhs to elucidate facts and tenets of Islam. This law never mentions the word ''Sunna''; rather, it mentions words like ''the Quran'', "Islamic fields of knowledge'', and ''Islamic culture''. This law entails the purging and removal of all erroneous notions of Middle-ages, extremism, bigotry, and fanaticism within this human thought deemed for centuries to be 'Islamic'.  This Nasserite law admits the fact that Azharite curricula contain backward and regressive elements. Nasser commanded the minister of Al-Azhar to present an explanatory note in 1961 to refute and negate the ecclesiastical church-like nature attribute to Al-Azhar as a civil body under the executive authority in Egypt. The note contains no mention of a grand imam as an epithet to the head of al-Azhar. The note asserts the refutation of mediators and intercessors between God and believers and the guardianship of clergymen over the souls of believers.

6- Nasser was the one to establish the Supreme Council of Islamic affairs in 1960 to rely on such a body in Islamic renaissance outside Egypt. Nasser established the students' city to house non-Egyptians who came to learn in Al-Azhar University. Nasser established the radio station named 'Al-Quran Al-Kareem' in Cairo along with the state public radio station. Nasser urged the education for girls and opened work fields for women to become employees on equal footing with men in higher posts and salaries as well as fashion and dress codes. Nasser appointed the very first female minister, Dr. Hekmat Abou Zeid. Nasser made education available for all classes in Egypt equally, based on justice and qualification. The sons and daughters of peasants and workers and small employees could enroll in any faculties as per secondary school grades, to enter the universities, and faculty of law, police academies, and military academies, which was confined formerly to sons and daughters of middle and high classes. Nasser was truly the founder of the modern Egypt; so many details cannot be mentioned here among his other achievements due to the limited scope of this book. Suffice it to say that Egyptians were more civilized, cultured, and elevated in the 1950s and the 1960s in comparison to later decades; see the examples of such elegance and elevation in movies of the period and videos of concerts of the diva Um Koulthoum. The Egyptians were dignified outside Egypt because of Nasser. We see now why the KSA had to get rid of Nasser to step into the leadership position of Arabs. The KSA formally established in 1932, and this means that the Cairene newspaper Al-Ahram is older than the KSA by about 77 years. It is ironic and funny that the KSA considers itself the elder sister of Egypt; Egypt is the oldest state on earth and in history millennia ago!

7- Sadat abolished, annulled, and destroyed all achievements of Nasser in Egypt. Sadat obeyed the USA commands soon enough when he severed relations with the USSR and its experts and opened the doors wide for capitalism, all USA policies, and all KSA policies. His worst crime yet was to allow the terrorist MB group members and Wahabis/Salafis to control several institutions and fields and Al-Azhar as well as most mosques in Egypt. Egypt has become subservient to the KSA and the USA. When both countries felt that Sadat became an unbearable burden, they both arranged his assassination via the Wahabi MB terrorists in October 1981.

8- As for Al-Azhar, Sadat annulled Law No. 103 and replaced it with an executive note in 1975, to wipe out all Nasserite traces of achievement in Azhar! Such corrupted and twisted move allows the punishment of anyone who dares to criticize Wahabism and Salafism and dares to show and explain Quranic facts and tenets. Such punishment was exacted by idle ignorant Wahabi Azharite sheikhs. That is why we, Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour, was accused of denying facts of Islam due to our writings that prove clearly that the Quran contradicts and refutes the so-called Sunna and Sunnite Fiqh. Azharite clergymen persecuted us from 1985 to 1987 because of our writings that apply the Nasserite Law No. 104 of Al-Azhar.

9- Hence, the political will of Nasser led Egypt to be a true leader of all Arabs within Al-Azhar institution among other fields and achievements; the political will of Sadat did the exact opposite and Egypt was dwarfed. Sadat planted mines and bobs in the Egyptians collective mind. The Sadat crimes against Egyptian culture and stature led to the undermining of writings of enlightenment figures such as Al-Tahtaoui, Taha Hussein, Muhammad Abdou, Ahmed Amin, Muhammad Hussein Heikal, Sheikh Shaltout, Sheikh Abou Zahra, and Amin Al-Khouly…etc. by subjugating Egypt to Wahabism imported from the KSA. The political will of Sadat allowed him to take airs and epithets with allusions of religiosity. He committed the crime of making Egypt enter into the dark tunnel of Wahabism and Salafism (the worst types of Sunnite creeds) to the extent that every simple act of everyday life entails an extremist Salafist fatwa! Sadat allowed political trends of Wahabi Salafists to accuse their foes and detractors, who refuse the application of sharia, as renegades and apostates who forsook Islam! Sadat was among victims of Wahabism when Wahabi terrorists of the MB members assassinated him after accusing him of apostasy and disbelief! Other bombs and mines exploded in the three decades of Mubarak rule. Other bombs and mines of Wahabism wait to be exploded now inside and outside Egypt!

Lastly:

 We hope the Egyptian President Al-Sisi gains control of his own political will in a positive manner that will save Egyptians and Arabs from the danger of ISIS members in Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments.


 

Al-Sisi and ISIS Azharite Members

Firstly: facts about the current debate within the Egyptian media

1- It is good thing that for the very first time Egyptian media figures criticize Al-Azhar curricula since the abolishment of the Nasserite Al-Azhar Law of 1960. This is unprecedented and commendable. We remember that once we sent some Al-Azhar curricula books to the Marxist veteran thinker and activist Dr. Rifaat Al-Saeed, and we asked him to write criticisms of them, but he did not. We sent the same books to the late (assassinated by Wahabi terrorists later) Dr. Farag Fouda, and he did write a preliminary article published in Al-Ahrar newspaper. Yet, an ultimatum reached him from Mubarak men because the head of Azhar Sheikh Jad-Al-Haq was furious and called Mubarak to protest. Fouda told his readers in another article that he had to stop writing on the subject and said jestingly and mockingly that he would write on sports or anything else.

2-We feel glad that recently an Azharite youth (the Sheikh named Muhammad Nasr) said on TV publicly and vociferously in Egypt that Al-Bokhary books are insulting to God and Muhammad and filled with bad notions and language. The other Wahabi sheikh in the forum on air felt astonished to hear Nasr quoting exact words of Al-Bokhary. Such sheikh who worships Al-Bokhary as a deity never imagined such criticism, and he threatened Nasr with torment of the grave. He was astounded to hear Al-Bokhary, to him considered the holy of holies and the Sunnite sanctified and revered god, insulted and derided. Atheists are used to verbally abuse God and Islam and Muhammad, and such insults never incited the anger of Azharite ISIS members. When Nasr mocked and insulted and derided Al-Bokhary, their supreme deity, they felt such fury that they had to attack him verbally on TV and via cyberspace! Sheikh Nasr attacked their gods, as Qorayish tribesmen accused Muhammad the prophet of verbally abusing their gods and idols.         

