When I started

When I started sharing this novel idea with Hindu, 

Muslim and Christian friends, without exception, their immediate reaction 

was one of mirth, they giggled and laughed. Most ofthem not realising that 

the joke was on them. The boot was on the other foot. Though the word 

"anus"is a very small word, only four letters in English, most people have 

not heard it. One is forced to use the colloquial substitute which I hesitate to 

reproduce here, nor will I use the sarne in public meetings because of 

people's hypersensitivity - because in the words ofAbdullah Yusuf Ali, people 

"HAD PERVERTED THEIR LANGUAGE ONCE BEAUTIFUL, INTO JARGONS OF 

EMPTY ELEGANCE AND UNMEANING FUTILITY." 

Therefore to ease the situation, in a round-about-way let us say that where 

you have an "input," you must allow for an "output." The one who eats, must 

have the call of nature - the toilet or the bush - and our primitive friend 

smelt the need, which he could never attribute to his Creator. Therefore, he 

called his God - ATNATU! 'The one without the excretory system or its 

tail end.

GOD EATS NOT!

This novel concept of God by primitive man, is not really altogether novel. 

God Almighty conveys the same truth to mankind, as in His Last and Final 

Revelation - The Holy Qur'an - but in a language so noble, so sublime, as 

befitting its Author. But because of its very finesse, and refined manner of 

expression we have overlooked the Message. We are commanded

CONCEPT FROM THE WEST

The Anglo/Saxon and the Teuton in their own and other allied European 

languages call their object of worship "GOD" or words of similar sound and 

import, i.e. 

The ancient Phoenicians called their God - ALLON - (not far from Allah if we 

could only hear it articulated), and the CanaanitesADO. The Israelites not 

only shared the word EL with the original people ofPalestine, but borrowed 

the name of their chief deity - ADO and turned it into ADONAI, and 

everywhere the four-letter word YHWH occured in their Holy Scriptures, they 

read "Adonai"instead of "Yahuwa."You will not fail to notice the 

resemblance between the Jewish Adonai and the heathen Adonis. ADONIS 

was a"beautiful godling loved by Venus" in the Greek pantheon. 

THE LATIN CONCEPT

In the Latin-dominated languages of Western Europe,where Latin had 

remained dominant in learning and diplomacy for centuries, the chief term 

used for God is DEUS: 

God

ALMOST ISLAMIC

ALMOST ISLAMIC

Now, compare the above verses with my free hand translation of what the 

Zulu actually said: 

Every African tribe, South of the Zambesi River, that is, in Southern Africa, 

have given different names to the Almighty - Tixo, Modimo, uNkulunkulu

etc., and each and every African language group will take pains to explain 

the same pure and holy concept as the Zulu. It is to the glory of the African

nations that though they had no written languages, and hence no written 

records, therefore not being able to recount the names of their respective 

prophets, yet not a single one of the tribes ever stooped down to 

worshipping idols or images of either of men or animals, until the White ma

first introduced his religion and gave the African his anthropomorphic 

concept of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, 

and

THE CONCEPTS

In the religious terminology of the world, we will find that every "son of man" 

in his own way, in his own dialect, has given some beautiful attributive name 

for the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth. 

THE ZULU CONCEPT

In our own country, South Africa, the Zulus, a veryvirile and militant people 

- a nation akin to the Qureish of pre-Islamic Arabia- have given a name to 

God Almighty - uMVELINQANGI. This word when properlyarticulated in its 

own dialect, sounds identical to the Arabic word Walla-hu-gani,meaning - 

"And Allah is Rich"(Bounteous). It also sounds like "Allegany"of the Red 

Indians of North America (Remember their ALLEGANY

DEVOURING FIRE

Out of the encyclopaedia of 73 Books of the Roman Catholics and 66 Books 

of the Protestants called the "BIBLE",

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endless number of quotations can be 

culled to fill a book larger than this publication to illustrate man's various 

imperfect descriptions of God. The above examples will suffice, I hope. 

In the realm of the spirit, no nation has had as much opportunities as the 

children of Israel. And despite repeated warnings to the effect that: 'THY 

GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD, HE SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE HIM, 

NOT EVEN OF THE LIKENESS OF THE THINGS ON EARTH, OR IN THE 

HEAVENS ABOVE, OR IN THE WATERS BENEATH THE SEA . . .' (Exodus 20:3-

5), they took the golden calf for worship, and again and again reverted into 

idolatry. Nor is the bulk of Christendom any freer from this taint. Visit St. 

Paul's Cathedral in London, or St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome and