Is THEM Guilty of Shirk? - Dr. Wesley Muhammad

Thus, the quintessential Black Arabs, the Banu Hashim (see Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya) collectively
rejected A‘isha‘s unsupported tafsir and collectively affirmed Ru‘ya. The lone exception thus proves the
rule.
I have not yet read Bro Mubaashir‘s Part 2. I have skimmed it, and to my amazement found this quote:
‖In Part 1 of my reply to Dr. Wesley, I demonstrate using data from his dissertation that it is
evident that Muslims disputed about this topic (i.e. anthropomorphism) long before the so-called
non-Arab takeover and domination of Muslim thinking.‖
I have here demonstrated that Bro Mubaashir did no such thing. He only demonstrated that he didn‘t
read enough of my dissertation to understand what it was saying.
3. ANTHROPOMORPHISM PRE-SCIENTIFIC?
Bro Mubaashir confesses, then opines:
―Admittedly, I am not a historian and I am no expert on the influence of Greek philosophy on
Imam Al-Ghazzali. However, what I do know is that world history shows a progression of
human belief and knowledge from its early superstitious and pagan understanding of the planet
and world we live in to a more rational, scientific, and educated understanding of ourselves and
our world. Early man worshipped things in creation as Gods; the wind, fire, rain, etc. We
believed in powerful spirits, demons, ghosts lurking in the night. We worshipped the sun, the
moon, stars, angelic beings, statues; all kinds of things, including powerful men and women, who
were our witch doctors, kings, pharaohs, popes and the wizards of Oz. As man became more
knowledgeable of himself and his world, he began discarding those beliefs and began reducing
the number of supernatural, "divine" beings in his world. Eventually, a good number of humans
realized that even the powerful and great men and women who claimed to be G-d or claimed
that G-d ordained them with the right to rule were only mortal men like the rest of us. This is
history 101.‖
With due respect to my Beloved Brother, this is History 101 from an admitted non-historian and it thus
fails to meet the standards of critical historical writing. This idea that anthropomorphism is ‗pre-scientific‘
and human intellectual advancement à la the Greek philosophers disabused us of such ‗superstition‘ is not
History 101 but, in 2011, Wishful-Thinking 101 and is contradicted by the historical data.
Currently in the possession of the New York Academy of Medicine is the important Edwin Smith Papyrus
(ESP), which is an ancient Egyptian medical papyrus written during the 18 th dynasty (ca 1500 BCE).
However, it was shown to be a late copy of an original produced in the Old Kingdom (4400-4200 BCE).
It thus reflects medical knowledge as it existed in North Africa (Egypt) 6,000 years ago. And this
knowledge clearly was impressive, to say the least. ESP is an extensive anatomical dictionary of the skull,
head and throat. Its knowledge of nueroanatomy was detailed and accurate, without the benefit of EEGs,
CAT scans, or magnetic resonance imaging. This medical papyrus speaks of 48 cases of bone surgery and
of external pathologies. It mentions ‗brain‘, a term unknown in all of the East or West at that period. The
author of the papyrus already knew the body‘s dependence on the brain. Produced by Africans in the Nile
Valley probably around 6,000 years ago (following the Long Chronology), ESP‘s scientific consciousness
has won the non-patronizing admiration of modern scientists.
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