3- It is commendable that President Al-Sisi early in his presidential term talks about reforming Azharite education and public education and the religious discourse. He began already to order modifications in the curricula of religious education in public schools, and he took measures to control sermons and preachers in mosques.

Secondly: Such facts are commendable and induce joy as partial measures aimed by all Quranists, but they are not sufficient due to the bleak atmosphere that contains the facts below.

1- We, Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour, sough in vain to appear on any Egyptian TV channel to talk about Quranism, our school of thought aiming at reform, and to expose Al-Bokhary and the rest of enemies of Islam and foes of God and Prophet Muhammad. Our school of thought is included within reform of religious discourse and education, but doors are closed before us until this very moment. We have published thousands of articles and several books online in this respect, calling for Quranism as the solution for such problems in Egypt and the Arab world, but no one cares to present us via the media. No one wants to discuss Quranism in the Egyptian media. If anyone dares to tackle something nearer to Quranism, law of contempt of religion would incarcerate him/her for five years!

2- Our 1990s articles in Cairo covered many topics, and some Azharite people attacked our ideas in media without mentioning our name. we began the call for reform 30 years ago inside Azhar, and we founded the school of thought called Quranism that spread all over the globe; yet, no other reformers in Egypt mention our name when they write on the topic of reforming Al-Azhar, though some of these reformers use to know us in Cairo. Insistence on ignoring and overlooking our name and endeavor and suffering raises several question and exclamation marks. Why does this fear of our name persist in Egypt?! Why denying the so-called Sunnite hadiths remains an accusation feared by all reformers in Egypt?! What declaring oneself as a Quranist might incite punishment in Egypt?! Higher levels of freedom in Egyptian media have been reached especially in expression of political views, but fear of Azharite ISIS members and their media men persists until now. Azharite clergy drew an image of the devil out of us! Quranists in Egypt suffered four waves of arrest by Mubarak. Sadly, Arab and Egyptian people are still enslaved to culture of tongue-to-cheek rumors calumnies, slanders, and views, and they never read; they just listen to and believe in Sunnite Wahabi sermons on Fridays! They should remember the following Quranic verse: "O you who believe! If a troublemaker brings you any news, investigate, lest you harm people out of ignorance, and you become regretful for what you have done." (49:6). Sunnite, Shiite, and Sufi creeds of the Muhammadans are based on audience hearing not on readings! Even hadiths writers among ancient ones write that they ''heard'' so-and-so saying that Muhammad the prophet said …etc. this culture spread falsehoods! Is not that shocking indeed?! Our name beings fear to all Azharite clergymen. Is not that funny indeed?!

3- Does this mean that our name is a taboo in Egyptian ruling circles and media?! Perhaps this is true. We lament this if this true. We never desire fame, wealth, or authority. We care NOT for worldly possessions in this transient existence. We apply this verse: "…I desire nothing but reform, as far as I can. My success lies only with God. In Him I trust, and to Him I turn" (11:88). From the very beginning, since 1977, we have four main principles: we never impose ourselves on others; we never impose our thought on others; we never ask for money anything from others; and, we pardon and forgive others as much as we can. Maybe such idealism is an obstacle; ruling classes in the Arab and Muhamadan countries do not feel secure dealing with people like us; we are a free thinker who never submits to anyone except God Almighty. Ruling circles love to deal with obedient slaves and henchmen!

4- Does this mean that when Egyptian government men discover that ISIS members of Al-Azhar fail in reform, they might resort to Quranists instead? We hope so.

Thirdly: Other facts that might lead Egyptian government men to resort to Quranists are as follows.

1- Deep state in Egypt has its own mentality and ancient notions; chief among them is the love of controlling those under it, especially Azharite clergymen who are loyal and obedient servants to them. Yet Azharite ISIS members are not as expert as deep state men; on the contrary, they are ignorant even in their specialized fields. Such Azharite men spent their entire life defending falsehoods and denying the Quran. It is impossible for them to create any reform at all. They will never be able to convince people, who will in turn mock them and make them lose credibility. Deep state men will feel compelled to resort to Azharite men who are not famous in media to make them undertake the mission to dispel illusions and debunk myths of Al-Azhar. Would they be brave enough to face Azharite veterans? They might quote some of our Quranist writings without mentioning our name to defeat ISIS men of Azhar. This is taking place now, we presume.

2- Deep state in Egypt is based on stability and balance games; it feels animosity toward radical changes. That is why entire cancellation and removal of the so-called Sunna and hadiths off Al-Bokhary and others is refused as solution. Piece-meal solutions are preferred; such as omitting parts or chapters in Al-Azhar curricula books in many grades. We are against this tendency and have written about its obnoxious impact in several books and articles published here online. There should be no hadiths and Sunna at all in Islam. They contradict the Quran. Deep state men never bother to read, think, and analyze; they care only for threatening Azharite men by firing them from their posts if they be not obedient enough! Intellectual revolt is a bomb waiting for them all

Fourthly: Recent news in Egypt affirms the above-mentioned facts.

1- Former Egyptian Minister of Culture, Dr. Jabir Asfour, began an initiative to cooperate with Ministry of Religious Endowments to train and educate preachers, but Azharite clergymen caused him to be fired from his post and threatened and terrorized him.

2- Media figure Ibrahim Eissa have attacked, out of the blue, in his TV show some Sunnite falsehoods and myths as well as Azharite men's reluctance to take steps of reform. He has been vehemently attacked and threatened by Azhar in an attempt to terrorize him, but he ignored their threats. Some Egyptian private TV channels hosted in their talk-shows judge Ahmed Abdou Maher who has refuted notions taught within Azharite curricula, and he has proven their danger in the Egyptian society.

3- Azharite ISIS members had to wait for the storm to pass once they realized that threats and accusations are in vain and to no avail. Even law of contempt of religion is being questioned; we surmise that deep state men agree to such waiting period as man Azharite men stopped their vitriol attacks and stopped their threats of litigation.

Lastly: the great truth:

1- ISIS is the devilish offspring of the creed of Wahabism, which is in turn the devilish offspring of the Sunnite Ibn Hanbal extremist doctrine. The Najd Brothers were the precursors of all terrorist organization in the Middle East: the terrorist MB and Al-Qaeda and now ISIS. Massacres committed by ISIS are done under the pretext of applying sharia! It is a catastrophe that Azharite men refused – until recently – to declare ISIS terrorists as apostates who do not represent Islam! ISIS thought is defended in Azhar! Victims are on the rise: killed, massacred, and terrorized victims as well as deluded youths joining the terrorists of ISIS. The real culprits who should be punished and fired out of their posts are the Azharite ISIS members!

