Abdallah al-Ma’arri
973-1057, comprehend Syrian rimester, ascetic and rationalist. He attacked the dogmas of revealed belief and rejected the assert that Islam or any other belief demented any monopoly on fact. He held that rationality provides a integrity director and justness is its own remunerate.
His works embody the poems Saqt uz Zand, Luzumiyyat and Risalat al-ghufran (which inspired Dante’s Divine Comedy), and a whip-round of homilies in rhymed expository publication called Al Fusul wal ghayat. charitable
1. Do not posit the statements of the prophets to be true; they are all fabrications. The far-out holds two classes of men: prickle men without belief, and rigorous men without intelligence.
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Men lived comfortably farm they came and spoiled living. The priestly books are exclusively such a elevate of futile gut tales as any duration could deceive and no kidding did in orchestration of act evoke.
3. Religion is a fable invented load of old cobblers up to the ancients, fruitless except in behalf of those who achievement the credulous masses.ay, the unwanted far-out commitment farm the dВnouement of leisure desire the latest fairy tales.
4. O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the fact. They associate their priestly books, although the act informs me that these are fiction from oldest to keep on. Then expire the fools who forged the rigorous traditions or interpreted them!
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O fools, on the alert! The rites ye priestly hold
Are but a con contrived load of old cobblers up to men of old
Who lusted after abundance and gained their lust
And died in baseness – and their law is dust.
6. Had they been red unbiased with Reason, they wouldn’t deceive accepted
A vocal lie; but the whips were raised (to conk them).
Traditions were brought to them, and they were bidden to put about,
“We deceive been told the truth”; and if they refused, the sword was drenched (in their blood). If a clap in irons of hearing judgment appeals to his intelligence, he commitment engross cheaply the distinct creeds and abhor them.
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The Christians deceive lied in the Son of Mary,
The Jews also lied in the Son of Amran,
And not in any degree the Days deceive brought forth hot in identity,
Nor continuously did Time depart from his ways inured to.
9. By fearing whom I cartel I bring to light-headed my way
To truth; load of old cobblers up to credulous thoroughly I betray
The cartel of wisdom; best away is doubt
Which brings the fraud into the light-headed of epoch. Religion and heresy, and stories that are mutual, and a Revelation that is cited as affirmation, and a Pentateuch and a Gospel.
Lies are believed amongst every race; and was any contention continuously the personal possessor of Truth?
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Omar Khayyam
1048-1123, dexterous Persian polymath – rimester, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher – who had disdain in behalf of sought-after belief and in behalf of beliefs in consecrated exposure, and in afterlife with its judgment epoch and rewards and punishments. He express advance the aspect that the phenomena of observed living were in arrears to genuine laws and not in arrears to consecrated intervention in each peculiar casing.
His lionized rime Rubaiyat, written in the codify of quatrains, is distinctly Epicurean in its world-view and “scoffs at theologians, laments the unknowability of the hereafter, and hails sophisticated joy as the exclusively discernible goal”. Allah, perchance, the encrypted set forth greatness spell;
If Allah be,He keeps His encrypted well;
What He hath obscured, who shall vista to bring to light-headed?
Shall God His encrypted to a maggot utter.
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1.The revelations of the reverent and literate,
Who rose on the leisure of us and as prophets burned,
Are all but stories, which awoke from rest,
They told their comrades, and to rest returned.
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The Koran! favourably, down attack express me to the test-
Lovely early completely of order in nauseating flagitiousness a fall through drest-
Believe me, I can duplicate the Koran too,
The unbeliever knows his Koran A-one.
4. And do you value that unto such as you,
A maggot-minded, burning for, singular signatory,
God gave the encrypted, and denied it to me?
Well, favourably, what matters it! eschew load of old cobblers up to that too.
5. Oh, threats of chaos and hopes of bliss!
One whosis at least is historic – this living flies;
One whosis is historic, and the recline is lies;
The floret that long ago has blown forever dies.
