Cogito, Ergo Sum

Ed Decker is a Christian apologist. According to Dick Baer, he wants to sensationalize and shock people. Previously he has attracted people by criticising Mormonism. Now he is criticising, rather vilifying Islam through his biased writings. Recently he has published a book whose very name is blasphemous. Through this blog I want to convey to Decker and others like him, that before criticising Islam, they must first critically analyze Christianity. Jesus Christ (Peace be upon him) never claimed that he is the founder of a new religion: Christianity. Even he never uttered the word Christianity in his whole lifetime. It was Paul, a self-claimed apostle of Christ (Peace be upon him) who was the founder of Christianity. ( Reference ). Gospels indicate that Christ (Peace be upon him) always kept himself under the Divine Laws of Moses (Peace be upon him). He announced that he had not come even to change an iota of the Law revealed to Moses (Peace be upon him). (Mathew 24:35) Though Christ ...

Mela Chiraghan is one of the most popular festival of Lahore. It is actualy " Urs " of a famous mystic Shah Hussain, who is also known as Madhu Lal Hussian. To some, he was a Sufi mystic, and to others he was a Mustaswif (one who pretends like a Sufi for the lust of worldly gains). Here is an Urdu translation of an essay of Yoginder Sikand " Madho Lal Hussain of Lahore: Beyond Hindu and Muslim ". One can himself judge whether he was a sufi or a mutasawif after reading it. شاہ حسین، شہادت پائیں جو مرن متراں دے اگے برصغیر کی تصوف کی تاریخ بہت بھر پور اور طویل ہے۔ برصغیر کے دوسرے علاقوں کی نسبت غالبا ً پنجاب میں اس کی جڑیں سب سےزیادہ گہری ہیں، جنہوں نے یہاں تصوف کے عظیم علم بردار پیدا کیے، اور جنہوں نے عوام کے ذہنوں میں تصوف کا گہرا تاثر قائم کیا۔ آج تک اس علاقے کے ان گنت صوفیاکی اس صوبے اور دیگر علاقوں کے کروڑوں مسلمان، سکھ، دلت اور ہندوبے حد عزت کرتے ہیں ۔ شاہ حسین بھی ایسے ہی صوفی بزرگ ہیں جنہیں ان کی وفات کے چار سو سال بعد بھی کروڑوں پنجابی یاد رکھتے ہیں۔ وہ لاہ...