2- All Wahabi Sunnite terrorist organizations differ in names but they are all essentially the same in the past, present, and future. All of them are affiliated to the same terrorist Wahabism/Salafism propagated in the Arab world using money of oil-rich KSA and by Al-Azhar institution in Egypt. This is the main cause of the failure of the so-called revolts of Arab Spring. Frustrated youths resort to terror and destruction and murder, and they join ISIS as a result to wreak revenge and vent all bent-up fury.

3- ISIS desire to infiltrate Egypt; its cronies are inside Egyptian land now of course. If religious reform is not commenced as soon as possible, ISIS will spread in Egypt to commit all sorts of heinous crimes. Innocent people will pay the dear price! Reasons that support the view of ISIS spread in Egypt are as follows.

3/1: ISIS members among Azharite men controlling the institution and all religious life activities in Egypt has but one mission: to protect, defend, and preserve the Sunnite/Wahabi/Salafist creed as well as to terrorize and threaten any critic who dares to discuss or refute this creed.

3/2: Salafists stick to propagation and spread of the same creed of ISIS in all mosques, under the auspices of the Ministry of Religious Endowments that is supposed to control mosques, to brainwash frustrated youths to make them join ISIS now and in the future.

3/3: Egyptians feel the brunt of economic crisis and economic reform undertaken by President Al-Sisi bravely. Egyptians suffer the collapse of security and infrastructure. Countless laws require amendments and/or annulment by the Parliament, amid fears that Parliament members might be among Salafists and Mubarak cronies and businessmen who hate change in any sort.

3/4: Egypt is still facing the danger of the terrorist MB members and their twin brothers the Salafis who control countless Upper Egyptian villages and countless mosques. Egypt is still facing the danger of its enemies: MB president of Sudan, ISIS members in Libya, terrorist Hamas organization in Gaza, Turkey, and Qatar. It is a shame that Egypt is being endangered by such dwarfs. Another shame is Egypt begging for financial aid from the UAE and the KSA. We miss the days of Nasser sorely! Amidst such sour conditions, ISIS can recruit frustrated Egyptian youths. Arms are being smuggled through Egyptian borders. Thousands of Salafists are furious due to the Revolution of 30th of June 2013, with terrorist MB president deposed. Salafists are eager to take revenge by destroying Egypt, to avenge their imprisoned leaders.

Lastly: the solution.

1- Religious reform entails free thinkers like us; we mean those who never fear anyone, save God, for the sake of truth. It is OK if deep state chose to apply reform via stages. Deep state men have to face deep-seated corruption and intellectual ruin and void in Azhar, education, media, and Ministry of Religious Endowments that have been there for centuries not decades.

2- Stages of reform entail legislative reforms in the penal and criminal codes and laws. All laws that hinder freedom of thought, religion, and expression have to be abolished. Azhar Law has to be amended. Law of the so-called contempt of religion must be annulled. Media figures must be allowed to discuss and refute all ancient notions of Sunnite and Wahabi creeds.

3- We need committees under the auspices of President Al-Sisi to undertake and execute reform of religious discourse, reform of education, and reform of Al-Azhar, just like committees of economy. Such committees must consist of enlightened thinkers and law-makers and human rights experts. ISIS members of Azhar must not be allowed into such committees. May God curse Azharite ISIS members!


 

Chapter Two:

A TV Show to Face ISIS Sheikhs!

Firstly:

1- Intellectual conflict in Egyptian media has begun between enlightened persons of both genders and ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments. Enlightened citizens have been encouraged by the call for reform of education, Al-Azhar institution, and religious discourse adopted by the Egyptian President Al-Sisi. The main issue in religious reform is to refute the so-called Sunna: Sunnite hadiths authored by Al-Bokhary and his likes and ascribed falsely to Prophet Muhammad. Many Egyptian intellectuals have been encouraged to refute and debunk some of the myths of Sunnite creed and its hadiths and fiqh notions and concepts. When Al-Bokhary has been attacked and criticized, critics have been accused of contempt of Islam and who deserve to be put to death! Azharite ISIS men think that Al-Bokhary is symbol of Islam! If critics of Al-Bokhary are not put to death, Azharite ISIS members assume that at least they should be imprisoned for up to five years for alleged contempt of religion as per Egyptian law! Many Quranists were imprisoned in 2001 because of the same law! This is the terror intellectuals in Egypt face and this is the weapon brandished by Azharite ISIS members against them and against Quranists.

2- Azharite ISIS members in Azhar University and Ministry of Religious Endowments never performed their duty stipulated in Azhar 1961 Law No. 103; they never elucidated and spread the facts of Islam in the Quran. On the contrary, they propagate falsehoods of hadiths and Sunna from books written centuries ago by Al-Bokhary and his likes! Islam's name should be cleared from such lies; yet, ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments go on intentionally hiding, misinterpreting, and distorting Quranic truths for centuries! When we tried to elucidate and clearly write about Quranic facts that refute Sunnite hadiths at Al-Azhar University, we were persecuted and imprisoned.

3- ISIS members of Al-Azhar institution continue to play their subversive role until now; thousands of students-cum-terrorists graduate from Al-Azhar University who killed and destroyed committed heinous crimes inside and outside Egypt. The Egyptian government spent millions on such students and their teachers and sheikhs! The result: terror spread in Egypt! ISIS terrorists in the Levant and Iraq apply now the Sunnite Salafist Wahabi creed of Ibn Hanbal doctrine. This is the same creeds, notions, concepts, and doctrines preserved and protected by ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments. They are afraid of anyone refuting and detracting and debunking such creed, and they threaten critics with death or imprisonment! ISIS has infiltrated into Egypt during the one-year MB occupation of Egypt. This resulted in thousands of frustrated youths recruited by ISIS who aim to destroy and wreak havoc on Egypt as a form of jihad! Even if the Egyptian President decides to hang all of such youth, more thousands will emerge as long as ISIS members/sheikhs of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments go on controlling education, media, and Al-Azhar University! Military and police solutions are not enough; intellectual solutions of religious reform and reform of religious and public education is sourly missed and badly needed. The very first step is to get rid of ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments. The second step is to modulate and change and purge and omit ISIS/Wahabi/Salafist curricula of Al-Azhar University and schools. The third step is to revive and apply Al-Azhar 1961 Law No. 103.

4- President Al-Sisi has to do such steps and take all possible measures and he has to face ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments who control minds of the Egyptians. Otherwise, more terrorists will emerge and their number will increase exponentially with the passage of time. Al-Sisi must abolish the law of the so-called contempt of religion; it is used to terrify free thinkers and intellectuals. This law is used as a weapon brandished to cover and hide the ignorance and protect the stature, positions, and wealth of ISIS members/sheikhs of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments. If no measures are taken as soon as possible, Egypt will fall into ISIS terrorists who hold the Egyptian nationality.