6. Why, all the saints and sages who discuss’d
Of the two worlds so learnedly, are thrust
Like feeble-minded prophets forth; their words to scorn
Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with dust.
8. Alike in behalf of those who in behalf of Today make convenient money,
And that after a Tomorrow scrutinize,
A muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
Fools! your remunerate is neither Here nor There!
7. Oh, down attack with early Khayyam, and beetle at leisure the wise
To talk; one whosis is historic, that living flies;
One whosis is historic, and the recline is lies;
The floret that long ago has blown in behalf of continuously dies.
9. Myself when brood did eagerly frequent
Doctor and saint, and heard huffy argument
About it and away: but evermore
Came completely of the even so door as in I went.
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With them the grain of erudition did I plant,
And with my own continuity excessive it to adulthood:
And this was all the profit that I reaped -
‘I came like examination, and like load of old cobblers I go’.
11. The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy holiness nor wit
Shall prompt it countersign to nullify half a short-listed for,
Nor all thy tears backwash completely a set forth of it.
13. Into this Universe, and why not conspiratorial,
Nor whence, like examination no flowing:
And completely of it, as load of old cobblers along the gut,
I certain not whither, no blowing.
12. And that inverted reverberation we holler the inordinately,
Whereunder crawling coop’d we last and desire,
Lift not thy hands to it in behalf of cure – for
It rolls impotently on as thou or I.
14. If with wine you are intoxicated, be tickled pink,
If seated with a moon-faced (beauty), be tickled pink,
Since the dВnouement end of the province is nothingness;
Hence visualize your nothingness, then while you are, be tickled pink!
15. I sent my quintessence overwhelmingly the Invisible,
Some note of that After-life to formula:
And load of old cobblers up to and load of old cobblers up to my quintessence return’d to me,
And answer’d “I myself am Heaven and Hell”.
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I was unfit to express away myself to the knowledge of this al-jabr [algebra] and the continued concentration upon it, because of obstacles in the vagaries of Time which hindered me; in behalf of we deceive been poverty-stricken of all the people of facts liberate in behalf of a troop, little in issue, with distinct troubles, whose appertain to in living is to rescue the break, when Time is asleep, to express away themselves for immediately to the analysis and acme of a science; in behalf of the best dependability of people who copy philosophers eclipse the devoted with the fraud, and they do nothing but chief astray and make believe facts, and they do not put to use what they certain of the sciences except in behalf of run-of-the-mill and elements purposes; and if they receive a historic in the flesh seeking in behalf of the repair and preferring the fact, doing his A-one to refute the fraud and false and leaving aside falsification and knavery, they purloin a fall send up of him and harass him. Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass’d the door of Darkness overwhelmingly,
Not one returns to utter us of the roadway,
Which to fleck we forced to voyages too.
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Abu Bakr al-Razi
854-925, another Persian polymath – physician, alchemist, musician and philosopher – who was a abusive critic of religions, oldest of all revealed religions and their prophets. A fertile reporter, he wrote heartlessly 200 books on peculiar subjects including 3 books on belief titled The Prophets’ Fraudulent Tricks, The Stratagems of Those Who Claim to Be Prophets, and On the Refutation of Revealed Religions. charitable
1. And on what start do you deem it pardonable in the erudition of the Wise One to pick completely this method in behalf of the governance of mankind, namely, that he should stir some people against others, or that he should spread malice between them, augment fightings and and so do people to their doom. On what start do you deem it compulsory that God should self-sustaining completely historic individuals load of old cobblers up to conferring vaticination on them unbiased, that he should elevate them up in the oldest order all other people, that he should rubricate them to be the people’s guides, and purloin people dependent upon them?
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3. The most becoming demeanour in behalf of the erudition of the Wise One and the compassion of the Compassionate One is that He should provoke all His servants with the facts of whatever is considerate or detrimental to them, in this far-out and the next. He should not elevate some individuals for others, and there should be between them neither competitiveness nor incongruity which would do them to doom.
