Intro

Hello to you, reader. You didn't come here just like that. It means you are interested in my website and the way I think and what I believe. This article is focused on religion, where we have too many disagreements. Before we move on, let me tell you this: you might not like some of what I am going to say because it is a delicate topic. On top of that, the goal of this website is to become the ultimate hub, the online brain of Eraj Alisherov, where I share my unpopular opinions, whether people care about them or not. But if you are here, congratulations. Let's move forward.

The Sinner

A terrific event, in the evening, when I was in Uzbekistan. Champagne, all those fancy foreigners, bankers, businessmen, drinking, chatting, discussing the future. I knew one of the guys there, and he saw me. He waved at me, and I approached him. We were both holding a glass of champagne, and we were both Muslims. So we looked at each other, and I jokingly said, "What kind of believer are you, pal?" He said, "I am the kind of believer who believes in the equal right of sin and good deeds to bring me closer to God and, ultimately, to Paradise." So he basically pointed out that even sin has the same potential as a good deed to bring you closer to God. In other words, everything that we do, in one way or another, is already THE WAY.

Apocalypse

I am inside a car with a colleague, getting back from work. We are discussing different things and ultimately get to religion. Of course, I am Muslim. I looked at the beauty beyond the car, the horizon, the Sun, the sky, the soil, the trees, and I said, "Adam and Eve were granted the whole planet, which was the ultimate Paradise for them, but they still decided to approach that tree." In reply, I received from my colleague, "Honestly, I don't believe in that."

Then I just sighed and said, "To truly understand who is right and who is wrong when it comes to that cosmic power called God and the realm called the afterlife and/or spiritual life, all humans need to die at once, or simply put, we shall perish as a human race." I continued, "This will guarantee that all our souls, or whatever we have inside us, are free. Only then will we somehow connect together and get somewhere. Then we'll see who was wrong and who was right, and who ultimately won or lost. Until then, all our arguments and disagreements are in vain."

And I am right. If you analyze real-world examples from every religion around the world, you might find at least one case in each religion where a spirit from the afterlife somehow connected with the living, and both the spirit and the living belonged to the same religion, claiming that the afterlife and that specific religion were true. But why do all religions have that? How can we identify which one is genuine? It all goes back to what I said: to truly find out the truth, we must perish first. If the afterlife exists, we'll reconnect somehow.