Excerpts from the Diary of a Pissed Off Bodybuilder

God works in mysterious ways

First of all, I would like to clarify that what I’m about to say has nothing to do with our religion itself, but it’s about what people fabricated and blended into our religion. I know that this is a very delicate subject and I have to watch what I say. I don’t mean to offend anyone’s beliefs by what I say, but just know that this is my personal opinion and nothing in our religion implies that what I’m about to say is “heresy”.
I don’t like to make fun of other people’s beliefs, or doubt them. Because what you believe in will either cure you, or curse you. Personally, I deal with logic and rational thinking. I believe that there are certain anomalies that happen from time to time that remind us that there is a higher power we have to answer to. But to think that god interacts in obvious ways with humans is just plain irrational. What am I getting to? I’ll tell you. But first I have to state this… I believe, without a doubt, that allah is the one true God and that islam is the religion God wants us to follow. Now, I do not need to witness any “abnormality” to believe that. Sadly, a lot of people do. And that’s why they believe. What am I talking about? I’m talking about things like interactions with spirits (lets call them jin for the time being). Things like believing that writing some verses from the quran, dipping them in water and drinking it would cure some disease. Stuff like black magic and what not. This isn’t Harry fucking Potter. Yes, the quran has powers… but they aren’t direct. It’s psychological. Bring someone who doesn’t know how to read the quran correctly and let him read… your teeth will grind… bring someone who knows how to read it and has a nice voice, and you’ll feel like the weight of the world dropped off your shoulders. Many diseases we face are psychological… sometimes you get severe pains in your body for no reason, and doctors can’t diagnose you with a thing… why? It’s psychological. Bring a shaikh that knows how to read the quran, believe that the quran can cure you, believe in the shaikh… BAM! You’re cured. When I say this to people, they tell me that it’s haram to say that. Prove to me it’s haram. They say that the quran has special powers and god said so. Yes, God did say that. Curing a psychological disease is a special power. Explain this to me… how come some people can take their psychologically induced pain away by listening to classical music?
I’ve heard way too many stories about curing real diseases with the quran… I’ve never seen a case… but I’ve heard many. Stories like this:
- doctors gave up on a patient with liver failure from drinking too much… he lost all hope and repented. He went to hajj, drank from zam zam water, and started coughing until he puked some black matter. He went back to the doctors and they told him he was “miraculously” cured.
- A guy got bit by a scorpion… he was about to die and doctors couldn’t help him (I guess they don’t have anti-venom… yeah.. sure) his friend knows combinations of verses from the quran that are said to cure scorpion poisoning… put his hand on the victim… read the verses… and poison started splashing out of the wound.
- Ofcourse, we all know about “jin” and what they can do or whatever… and any relationship gone bad is because someone put a spell on the couple

I have heard of all of this and more… never seen it in my life… I bet I’ll never see it too… and you always have a friend that has an uncle that knows someone whose barber’s son in law’s aunt has seen this stuff. I’m sorry to tell you this… but God doesn’t work in obvious ways… if it were obvious like that, you’d have to be extremely stupid and severely retarded not to be a muslim.
The quran mentioned that its words are a cure for people… However, it didn’t mention that you have to mix onions, garlic, black seed (I don’t know what it’s called in English), honey, rose water and other crap to cure a certain ailment. It did not mention that if you had “work done on you” (that’s what we say to describe someone who has been affected by magic) you have to call upon a spirit, drop shit in water, drink weird shit, and burry the materials that cursed you in the bottom of the sea or burn them. Who came up with this stuff? And how did he come to the conclusion that this would work? What? Trial and error?

Jin… my wife is deathly afraid of jin… I seriously don’t give a rat’s ass. I believe in jin. I believe they exist… but they exist in another realm and they don’t interact with human beings. The stories I hear are childish to say the least. All of them are inconsistent. The stories I hear about possession? Open up a psychology book… open the section on schizophrenia. This is where people start saying “well how do you know schizophrenia isn’t caused by possession?”… because they have drugs for fucking schizophrenia, that’s why. And why the hell would they want to possess us? Our lives suck anyway. I mean… you hear about jin… they can travel at the speed of light… they can morph… they’re made out of fire… HOW COOL IS THAT? WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO LOOK LIKE A FAT ASS AND SCARE PEOPLE?
Moving on to a similar “character”… jathoom… you know… when you wake up at night and you can’t move… you feel like someone’s holding you down… and you get scared shitless? Funny how one of my friends really believed in it until he read the research that explains exactly what it is. Then he stopped believing in stuff like that. I have the research in my email, if you want I could pull it out. It was done by a team of German sleep specialists or something… you know.. the guys that hook you up to the computer and make you sleep… most boring job on earth… but I bet patients have fun… you just sleep… anyway… since arabs said “it’s jathoom… case closed” and didn’t do anything about it… we had to rely on Germans… anyway… basically, from what I understood from the research… it’s your eyes waking up before your body. It rarely happens. You can’t move because your body is still asleep. But you can see and comprehend the shit around you. If you don’t want to believe that, it’s up to you.

Again, when I say this stuff to other people, they say “well how do you explain prophets talking to jin… talking to animals and ants… curing the blind…”… they are prophets. God blessed them with miracles. They were chosen by God. NO ONE ELSE HAS THEIR POWERS!!! Can you cure the blind? No? well then, shut the hell up. I have no doubt that prophets can perform miracles. Normal human beings, however, can’t. So, do not try to explain something that “you saw happen” in our time to something that happened to a prophet.

Izzibda, I will not believe in interactions with jin until you bring one infront of me and let me talk to him… I will not believe in magic (the way they say it is performed today) until you bring an “authentic” sorcerer and let him put an OBVIOUS spell on me, not something like “this spell will give you a certain disease” or “this spell will cause marital problems”… no, that happens to everyone… I want something like “you will puke frogs”… something like that to make me believe.

My wife believes in this stuff… and I will never try to change that… in fact, sometimes it’s a blessing in disguise to believe in it. But me… my mind can’t comprehend it.

I’m sorry if I offended anyone by this… but I’ve been listening to a lot of these stories lately and I just had to say what I think about it.