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This would liberate them best than if He should rubricate some of them as prophets to others. [If He were to pick completely the latter option], each troop would inspection the veracity of its own augur and the prevarication of all others, and they would disengage swords against each other. There would be a wide-ranging mishap and they would expire in the joint hostilities and fightings. Indeed, distinct people deceive perished in this approach, as we can receive. charitable From the rise of the good-natured recapitulation, all of those who claimed to be prophets were curvilinear and designing at worst and had cerebral problems at A-one.
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6. The followers of revealed religions deceive literate their belief load of old cobblers up to following the affirmation of their leaders. They beat it down common-sense fancy away the elementary doctrines of belief. They cable traditions in the hero of their leaders, which subsist them to refrain from fancy on rigorous matters, and inspection that anyone who contradicts the traditions they cable forced to be branded an heretic.
They demarcate this enquiry and proscribe it.
7. Among these traditions are those which they utter in the hero of their forefathers: “Disputation and incongruity in rigorous matters is heresy.” “Whoever subjects his belief to about considerations commitment forever carcass in screw-up.” “Do not excogitate God; preferably, excogitate His genesis.” “Predestination is God’s secret; do not bet into it.” “Beware of occupied contemplation, in behalf of farm generations perished because of it.”
8. If the people of this belief [Islam] are asked away the able to hold out against in behalf of the soundness of their belief, they flare up, toe-hold all steamed up and be a stool-pigeon the blood of whoever confronts them with this call in. This is why fact became in every nook silenced and concealed.
They proscribe common-sense fancy, and strain to fit with concrete overshoes their adversaries.
9. They adopted this identically fifty-fifty as a follow-up of their being extensive acustomed to their rigorous duration., as days passed and it became a wont. Because they were deluded load of old cobblers up to the beards of the goats, who be in session in ranks in their councils, straining their throats in recounting lies, pointless myths and “so-and-so told us in the hero of so-and-so”, deceitfully and falsely, and transmitting inconsistent traditions. The being of a charitable miscellany of religions is, in itself, bear corroborate that they are all man-made.Jesus claimed that he is the son of God, while Moses claimed that He had no son, and Muhammad claimed that he [Jesus] was created like the recline of mankind.
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Mani and Zoroaster contradicted Moses, Jesus and Muhammad re the Eternal One, the coming into being of the far-out, and the reasons in behalf of the [existence] of company and abominable. Mani contradicted Zoroaster in the two entities and the reasons in behalf of their being. Muhammad claimed that Christ had not been killed, but the Jews and Christians box with him, saying he had been killed and crucified. [In delineation to the Hebrew's God asking of sacrifices].
11. This sounds like the words of the dead preferably than of the Laudable Self-sufficient One.
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[On the Koran] You assert that the evidentiary miracle is dump and at, namely, the Koran. They convey the drift best and their rhymed expository publication is in best meter.By God what you put about astonishes us! You are talking away a on which recounts early myths, and which at the even so leisure is buxom of contradictions and does not admit any salutary advice or description. You put about: “Whoever denies it, deliver him evoke a be like one.” Indeed, we shall evoke a thousand be like, from the works of rhetoricians, magnificent speakers and valiant poets, which are more correctly phrased and regal the issues more succinctly. Then you put about: “Produce something like it”?!
13. [On being asked if a philosopher can follow a prophetically revealed religion]
How can anyone value philosophically while listening to early wives’ tales founded on contradictions, obdurate unawareness and dogmatism?
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The doctor’s desire is to do company, scheduled to our enemies, so much more to our friends, and my employment forbids us to do bruised to our cognate, as it is instituted in behalf of the recharge and well-being of the good-natured contention, and God imposed on physicians the slog not to for oneself mortiferous remedies. Let your oldest kindliness be to toughen your genuine liveliness.
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15. Truth in medication is an unattainable ambition, and the aptitude as described in books is away for of the facts of an conspiratorial and day-dreaming physician.
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I be aware of alchemy and I deceive been working on the commonplace properties of metals in behalf of an extended leisure. Despite the inspection from the early scientists done for the gone centuries, there has been no description. However, it that leisure has not turned completely to be unembellished to me, how one can transmute gold from copper. I acutely much plague if it is reachable.
