Arash (former Muslim)

The following is a testimony of a Muslim leaving Islam The testimony was originally posted at the ApostatesOfIslam.com website and has been reproduced here with permission

Arash Personal information Country of origin    Iran Gender    M Age    26 Faith Information Current faith Humanist Born or convert to Islam? Born into Islam Parents' faith Islam

My Testimony of Leaving Islam

I was raised as a Muslim and practiced Islam of my own free will until about the age of 23. At that point I started to read the Quran. I was always told that Quran is the direct and unchanged word of a loving, caring, passionate god, and the Quran's message is eternal, and for all people and all races.

Reading the Quran carefully brought doubt to my mind, raising questions like:

1. Why is Allah so obsessed about Muhammad's sex life? (sura al tahrim aya 1)
2. Why would Allah tell another man to divorce his wife so Mohammad can marry her? (sura 33, aya 37)
3. Why would Allah put a seal on a person's heart, make him blind and deaf to the 'truth' and then punish him in hell? (sura 2 aya 6 and 7)
4. Why should a woman be beaten? (sura 4 aya 34)
5. If we are meant to fast between sun rise and sun set as Quran says, what happens if we live on the north pole where in the summer the sun does not set for 6 months? Is Islam not for the north pole?
6. Why should Mohammad's widows not get remarried? I was told the only reason Mohammad married so many women was because at the time that was the only way to support a widow. In that case, what about Mohammad's widows?

After this a very important question came to me: Is there anything that can be described as GOOD that can be credited directly to Islam? To this day, I can not find one good thing that has come from Islam, nor can I find a Muslim who can name one good thing that comes from Islam.

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