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
to say to
all those who wish to wean us from the worship of the One True God -
Súra An-ám 6:14
In other words, we are made to declare that - "WE
WILL NOT TAKE ANYONE AS OUR LORD AND PROTECTOR, OTHER THAN
ALLAH, WHO IS THE WONDERFUL ORIGINATOR OF THE UNIVERSE." And if
any have misgivings about his so called "man-gods" or "god-men," then
bring him down to earth, for our God is the One who feeds but is not fed.
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He is not in need of food. Does your man-god eat? Ordoesn't he? If he does,
then he MUST submit to the call of nature - OUR GOD EATS NOT!How
simple the logic, yet how stupendous the argument. Alas! We need primitive
man to remind us of the potency of our weapons. We have lost the art or the
knack of propagation, because for a good many centuries we have stopped
preaching Islam to those around us.
The Christians are knocking at our doors. Only the spiritually blind and the
"ostriches" in our midst cannot see. Kuwait had just one Arab Christian
family about fifty years ago. Today there are 35 Churches in that little
country. The Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian sect which originated in the
U.S.A. a hundred years ago, are claiming that the 2nd largest group of
Jehovah's Witnesses outside their country of origin, is the Muslim country of
Nigeria.
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In Indonesia, the largest Muslim populated country in the world, there are
over 6 000 full-time Christian missionaries (Muballighs),not priests,
parsons or ministers attached to their respective Churches, but propagators
(Crusaders) of their Faith to the non-Christians - harassing "the heathen,"
as they call them. These Christians missionaries have more private air-strips
of their own than the Indonesian Government has. They have mission ships
that anchor off the islands, because Indonesia is acountry of over 2 000
islands, which have no harbour or docking facilities. They invite the native
for refreshment and entertainment on board the shipand subtly initiate them
into their blasphemy. In their operation code named "overkill,"they are
aiming to make Indonesia a Christian Nation by the turn of the century.
Of the over 60 000 missionaries raising dust throughout
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