QUESTION NO. 2
Even though the Qur’an is an undistorted message, God allowed its meanings to be considerably camouflaged over the centuries. Even as we speak, we cannot make sense of many subjects (including Salaat, Saum, Hajj, Zakah, Zabiha, Interest, Magic, Slaves, Jinns, Killing disbelievers etc.) unless we resort to “interpretive acrobatics”. Why allow this camouflage to arise, and thereby lead mankind along the road of not only countless hours of debate, research, misunderstandings, and misgivings, but also violence and bloodshed?
ANSWER NO. 2 BY AURANGZAIB:
God did not allow the distortion. God did not allow its meanings to be kept camouflaged over the centuries either. This again is an unsubstantiated allegation. God bestows His guidance, does not force man to follow it in letter and spirit. Man’s freedom of action and thought is never violated by God. The sole purpose is to hold man fully responsible for the way he leads his life and then let him bear the consequences of his conduct.
It is the vested interests of the powerful elite among humans (the ever present Power Mafia) that did its best to disfigure, misconstrue and misrepresent God’s message whenever it was delivered, because it preached equal distribution of wealth, and equality of status irrespective of gender, cast and profession, etc. These values go against the interests of the powerful Capitalist Mafia that keeps exploiting the masses.
At the present and latest stage of research, Salaat, Saum, Hajj, Zakah, Zabiha, Interest, Magic, Slaves, Jinns, Qatl-e-Murtad,,,,, all have been defined in their true light. My own school of thought has introduced the most authentic and satisfactory translations of respective verses of Quran in its theme-wise work. It would soon be available in English too. English translations project has been undertaken.