The Learner

Muhammad Muhsin Ibrahim muhsin2008@gmail.com @muhsin234 Islam and its about 2 billion adherents suffer an acute ad hominem criticism in various places in the world today. The condemnations are wide and wild. While the notorious one centres on terrorism carried out by some Muslims, dubbed extremists, a salient other one is on the many prohibitions embedded in the religion. A non-Muslim friend of mine once told me, “I can’t practice Islam. There are more ‘Noes’ than there are ‘Yeses’ in it”. I didn’t quickly affirm or snub her allegation. I instead felt the need to study the whole thing thoroughly, and so I did. There are, of course, many “noes”, which are, nonetheless, for the wellness of humankind. For instance, Islam bans all intoxicants (cigarettes and alcohol deserve particular mention), pork meat, interest and usury, any sexual immodesty (adultery, fornication, incest, pornography, etc.), gay marriage, among others. Religion is religion. It must not always seem reaso...

Muhammad Muhsin Ibrahim @muhsin234 It’s a familiar saying that common sense is not so common. Many people regard this saying as silly, or worse. However, evidently enough, many events around the world are corroborating it today. Common sense is indeed getting scarcer by the tick of a clock. Humans’ faculty is becoming faulty and faultier. Bad is considered good, and good is considered harmful. Right as wrong, wrong as right. Demarcation line between almost anything hitherto thought as positive and/or negative is being thinned, blurred and shall soon vanish. A weird law was given a nod in South Korea in the past week.  Adultery is now legalised , and soon thereafter,  condom makers’ shares surge.   Fornication has since been permissible in many countries, though, provided the persons involved have reached puberty, and there’s no compulsion. Wonder; this new, lewd law was virtually nothing sensational, even on social media, as other, perhaps more pressing, news...