At a dance party the other night, as my feet were aching to get on the dance floor and show off the few moves I have mastered, I get cornered into a discussion about God and his existence. My dance partner is a confessed atheist. He more than hates the idea of God. But it was only when he called God, Allah, sick, that I wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole. Sick? God? Out of all the human qualities or descriptions we could have humbly bestowed on him, sick sounded like the last word in the dictionary that should be used to describe God. But then, I had to stop and think, how did our relationship with God ended up looking like this? The sick, the ailing, dying God suddenly became so clear in my mind. I realized what was happening. The recycled God has lost so much of his charisma and power throughout the ages and due to bad handling and unknowledgeable attempts to reach him. He's become so diluted and tainted that we’re simply losing him.
Or most correctly, He’s letting go of us. We don’t deserve Him any more.
We have complicated God, taken him out of context, whether the context is the Old Testament, The Book of Geetha, the Bible, or the Quran, to name a few.
Along the ages, God has been recycled, and the job of recycling Him has been extremely poor. He’s been cloned, and the images thrown at us have been monsterly grotesque and ugly - well, except for that of Jesus, who, I believe, was the first serious semi-successful attempt to clone God by giving him two feet and a voice and that heavenly white face with reddish hair that hardly fails to woo humanity into the web of everlasting forgiveness. I bear no grudge against Jesus, or Moses, or Buddha, or Shiva, and absolutely no grudge against Mohammad.
I myself am guilty of attempted God-recycling. We are in an age where any body can do just that and get away with it, I assure you. Soon enough, you might be able to join a God-recycling sorority or fraternity at a discounted price.
This is not meant to be a satire against the Almighty or a critique of those who slight Him, so I do apologize at the occasional levity of my tone. I am simply a person, born and raised Muslim, who is trying to understand what the God I have believed in, and still do, has up his sleeves?
(to be continued...)
Hajer
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