5- We, Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour, have nothing but our love, faith, and belief in God as well as our pen and the research skills. We aim to clear Prophet Muhammad's name from falsehoods and lies that tarnish his reputation. These lies were invented by Al-Bokhary, Ibn Hanbal, Al-Shafei', and their likes of ancient authors of the Middle Ages. We have written more than 4000 Quranist articles, books, historical researches, and religious fatwas. This is unprecedented in the intellectual history of Arabs. Our intellectual writings contain unprecedented school of thought. We have published online for free about 705 of our books. Other writings wait to be published later on. Among our writings are encyclopedias on Sufism and history of the Muhammadans. Research in history is our field of university education and postgraduate studies and theses. We hope to be able to spread and propagate our writings worldwide aiming at peaceful reform. Yet, we only publish on our website here ahl-alquran.com and on ahewar.org, the (Arab Marxists) website named modern discussion. We repeat here that our writings are available for anyone to publish it in print for free, provided that there is no monopoly and distortion of our ideas.

6- Writing books and articles is not as effective as satellite TV channels talk-shows. Wahabis have used TV and created ISIS as a result. ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments inside and outside the ruling regime in Egypt control Egyptian media, education, and Al-Azhar University. The law of the so-called contempt of religion is a sword brandished by ISIS members of Al-Azhar to frighten intellectuals and free thinkers. Within our peaceful endeavor and call for religious reform, no Egyptian satellite channel interviewed us. At one point, Egyptian public TV agreed to a TV series we wrote under the pseudonym Muhammad Ahmed; the name of the series was "Majalis Ibn Eiyas". But once TV employees knew our real name, they prevented us from entering the building of state public TV and Radio, as if we were scum of the earth, and cancelled the project of the series. They accused us of hating the so-called companions of the Prophet. When we sought and granted asylum in the USA, in 2001, we believed that our dreams of getting a Quranist TV show and a Quranist mosque to make it a center of enlightenment. None of that materialized. We have established the International Quranic Center (IQC), a room at our home in Virginia. No one invited us to be a guest in any TV show, except a Christian missionary Cyprus-based channel that held me twice as their guest to talk about Quranism. These two times brought to us threats of being assassinated by Al-Qaeda terrorists. Yet, thousands of formerly Sunnites and Shiites watched us online, and converted to Quranism. If we have a Quranist TV channel, the number of converted ones to Quranism would increase exponentially. ISIS Arab Wahabi and Salafist sheikhs own hundreds of private satellite TV channels. Religious talk-shows in Egypt are controlled by ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments. Some secular, cultural, and Shiite channels are interested in facing ISIS and other organizations of terror; yet, they do not dare to interview us. Until when will this shameful ignoring of Quranism and its founder go on?

7- Debate within Egyptian media around ISIS and Wahabism and Sunna revolves around what we have raised in the early 1990s in our articles and books to refute Sunnite creed notions. In 1993, our books on refuting the myth of the torment of the grave and refuting the killing of apostates caused a heated debate, and we suffered persecution. We had no authority or power to do anything, and that was why we have been left in peace later on soon enough. Later on, Mubarak incarcerated us, incited by the KSA. Now Egypt has a new enlightened and powerful President: Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, who has realized the vital importance of reforming education, Al-Azhar, and religious discourse. This is what we have called for for 30 years. Yet, the current debate in Egyptian media ignores mentioning our name!

8- We do not aim at realizing fame or wealth; anyone can present our ideas and publish them in print even without mentioning our name. Our only hope is to witness the victory of our intellectual project that began in 1977 and its spreading in Egypt. We would like to witness the fruition of our endeavors and the result of our on-going suffering in our exile. This is not a personal issue; we are the only one with a project that can refute and undermine and face intellectually ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments who control and corrupt Egypt. Could such intellectual project of religious reform be discussed without its founder, who is still alive?!

9- Several people reproached us because we have accepted to appear as a guest in a Christian missionary TV show, presented by a convert to Christianity who was a former Sunnite man. Instead, those who have criticized us should have directed their blame and rebuke against those who prevent our appearance in any TV show in any Egyptian or Arab channel. Even some Egyptian TV shows presenters attacked Quranism without listening to any Quranists or allow them to defend their line thought. Is this media neutrality?!

Lastly:

1- Drawing nearer to the grave, our dreams dwindled. We cannot now hope to own a TV program or show confined to Quranism. Yet, we desire very much to be interviewed as a guest in any TV program or show to expose ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments. We are ready to appear in a hundred episodes of the show/program for free. We will allow it to be uploaded online with comments enabled, even if people slander and verbally abuse us. We would like to end our life journey with this achievement.

2- We present this desire to all Satellite TV channels of any orientation who aim at exposing and facing ISIS terrorists and ISIS members of Al-Azhar and Ministry of Religious Endowments. We do not care whether this channel is a Christian missionary one, a Jewish Zionist one, a secular one, an atheist one, a Shiite one, or a Sunnite one. The only thing we care for here is not to omit any of our words via montage.                 

3- Is there any reasoning man or woman to invite us for free to their TV program/show?


 

A Notification Addressed to Free People in Egypt to Get Rid of The ISIS Sheikhs Who Control Al-Azhar                                         

Introduction:

1- To resist the vitriol attack and century against Al-Bokhary (the deity of ISIS Wahabis and Salafists of Sunnite Ibn Hanbal doctrine),The ISIS members of Al-Azhar issued a statement to threaten everyone; they claim that they will form a black list of those who incite the public by raising topics in the media to shake the faith of Egyptian people in the 'staples' of Islam, in the ancient scholars/imams, and in Azharite scholars. They announced that curricula of Al-Azhar secondary education and of Al-Azhar University would be changed with omissions and modulations of certain controversial points/topics to contain and control extremist thought and to foil attempts of slander and attack against Azharite scholars. This is an apparent maneuver to wait for the media storm to calm. This is a maneuver wielded along with the sword brandished against free thinkers; namely, five-year imprisonment term after being accused of contempt of religion. Such statements show that Azharite ISIS clergymen aim at feigning change; if this is true, at least it will stop its corrupt meddling in Egyptian policies for years to come. This might prevent deterioration of Egyptian cultural and religious life.

2- All Azharite employees and clergy care only for their wealth and positions and authority. They will omit chapters and entire books from all curricula if necessary to maintain their status. During the 1990s in Cairo, a project aiming at reforming religious education was proposed by us. Azharite scholars got mad and furious at us, and then omitted some lines from some books! This was done to appease the furor caused by Egyptian media. The head of Al-Azhar at the time, the late Sheikh M. Sayed Tantaoui seized the chance to make his books within the curricula. This changed announced recently might omit all his books. All Azharite employees and clergymen are corrupt; they do NOT care for the welfare and security or even the leadership and future of Egypt.

