Mamdouh Bitar, Othman Li
Praying on the side of the road has nothing to do with religion and its texts. Even if religion permits orprohibits it, the position on this degenerate practice remains unchanged. It is incompatible with human civilization and, indeed, strongly in line with barbarism. It is an assault on public affairs and a clear violation of all man-made laws. The phenomenon is new and strange, whether individual or collective, and its practice in the manner in which it was carried out is nothing but an unnecessary provocation. It is a new invention of hypocrisy and ostentation, a display of extremist tendencies. It is a hybrid outbidding of worship in temples, and an attempt to inform the people of the countries to which street worshippers have taken refuge that they have succeeded in taking over the streets and transforming them into mosques or houses of worship. Even if some consider the practice of religious rituals on the side of the road a sign of piety and faith, this faith, as practiced by these people, is reprehensible and prohibited in all societies around the world. It makes no difference whether some consider these practices a conspiracy against religion or a conspiracy by religion. Regardless, it is an ugly practice, no less vicious than murder or suicide. It is a folklore of suicide and harm to others and to oneself, and a disgrace to the religion in question. Blocking a road is one of the practices of highway robbers; it is what is called, in religious parlance, banditry. Imagine worshippers praying five times a day in the streets and then being interrupted. What would happen? More importantly, imagine the thoughts of this worshipper while praying in front of a bus, thus exposing him to death by being run over. What does this worshipper feel in his heart towards others? Does he love or hate them? Does he forgive or take revenge? Does he respect others or take revenge on others? Why would this worshipper take revenge on a city or community that embraced and helped him? Did his prayer gain Allah’s approval and blessings? What about others’ reactions to a believer praying on the side of the road, obstructing the flow of traffic? Would deporting him or demanding his deportation to the country from which he came be considered an injustice? These are many questions that need many answers. We will try to explain some aspects of this topic. Regarding prayer in general, it can be said that it is specific to the form of “toubza,” which is nothing but hallucinations that make the worshipper think that through it he is communicating with the greater imaginary hallucinatory God. Therefore, we have never seen any tangible benefit from it. In other words, by virtue of its nihilistic outcome, it is a farce, especially in camel-based societies. Moreover, the toubza prayer is not specific to the doctrine that currently imposes it, but rather is derived from other superstitions whose source the worshipper does not even know the name of. What was mentioned is not the main problem, the problem lies in the fact that prayer is originally an “obligation”, i.e. oppression, and the greater problem appears in the consequences of abandoning prayer, and abandoning prayer is considered by the religion of believers a crime against religion according to the concept of apostasy, so the one who abandons prayer is killed. We have noticed, for example, through Muhammad Saleh’s broadcasts and discussions with believers, a terrifying phenomenon. In short, Muhammad Saleh asked hundreds of fathers what this father would do with his daughter or son who abandons prayer, who may be ten years old. Here, 100% of believers answered, “The one who abandons prayer, whether it is a son or daughter, is killed, even if he or she is a child. Even the wife is killed, the father is killed, the mother is killed, the neighbor is killed, every one who abandons prayer is killed. Imagine the seas of blood in this case and imagine that barbarism, then imagine a father slaughtering his son or daughter for abandoning prayer. Here, these fathers deny even the jealousy of fatherhood and the false advice of righteousness towards parents. How can we understand this righteousness when this superstitious righteousness allows the father to kill his son or allows… Is it right for a son to slaughter his father for neglecting prayer? In reality, we don’t see seas of blood, nor do we see the killing of those who neglect prayer for many reasons, including the formality of religiosity, the hypocrisy of boasting, and adherence to the rules and tenets of religion without applying these tenets. The prayer of these people is hypocritical and deceitful. Those who converse with God during prayer and believe in complete obedience to God’s advice and guidance do not kill, lie, or steal, etc. God, the embodiment of virtue, does not command all of the above, because what is mentioned is contrary to virtue. These worshippers are generally distinguished from others by their bad morals, bad behavior, and deceit. God, in His human conception, cannot be as barbaric as these believers have portrayed him to be. Perhaps there are multiple gods, and it seems that the god of these people is the ultimate in barbarism, vulgarity, criminality, and immorality. These are the qualities we must worship, prostrate to, glorify, and abide by his directions, commandments, and order ,God’s brutality is not limited to the obligation and punishments for disobeying Him, as we mentioned regarding the one who abandons prayer. Whoever escapes the barbaric killer and his ISIS on earth may not escape the punishments in heaven, that is, in hell. Heavenly punishments are difficult to imagine, because we have not lived through anything like them or similar to them on earth, and we do not live on earth with predatory animals like the animals of heaven. The source of our knowledge about heavenly hell was the religious texts, which clarify and explain this knowledge of the ways in which God deals brutally with those humans who have gone to hell. What we are surprised by is the disproportion of the severe punishment to the trivial earthly crime, which is abandoning prayer. The form and size of the punishment as described in the texts is terrifying, vengeful, brutal, and unbecoming of the gods. It even negates the gods’ praiseworthy qualities, such as compassion, mercy, wisdom, understanding, forgiveness, love, respect for life, etc. We conclude from what has been mentioned that prayer is generally devoid of any positive value, and that the practice of prayer is not done out of an internal moral motive, nor is it related to the love of God and His glorification with a sublime type of conviction or belief, but rather out of fear of heavenly mob terrorism. Sometimes the heavenly beast excludes believers from punishment, the application of which is limited to everyone who does not pronounce the two testimonies of faith. At other times we feel that the presence of humans in Hell is almost limited to women. Then at other times all the sins of the believer are erased as soon as the sinner fasts a few days. We generally feel that this Heavenly without mind and without morals as well.