Was Hawking an Atheist?
Debunking Hawkin's "Atheism"
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The reason why I think Hawking was not an atheist is because the entity he rejected was not God. Yes, you heard it right. The "God" he rejected is not the God we worship. It is just like assuming that UFOs are angels (I can provide you the name of the Urdu pseudo-scientists who wrote that down in his book) and then rejecting the existence of angels. Similarly, a man thinks that his wife cheated on him and then he forgives her. His forgiveness is meaningless because his wife has remained faithful. You cannot accept/reject something you are mistaken about. Hawking rejected the God he thought we believed - and by "we" I mean the theist community of the world, specially the Muslims - so, if we prove that the God Hawking hated is not the God we worship then, by default, Hawking becomes not an atheist. Still find it all confusing? Don't sweat. Let me explain what kind of "God" Hawking believed in and later rejected.

If you hate the character of Zeus then you might find it interesting how he looked like. He was a bald old man with a long beard. His hair and clothes were white in color and he lived upon a cloud kingdom. Sounds familiar? It is the same portrait of the modern Christian god or the Father. Just watch Family Guy. So the idea of God being and acting like a human being is detestable. A God who has all the bad habits of a mortal is worthy of rejection. This is the God Hawking rejected. That is exactly what the biblical and Islamic prophets have been doing since the evolution of mankind. Bible and Qur'an are filled with stories of prophets forbidding people from worshiping such mortal deities. The God we deserve is immortal. The God we deserve is the one Hawking was never introduced with.
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Family Guy depiction of the Zeus-inspired Christian God |
Just read the many stories regarding God in Bible, Sahih al-Bukhari and non-Vedic Hindu scriptures. We have gods who are jealous, torture innocent people, feel sorry for their actions, punish people for the sins of their forefathers, have physical appearances, make people worship them by stripping, throw these feet in the hellfire, fly away with someone's fiance, are cursed by someone's mother, engage in contests to prove who is better and cannot tell good from evil when have their third eye working. These are the gods Hawking refused to worship and these are the gods all sane people should refuse to acknowledge as their masters. The God we deserve does not exist physically. He never appears as a human being on earth. He cannot be seen. He does not need eyes or see, ears to hear, hands of build, feet to walk or heart of love. He exists everywhere at the same time. The best discussion on God can be found in the works of Sharif al-Radi who compiled 400+ sermons and letters of Ali ibn Abu Talib (599?-661 AD) in an encyclopedia called Nahj al-Balaghah. The Four Vedas also offer a very profound view of God. The actual Hindu idea of God is very much similar to Islam i.e. Hindu rishis used to preach the existence of a spirit that has always existed and will keep always existing. If Hawking had embraced Hinduism, he would have changed his mind regarding "atheism".
هُوَ الْقَادِرُ الَّذِي إِذَا ارْتَمَتِ الاَوْهَامُ لِتُدْرِكَ مُنْقَطَعَ قُدْرَتِهِ، وَحَاوَلَ الْفِكْرُ الْمُبَرَّأُ مِنْ خَطَرَاتِ الْوَسَاوِسِ أَنْ يَقَعَ عَلَيْهِ فِي عَمِيقَاتِ غُيُوبِ مَلَكُوتِهِ، وَتَوَلَّهَتِ الْقُلُوبُ إِلَيْهِ لِتَجْرِيَ فِي كَيْفِيَّةِ صِفَاتِهِ، وَغَمَضَتْ مَدَاخِلُ الْعُقُولِ في حَيْثُ لاَ تَبْلُغُهُ الصِّفَاتُ لِتنالَ عِلْمَ ذَاتِهِ، رَدَعَهَا وَهِيَ تَجُوبُ مَهَاوِيَ سُدَفِ الْغُيُوبِ، مُتَخَلِّصَةً إِلَيْهِ ـ سُبْحَانَهُ ـ فَرَجَعَتْ إِذْ جُبِهَتْ، مُعتَرِفَةً بِأَنَّهُ لاَ يُنَالُ بِجَوْرِ الاعْتِسَافِ كُنْهُ مَعْرِفَتِهِ، وَلاَ تَخْطُرُ بِبَالِ أُولِي الرَّوِيَّاتِ خَاطِرَةٌ مِنْ تَقْدِيرِ جَلاَلِ عِزَّتِهِ.
He is Powerful, such that when imagination shoots its arrows to comprehend the extremity of His power, and mind, making itself free of the dangers of evil thoughts, tries to find Him in the depth of His realm, and hearts long to grasp realities of His attributes and openings of intelligence penetrate beyond description in order to secure knowledge about His Being, crossing the dark pitfalls of the unknown and concentrating towards Him He would turn them back. They would return defeated admitting that the reality of His knowledge cannot be comprehended by such random efforts, nor can an iota of the sublimity of His Honor enter the understanding of thinkers.
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The dude who wrote this blog without any doubt is a "Muslim"....
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm a Muslim.
DeleteDoes this means Hawking was a Muslim?
ReplyDeleteNo, he was not a Muslim.
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