3- Will the free citizens of Egypt remain silent before the suffocating grip of ISIS Azharite members?! This is a statement to ring the alarm bells to raise the awareness of all Egyptians!

Firstly: Individual political will and its role in getting rid of Azharite ISIS members:

1- Mubarak's political will was to acquiesce to Azharite clergymen; they had free reins to spread Wahabism, Salafism, and Ibn Hanbal doctrine of ISIS. Mubarak aimed at appearing more religious than his competitors to gain authority: the terrorist MB group members. Mubarak had to prove his loyalty to the KSA; he imprisoned Quranists of Egypt in four waves of arrest from 1987 to 2009. 63 Quranists, including us, were imprisoned for the first time in 1987 when accused by denying the so-called Sunna or Sunnite hadiths and fiqh. We fled the arrest wave of 2001 by seeking asylum in the USA. In this last wave, some Quranists in Egypt received sentences from 3- to 5-year terms in prison. After the launching of our Quranist website, the last wave occurred in 2007-2009, that included some of our relatives in Egypt. They were tormented and incarcerated under no accusations; Mubarak wanted to appease the KSA and to prove to the Saudi king that he was beneficial to the KSA more than the terrorist MB members and groups of Salafists.

2- The bad political will of Mubarak was faced by us via our insistence to face and expose Wahabism everywhere with our articles and books. That is why we have been persecuted, imprisoned, and humiliated in Egypt, and our books were confiscated in 1987 and in 1990.

3- In the 1990s, Wahabi Salafist terrorists committed crimes of terror to challenge Mubarak and they controlled some areas of Upper Egypt. They committed their terrorist crimes against Orthodox Copts and Coptic churches and against tourists. Later on, their terror extended to some intellectuals and writers and some authority figures. ISIS Azharite members wagered that their dream of a theocratic state was about to be realized. This did not occur, however. Mubarak had to face such a huge wave of terror. He had to enlist the aid of free Egyptian thinkers. The men of Mubarak contacted us; they needed an Islamic thinker who believes in human rights. We joined then the body they called "The Popular Front against Terror". We, along with other members of this body, used to travel to hot beds of Upper Egypt, where Salafist terrorists thrived. We used to console victims and Copts in churches and villages. State security Apparatus men were in our service then, and all other governmental bodies. Governors of Asyut and Suhag Governorates welcomed us. We used to hold meetings with ministers of education, information, and interior. Many of our books were reprinted many times. When Mubarak felt he was in control and Azharite sheikhs declared that imprisoned terrorists and their leaders have 'repented', Mubarak renewed his pact with Azharite clergymen, who in turn urged him to persecute us. During the first half of the Mubarak era, sheikh Jad-Al-Haq was the head of Al-Azhar institution. His ignorance was manifested by his faults in Arabic grammar; he never memorized the Quranic verses as he used to read them in papers in all his sermons. He confiscated a huge palace in the Cairene upper class district of Maadi to himself for his residence! This palace used to be a Girls Azharite Secondary School! This sheikh used to cooperate in the publicity for Wahabi fraudulent sheikhs' companies that swindled poor people's money in the name of 'Islamic' halal trade! This sheikh had to declare that interests of banks are prohibited in Islam, for the benefit of his swindlers! This mortified the Mubarak regime. We wrote two articles in the Cairene newspaper Al-Akhbar to prove that banks interests are NOT against sharia laws of prohibiting usury. Azharite sheikhs attacked verbally us in media; as a result, our later articles were prevented from appearing in Al-Akhbar newspaper. Mubarak as usual persecuted us in favor of Azharite sheikhs! The mufti (who issues fatwas in Azhar) was M. Sayed Tantaoui, who was the head of Al-Azhar in the second half of Mubarak era. He declared that bank investments certificates are halal. Jad-Al-Haq incited the Deputy General against us; and we told the Deputy General that we quote the Quran to prove them wrong, and they cannot refute the Quranic verses. We told him that we defend Egyptian banks and the investments despite the fact that we had no bank account at all in Egypt or elsewhere at the time. We told him that if the head of Al-Azhar hated banks, he would have to stop using the Egyptian pound printed in Egyptian Mint of the Central Bank. The Deputy General released us in the same day after the interrogation. At last, Mubarak persecution of us reached unprecedented level; we had to flee to the USA. Azhar ignoramuses regained control of all mosques and the minds of the youth. The result, terrorists who learned at Al-Azhar threaten Egypt now! The reason: they have learned through mosque sermons, Azharite books, and media that committing massacres against innocent people is a form of jihad! Such youths are victims in their turn, and the real culprits are the Azharite ISIS sheikhs/members!

Secondly: Until when would silence reign supreme, O free citizens of Egypt?!

1- The atmosphere is ideal in Egypt now; all published material here online and in modern discussion website and YouTube videos of us is our intellectual endeavor for more than 20 years. Read and propagate it all over Egypt, O free people of Egypt! Internet removes all boundaries, and it helped to spread the concept of Quranism all over the Arab world among the intellectuals, and ISIS Azharite men feel panicked because of this. ISIS members apply Sunnite Wahabism to the letter; the same Wahabi Sunnite thought taught in Azhar. President Al-Sisi has given green light to call for reform of religious discourse and education. All free thinkers of Egypt should unite to achieve this end. Let us all face ISIS Azharite men entails that every thinker should cooperate with the call of the Egyptian President in his war against ignorance, obscurantism, and terrorism.

2- This is not a difficult effort; our online books, fatwas, and articles should be propagated, as they cover all controversial issues and topics that need reform and/or omission. All our writings expose ISIS thought spread in Al-Azhar.                                  


 

A Call for Creating Websites to Expose The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar: Stories of Some of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar

 These stories are real, but names are omitted. These real stories relate some of aspects of the darker hidden side of the ISIS Azharite members.

Firstly: the first story: the sheikh and the two adolescent boys:

1- In May 1976, we knew that former colleagues of ours who entered the Arabic Language Department, Al-Azhar University, and later on worked as secondary school teachers upon graduation came to Cairo to supervise girls secondary Azharite school exams, in Maadi. This school was a huge and spacious palace confiscated later on by Sheikh Jad-Al-Haq to become his residence, after making the State build a new school instead! We went to visit our former colleagues, who lived at the time in hostel beside this school in Maadi. Their mission was to supervise exams and their corrections. They were led by the headmaster of their original Azharite secondary school in a (Lower Egypt) Delta governorate. At the time, we were preparing our Ph.D. thesis about Sufism in the Mameluke Era. We reached at the time the chapter on the close link between Sufism and homosexuality. So many old Sufis, who later on became 'saints', in the Mameluke Era were pederasts and often had sex with beardless and hairless youths, and made this part of their Sufi creed!  We chatted over the subject of this chapter in our thesis with those former colleagues, and instead of seeing surprise in their faces, we saw smirks and smiles when they asked us for further information on Sufism. They sniggered and looked at one another knowingly, and we asked them to explain their attitude. They told us that my speech reminded them of the following shocking story.