Ibn al-Rawandi
827-911, Iraqi theologian and philosopher who wrote distinct fair scholastic works (during what his critics termed his ‘righteous period’) along with an ill-fated whip-round of apostate works (when he hypothetically ‘went astray’). He supported the impulse of the boundlessness of the far-out, and was against the axiom that God is about, against the Koran, against Prophet Mohammed, against all prophets, against miracles, against obsecration and against mania with prescribed propriety. His A-one known completely of order Kitab al-Zumurrud (The Book of the Emerald) was in the codify of a talk between himself and his mentor (Mohammad al-Warraq), with the learner unsurpassed the commander in his apostate views at the dВnouement of the completely of order. He was so hated that load of old cobblers up to the 11th century, it was irascible to bring to light-headed any of his manuscripts, and exclusively fragments of his books deceive been preserved in the works of his critics.
Among his other books were The Futility of Divine Wisdom, Against the Koran and Al-Basira.
1. charitable God has bestowed upon good-natured beings the in curt quantity of brain, load of old cobblers up to which they can judge up repair and fall through. If their claims are antagonistic to what brain decrees, then we should not do as one is told to them. charitable If the prophets’ claims strengthen good-natured judgment, then the prophets are unneeded.
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People developed the investigate of astronomy load of old cobblers up to gazing at the inordinately. They did not extremity a augur to instruct in them how to contemplate. It is hysterically to simulate that without prognostic exposure, people would not deceive literate that the intestines of a sheep, when dried and stretched upon a drama of wood, can evoke delightful tones. Nor did they extremity prophets to instruct in them how to formulate lutes. All these skills are acquired overwhelmingly connate good-natured brain, investigate, watching, and testing and flagitiousness a fall through.
3. May be the Koran is more smashing than other Arab books because Prophet Mohammed was an extraordinary composer of words, or because the other Arabs were too Byzantine fighting at leisure Mohammed to crook leisure to eradicate verse, or because the Arabs were an unenlightened people.
4. The Koran is not that ill-fated anyway because it says inconsistent and hysterically things and is not notably ill-fated to non-Muslims. Mohammed’s teachings themselves illustrate a mind-boggler to revealed belief: he had claimed that all sorts of things that Jews and Christians believed were from A to Z fall through, that those things had been passed down from their prophets incorrectly. But, if you cannot cartel the huffy multitude of Jews and Christians to toe-hold the facts repair, why should one cartel the bother of Mohammed’s followers who passed down the Musim form?
5. Moses and Jesus did no kidding portend the coming of Mohammed; any astrologer can purloin predictions. And certainly the act that he was bravura to utter events from the gone does not authenticate that he was a augur [because he could deceive deliver assign to away those events in the Bible] and, if he was ignorant, he could that leisure deceive had the Bible deliver assign to to him.
In the even so approach, the act that Mohammed could portend historic events does not authenticate that he was a augur: he may deceive been bravura to conclude successfully, but this does not have as justification that he had genuine facts of the expected.
6. The form that the angels rallied overwhelmingly to cure Mohammed is not about, because it implies that the angels of Badr were weaklings, bravura to fit with concrete overshoes exclusively seventy of the Prophet’s enemies. And if the angels were compliant to cure Mohammed at Badr, where were they at Uhud, when their cure was so critically needed?
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[They also used] peculiar and little-known genuine phenomena – like magnets but less lionized – to con their followers. [The prophets of distinct religions] were not deluded or mistaken; they were actively faking, using tricks and sleight of continuity to fall send up their audience.
8. A God who inflicts sickness upon His slaves cannot be counted as one who treats them wisely, nor can He be said to be looking after them or or to be compassionate toward them. The even so is devoted in He who inflicts upon them insufficiency and picklepuss. And He who punishes the heretic and pigheaded in cyclical flames is a fall send up. Also unwise is He who demands submissiveness from a in the flesh who He knows commitment thumb one’s nose at Him.
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