2- Within exams corrections rooms, two adolescent boys were present; they were no teachers of course, and they were not students, because this was a girls-only school. Both adolescent boys dealt arrogantly with all those adults around them. We asked about their strange unjustified presence in this location. They told us this shocking story. The leader sheikh of this group of teachers coming from Delta never moved anywhere unless with the company of these two adolescent boys. They spent their nights with him at his chamber as well! They were accompanying him even in his Delta school, in his offices and at home! The two adolescent boys had such authority over teachers and the sheikh's sons to the extent that no one can ask the sheikh a favor unless using the two adolescent boys as mediators! People whispered behind the sheikh's back that the two adolescent boys share the same bed with the sheikh! The sheikh overlooked their bad behavior and their harassment of girls as well as their helping some girls to cheat! All of us felt certain that the sheikh was having sex with both boys!

3- What about this sheikh and his family?

Secondly: the second story: this sheikh and his family:

1- This sheikh was a Sufi, who headed a Sufi order called Ahmediyya; i.e., related to a Sufi saint called Ahmed Al-Badawi. Such Sufi creed considered a tenet that having sex with adolescent hairless boys is a way to experience a Sufi trance to get nearer to the beauty and greatness of God, or to be united with God! How come such sin was to be seen as an act of worship?! This was heretic and blasphemous, of course. In short, this sheikh was a pederast! He was the teacher that upon his hands so many Azharite scholars graduated! He sued to have power and authority in the Delta governorate where he resided and worked. Thousands of his disciples used to revere and sanctify him as a 'holy' man! He was even a member in the Socialist Party of Nasser, and he was known with his moralistic attitude, love of poetry, sweet talk, and generosity. Yet, he was a pederast!

2- This sheikh's family claimed to be among the descendants of Prophet Muhammad's daughter! They used to tell tales and lies that their great great forefather came from Hejaz to Egypt. This family gave its name to the village in Delta where they reside. This pederast sheikh had an elder brother who was a teacher in the same schools in the same Delta village. Yet, he was less eloquent than his pederast younger brother, who led the Sufi order he headed to elevated levels of fame. The elder brother married the daughter of an Azharite Professor in Al-Azhar University, who followed the same Sufi order. This professor enjoyed power and authority in the Faculty of Religious Sciences. Hence, the elder brother, his in-law, got the Ph.D. degree easily, despite his being a well-known ignoramus! His teaching career in the secondary stage was a failure; yet, he came to be a Professor at Al-Azhar University! His younger pederast brother was promoted to be the headmaster of the same Azharite secondary school in the Delta village. He turned the school into a part-time center to spread the Sufi order teachings and tenets! When we saw this pederast in Cairo in 1976, he was at the top of his fame and power!

3- The elder brother, the ignorant Professor, was promoted soon enough and he hired so many new professors in the faculty who were affiliated to the same Sufi order! All of them are ignoramuses who competed for more power and authority! Al-Azhar University was filled with miracles and wonders, indeed! The most famous among them was a son of a poor peasant.

Thirdly: the third story: the story of the son of a poor peasant:

1- This son of the poor peasant was not related to the family that headed the Sufi order; rather, as a child, he was raised in a nearby village in a poor family of peasants. Later on he became the 'Godson' of the elder brother within the Sufi order. Such relation between a disciple and his Sufi tutor facilitate some sort of blind obedience like slavery, and sometimes facilitated homosexual and heterosexual love affairs in the Mameluke Era! The Ahmediyya Sufi order was known for urging homosexuality as a form of a Sufi practice since the Mameluke Era and until now! This Godson was overambitious; he knew he descended from an impoverished family of naïve and simple-minded nobodies. He officially took the surname of his Godfather, the elder brother of the pederast sheikh. He enrolled in the faculty in Azhar University as his son, and the pederast was to become his paternal uncle!

2- With his new name, and with his oratory skills and by exerting influence and efforts within his social circle, the Godson led all students in the secondary school and urged them to demonstrate in marches for political reasons; yet, he gave the names of other troublemakers and leaders in these marches to the State Security Apparatus in Egypt! He was the eye of the Apparatus there! He flunked his secondary school exams, but 'managed' to succeed in the following year using the power and influence of the Sufi order family! It was no surprise that he would enroll in the faculty controlled by his Godfather! He graduated soon enough, as if he had latent high IQ that appeared suddenly! He got his Ph.D. degree four years later in the field of Sunnite hadiths, to be appointed as a teacher in the faculty, and to be later on promoted to the post of the Dean!

Lastly:

1- We hope someone would launch a website specializing in exposing all scandals of Azharite ISIS members who are a bunch of hypocrites who deem themselves as representatives of Islam; in fact, they are the most corrupt people in Egypt!

2- Until when would Egyptians let such sheikhs urinate inside their minds?!                      

Chapter Three: 1) What Will Egypt Lose By Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar? 2) What Will Egypt Gain By Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar?

What Will Egypt Lose By Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar?

Firstly: Egypt vs. ISIS: struggle for existence

1-Egyptian newspapers headlines have shown recently statements like the following: "After vitriolic attack on Al-Bokhary, Al-Azhar and Waqfs demand new laws against ignorant people undermining religion"; it is as if the existing law of the so-called contempt of religion does not suffice to terrorize free thinkers to prevent any discussion of Wahabism, the umbrella term for the Sunnite/Salafist/ Ibn Hanbal creed of ISIS and the terrorist MB! Do the Azharite ISIS sheikhs dare to ask for a special law to incriminate and imprison those who refute Al-Bokhary as well?! Yes, of course, so that they feel better and safe about their posts and huge salaries and financial rewards with no troubles whatsoever!

2- Their ill-gotten money is not the only persisting problem; it is the struggle for existence. They demand to exist despite the fact that they defend and propagate ISIS religion of Wahabism, which has nothing to do with Islam! Thus, they threaten the existence of Egypt itself! Egypt must get rid of Azharite ISIS members so that it may flourish and go on! This is not an overstatement or a sort of exaggeration. This is a fact, plain and simple. There are two dominant but contradictory creeds in Egypt. The first one is the 40-year-old creed of Sunnite jihadist Ibn Hanbal terrorist MB ISIS Wahabism, on which Egyptian people have been brought up in the last four decades. This creed is the one helping ISIS Azharite members to control Al-Azhar, mosques, Waqfs, education, and media. One famous Salafist sheikh said in a TV channel that most 'Muslims' of Egypt are Salafists! Salafism is another synonymous term for Wahabism, the creed of ISIS! If Egypt does not get rid of ISIS members of Al-Azhar soon enough, ISIS will control and lead Egypt into a dark abyss for decades to come! Egyptian ISIS to come soon would kill all Coptic orthodox Egyptians! Orthodox creed tenets include the notion of martyrdom; one is to let his enemies kill one without resistance on one's part, for the sake of joining the Kingdom of Christ! ISIS terrorist members kill to gain more houris in the Hereafter! Hence, the majority of Salafists/Wahabis would kill all the minority of Copts one day! This is the desire of all Wahabis: Egypt free from all non-Wahabis to impose Wahabism all over the land! Hence, if Egypt is willing to go on and to exist, ISIS culture must be eliminated; thus, ISIS Azharite members must be stopped. The query is raised now: what will Egypt lose by getting rid of the ISIS members of Al-Azhar?

Secondly: ISIS members of Al-Azhar are supposed to be employees in service of the Egyptian State, not to be agents to destroy it:

1- Al-Azhar institution is a civil – not ecclesiastical – body whose mission is supposed to be caring for Islamic matters and affairs. Hence, the Egyptian State is the one to take control of it by law, as it pays salaries of its employees. Such employees must NOT be against the State and their mission. The problem is that Azharite ISIS members are chosen by State Security Apparatus men! Azharite men are under the control of State Security Apparatus men, who expect blind obedience! Qualifications of Azharite men include their being corrupt, under control, with their own scandals to be under the continuing threat of exposure if they dare to criticize the tyrant ruler! Azharite men are to sing the praises of all rulers! State Security Apparatus men can never promote or appoint in Al-Azhar those real scholars/researchers whose sole aim is reform and progress. Such type is never under control and will never be among the flattering hypocrites. Hence, the appointed ones are the flattering hypocritical corrupt ignoramuses who never use reasoning minds to reform anything. Hence, they punish those who call for reform and try to apply their reasoning minds on texts! This Azharite ISIS members' persecution occurred to Egyptian Quranists, because they showed ignorance and deficiency of Azharite sheikhs!

2- This is no longer a personal problem for Quranists; this is a headache to all Egypt. Will Egypt endure a possible civil strife reminiscent of Syria and Iraq?!

Thirdly: it is not enough to get rid of Azharite ISIS members; they should be judged in Egyptian courts

1- After four decades of domination and control of corrupt ignoramuses of Al-Azhar institution, Egypt is on the brink of collapse. Why Wahabism, ISIS religion, is still taught in Azharite curricula?! Why Wahabism, the evil terrorist creed, is being defended by Azharite men?! Why critics, debunkers, and refuters of Wahabism are being threatened by law to be punished with a five-year imprisonment term in Egypt?! Why Azharite men incite terrorism in their curricula and enjoy impunity?! They have ignored their original mission to elucidate and show facts and tenets of Islam in the Quran, as per Al-Azhar Law No. 103. They use the law of the so-called contempt of religion to silence all free thinkers and defend ISIS religion: Wahabism and Salafism. They should be judged in courts. Their teachings caused the killings of tens of thousands of Egyptians: among Quranists, Orthodox Copts, Shiites, free thinkers, creators, artists, and writers. Until when Egypt will tolerate the sins and crimes of ISIS Azharite members?! It is impossible to reform religious discourse as long as ISIS sheikhs remain in Al-Azhar. Why on earth Egypt is to keep such employees who are failures?! We can accuse them of high treason against Egypt; they have worked on destroying our beloved Egypt.

2- Without getting rid of Azharite ISIS sheikhs, all Arabs and Egyptians will face religious and sectarian strife incited by Azharite curricula and Azharite religious discourse. Are such men dearer to Egypt than Islam?! Egypt's security and safety is far more important than Al-Azhar and its sheikhs. Saving the blood of Egyptians is more important than a thousand institutions! Would Egypt sacrifice its military army, police, stature, citizens, and position in the Arab world to preserve ISIS sheikhs of Al-Azhar?! The question is still looming in the air: What will Egypt lose by getting rid of the ISIS members of Al-Azhar?

What Will Egypt Gain By Getting Rid of The ISIS Members of Al-Azhar?

Firstly: the necessity of reforming Al-Azhar institution:

1- Al-Azhar institution now in its present conditions is like a time bomb that threatens all Egypt with a huge massive explosion that will destroy everything. If Egypt gets rid of corrupt, ignorant ISIS members of Al-Azhar institution, a new Egyptian renaissance will take place to elevate stature and position of Egypt, and prosperity, peace, and welfare and dignity will be restored.

2- After four decades of economic failure, thievery, looting, robbery, and corruption, Egypt is heavily in debts to foreign powers. No piece-meal temporary solutions, like resorting to the international monetary fund and stopping state subsidies, can take place now; radical solutions are to be sought. Egypt faces harsh battles to regain smuggled money and lands sold in cheap prices during the corrupt era of Mubarak. Meanwhile, Egypt spends millions annually on Al-Azhar institution and its ISIS professors and clergymen who incite terrorism in their Wahabi/Salafist curricula and sermons! Corrupt religious education inculcates tenets of terrorism in minds of the youth, recruited later on by jihadists like ISIS. How come Egypt is spending millions to get more generations of terrorists-to-be?! This is absurd! This is an unprecedented catastrophe! Egypt should save such millions to increase its annual budget and spare itself possible terrorism. This will be gained if Egypt decides to get rid of ISIS members of Al-Azhar institution.

3- We are not talking about something imaginary or too hard to achieve; it is quite possible for a brave man like the Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi with his political will, single-handedly, to take such a great step which will never be objectionable to the Egyptian citizens, due to his popularity as among them as their leader. He should amend Al-Azhar Law No. 103, of 1961 to make it assert the civil governmental nature of Al-Azhar institution and to ensure that facts and tenets of Islam is found exclusively in the Quran. Such law should be amended to assert that Al-Azhar institution has a mission to defend higher values of Islam (justice, freedom, charity, tolerance, mercy, peace, and dignity). Al-Azhar institution mission should include facing injustice, tyranny, and the so-called farce named 'political' Islam! Al-Azhar institution should side against the use of religion in politics.

Secondly: direct reformation results of reforming Al-Azhar institution

 Reformation of Al-Azhar institution entails a number of reformation steps as follows.

1- The Criminal Law and Penal Code in Egypt must be amended to cope with higher values of justice, freedom of thought, cult, and expression, and absolute religious freedom for all Egyptians.

2- Radical change in Al-Azhar schools and university curricula is of paramount importance; new curricula have to assert higher values of Islam (justice, civil liberties, religious freedom, charity, tolerance, mercy, peace, and dignity). All traces of Wahabism and Salafism are to be omitted, because they are linked to Middle-Ages tyranny, enslavement, backwardness, and injustice.

3- Al-Azhar University must close down branches of Faculty of Religious Sciences and Faculty of Islamic Studies as well as the Sharia Section in Azharite faculties of law, in Cairo and other governorates. These faculties are enemies of the Quran; they are locations where lies and falsehoods against Islam, the Quran alone, are being taught, especially ISIS Wahabi and Salafist notions. All notions of Middle-Ages fiqh (jurisprudence) and its lies and fabrications called hadiths are the main reasons behind backwardness and regression of Arabs since the Second Abbasid Era until now. Such notions are unfit to our modern times of science, IT, and advancements in all fields that increase exponentially. The alternative is to turn such faculties into higher IT institutions. Departments of Islamic history and civilization should have entirely new curricula that urge reasoning, critical thinking, and creativity within higher values of Islam. Students are to learn scientific research methodology in intellectual, social, and religious history of Arabs; not to memorize history by heart and deem it holy! Students need to be taught more philosophy, psychology, and linguistics. They are to learn history as factors that have influenced and developed the present creeds of Shiites, Sunnites, and Sufis, as human, earthly, man-made creeds that has nothing to do with the Quran. Students are to be taught historical, social, cultural, and political factors that have impacted creeds and cults, and how old pagan creeds infiltrated the Islamic intellectual thought via new concepts and notions disguised as 'Islamic'.

4- All other Azharite bodies are to be abolished, like Supreme Council of Research, Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Fatwa House, etc. and to confine Al-Azhar role to maters stipulated in Al-Azhar Law No. 103, after its amendments.

5- All men and women over 60 years old are to retire, and this includes even the Head of Al-Azhar himself.

6- Head of Al-Azhar must be elected, not chosen by the President of Egypt, from among Al-Azhar University Professors who admit their papers for the post. Many professors in faculties of medicine, agriculture, engineering, etc. are not allowed to be heads of Al-Azhar institution, leaving the post for hypocritical ignoramuses. This must be reversed as soon as possible; they must be allowed to compete for this post.

Thirdly: Egypt has no choice but to begin reform now

1- Such steps must take place as soon as possible; Egypt cannot afford the luxury of waiting for more time! A committee of men of the law can undertake the mission. If reforming Azharite education curricula would take years, schools of Al-Azhar should be added to the system of the public ones until Quranism-based curricula are inserted that urge researching the Quran and the higher values of Islam and that highlight the moralistic aspect of Islam.

2- Those who object to reform within Al-Azhar institution should be compelled to retire or be judged in court and imprisoned for high treason against the State and against Islam. Azharite ISIS men may go to Hell. Egypt must fight its battle for existence and progress.

Fourthly: imprisonment is for rectification not for destroying souls

1- Imprisonment is NOT an Islamic punishment. Those who suffer are the imprisoned person's family: wife, children, parents, and relatives who depend on him financially. The motto in Islam is not to punish others for the sin of other people: "…no soul bears the burdens of another…" (6:164). Punishment in Islam, as well as guidance, is a personal matter. Imprisonment as a punishment in its state now in Egypt is painful, unjust, and expensive. Those who really suffer are the incarcerated person's family. Prisons are now schools for teaching crimes, not rectifying institutions. Egyptian laws allow police officers to imprison suspects for certain number of days. This is most unfair. We ourselves have been imprisoned for days on twice occasions, in one cell with killers, jihadists, and thieves! We know quite well the amount of this suffering, especially for those imprisoned for political reasons.

2- Most Egyptian prisons are located in Cairo and in main cities; such centrality is suffocating just as the fact that 95% of Egyptian citizens reside at the Nile Valley, leaving vast areas of East and West deserts and Sinai under-populated. We propose to close down the current prisons and to establish new open prisons located within Egyptian borders with Libya and Sudan, to be heavily guarded by the military officers. No one would escape to die in deserts. Within such open prisons, factories and farms are to be established to make prisoners work in them, maybe along with their family members if they desire it, for their wages until their imprisonment terms are over. Hence, Egyptian borders will be defended in a better manner, and economic growth will be achieved as well as the rectifying purposes of incarceration. Egyptian desert land will be populated gradually as a result. New societies and cities will be formed in new locations. This will establish a new concept of internal immigration. Army recruits among university graduates as well as impoverished youths can come to work and own lands and houses in the desert. Camps to train and rectify homeless children can be established to turn them into good productive citizens. Internal immigration is better than temporary works in Gulf monarchies that humiliate many Egyptians. Treasures of metals and oil and other minerals wait for us to explore in Egyptian deserts. New cities and town will be established to make room for the population growth.

3- The above-mentioned topic is closely linked to the punishment of ISIS Azharite men; they are to be banished away from main cites and be imprisoned in open prisons as described above. This is the Islamic punishment for them, where they will enjoy perusal of Al-Bokhary books and other tomes of Wahabism and Salafism there without causing much trouble!

4- This is the Islamic punishment in the Quran for Azharite ISIS men: "The punishment for those who fight God and His Messenger, and strive to spread corruption on earth, is that they be killed, or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be banished from the land. That is to disgrace them in this life; and in the Hereafter they will have a terrible punishment." (5:33). We personally choose for them banishment. This befits all terrorists who commit the crimes of indiscriminate killings of innocent people: like Al-Qaeda, the MB, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, and all jihadists of any similar terrorist organizations. Their massacres and crimes of rape, theft, and enslavement in the name of Islam deserve punishment for tarnishing the name of Islam when they ascribe their heinous crimes to it. Hence, punishments mentioned in 5:33 apply to them as per their separate types of crimes. Those who killed are to be hanged. Those who raped and stole and destroyed deserve crucifixion and cutting off their legs and hands. As for those who incited terror in sermons and books, they are to be banished in the manner described above. This banishment suits Azharite ISIS members and sheikhs perfectly to prevent them from harming Egyptian citizens.

5- Azharite ISIS men should be banished in a faraway place to keep them away from people's way to progress and security. Egypt thus will regain its peace, glory, security, political and strategic leadership, flourishing, economic growth, position, and stature.                                      

CONCLUSION

1- Let us remember the words of the believer among the retinue of Moses' Pharaoh: "You will remember what I am telling you, so I commit my case to God. God is Observant of the servants." (40:44). We tend to believe that Moses' Pharaoh, while drowning, might have remembered the words of this member of his retinue.

2- Finally, we say the same Quranic verse to all men who rule and control Egypt: "You will remember what I am telling you, so I commit my case to God. God is Observant of the servants." (40:44). God says nothing but the Truth, even if ISIS members hate this Truth.

Dr. Ahmed Subhy Mansour

September 10, 2014