This is why no matter how much educated we become or no matter how many Phds we acquire so long as we remain confused about living properly in this world none of our inventions can help us live sensibly no matter how long we keep going along this path we have invented and imposed upon each other. For living properly in this world only and only God can help us do that but only if we let God do so by learning his message properly. So long as we will keep God out of our equation of life we will keep on making our lives hell and that is the context in which God talks in the quran regarding hell and paradise ie if you will live in this world the way God says then your life will become a paradise as a proper human community in kingdom of God or if you will live any way you like then wait till you end up making your lives hell by quarrelling with one another. So what God is telling us is very clear that you live for ensuring well being of one another as a proper human community then soon you will have a great life in this world by your own hard works but if you will work against well being of each other then gradually your world will deteriorate and eventually become a hellhole for yourselves. It is not God who punishes people but people themselves think and do all sorts of terrible things to each other for their petty personal gains at each other's expense and then complains and blame God for all that they themselves do to each other. This is why understanding the very first surah of the quran properly is very important and so are the very last surahs. God is praiseworthy because he has given people a way of life which could help them live a great life in this world as well as to have a great life in hereafter as a reward for it. This is why mankind must seek refuge in the way of life revealed by God for them and not follow way of life the shaitaan wants us to follow. I will talk about shaitaan and jinns and angels etc at some other time as to what these words mean in the proper context of the quran. The quran was not revealed so that foolish people make fun of it and burn it but so that mankind learn sense from it and do what is told and have a great life experience in this world and so that then they could be rewarded for their such hard works in hereafter as well.
This is why before people read the quran they need to prepare themselves for its proper understanding. One should be able to see from this explanation how silly arabs look when they fail to understand the quran. It is because the quran has its own language that is totally different from what arabs know. It is a higher level of use of human language by God which is purpose based and this is why none can bring a book like the quran. Till people enable themselves to think at a higher level the quran requires, they cannot understand the quran even if they are arabs. The quran teaches people that they are all workers as far as God is concern and if they will work for fulfilling the purpose God has created them for then their lives will become great but not otherwise no matter how hard they work and no matter how long they go down that way. As I have explained already, living by religion can lead humanity nowhere. Why not? Because religion has nothing at all to do with real world realities instead it is all about empty words and irrelevant ritualistic practices that have no benefits for God or mankind. People can sit and pray to God all they like but nothing can change because God has created this world on basis of cause and effect chain. This is why if one wants a child one has to go through a process whereby one can get a child. No matter how much one cries to God one will not get a child otherwise, because this is not the way God has setup this universe and things in it to work. Likewise no hungry can get food unless one goes through the related process for getting food. God has set up systems and structure as well as he has dictated procedures and practices so none can get anything unless one understands the way laws of nature operate or control or govern the operation of the natural world and things in it.
If no version of religion can give us anything, can any version of secularism and to what extent or degree? Yes, secularism can give us some things to some degree but not to the degree deen of islam can. Secularism can only give us things on basis of personal gains at each other's expense at the most and not on any other basis. It is because through idea of individualism people only and only work for themselves and not for each other or for ensuring well being of each other. In such a society only and only those people succeed who have what it takes to succeed and not those who are relatively less advantaged. This is why the more advantaged people take undue advantages of those who are less advantaged than themselves in some respects which creates a serious divide between those who have and those who have not ie rich and poor. This being the case as numbers of those who are less advantaged increases there comes about a terrible bloody revolution. This is why to avoid this situation the number of poor and the level of poverty is controlled fully by those who have or are powerful and wealthy through various tricks and mechanisms they employ or use to make fool of others. This is what forces so called successful individuals to contribute to their societies to remain in positions of power and have wealth at their disposal. Therefore even if they contribute anything to their societies it is only because if they will not then people who have hard life will get upset and revolt or rise up against them and their set up system and topple it. So rich and powerful people have organised and regulated their societies to keep things under their control as much as they can but natural world is under control of set up systems and laws of God which keeps upsetting their artificially created balance or equilibrium always and forces change upon people be they powerful and rich or powerless and poor. This is why so far no human being has managed to control humanity fully and none ever will.
In other words God has set up this world in such a way that mankind can never take full control of it and take it totally in the wrong direction rather whatever people think and do will always lead the world in the right direction be it bit by bit or in very, very small steps. However God wants people to learn sense and move in the right direction quickly. It is a case of two babies who are put in two different environments. One is never sent to school and the other who is sent to school. One who is sent to school will learn things very fast due to being taught things compared to the one who has never been to school. Likewise people who will learn the quran properly will succeed and those who will not will move very, very slowly on this journey of learning or discovery. The while humanity by passes the quran this situation will prevail or continue till people turn to the quran for their guidance by learning the required or needed sense. This is why the quran is a proper teacher for mankind but this teacher has its own way of interacting with people. The quran is a teacher because it points out things for people to learn about them or that it acts as a stimulus for them to inspire or urge or encourage or motivate them. If we look at the process of teaching and learning as to how we are taught we will see it is the very same way. What a teacher does is, points out things for us to consider and then we ourselves try and figure them out in our own minds in order to try and understand them or figure them out all by ourselves. The very same applies in case of the quran ie it too brings different things to our attention for figuring them out the best we can. So thinking that the quran is an old useless book is not the right way of looking at the quran because it is a very useful book for humanity once it is understood properly in its own proper context by mankind. The basic point the quran makes is, don't live for yourself or for each other but instead live for sake of fulfilling the purpose for which God has created you. This explanation clearly shows limitations of religion and secularism in comparison to way of life advised by God in the quran for humanity for living in this world properly. This is why no human can bring about a way of life like the one the quran suggests let alone any better way of life than the quran. This is why no human being can write a book like the quran even today.
This explanation clearly shows religion is invented and used by rulers and money lenders as scapegoat with help of their stooges called mullaans because where the rulers and money lenders fail to provide masses with what they need or want they make or can excuses to them by saying things are in the hands of God so go and pray to God so that God could put things right for you etc etc. Because masses do not realise things the way they should, they turn to religious leaders for solutions of their problem by God instead of turning against their rulers and money lenders for misleading them or leading them into this terrible situation. This is why they need to turn to the book of God which shows them how to get out of this ruler, money lender and mullah invented confusion called religion. This leaves them totally vulnerable and open to abuses and manipulations by both leaders ie religious as well as secular due to confusion or trap they have create for masses. This is how the quran clearly exposes all kinds of governing systems people have come up with and have adopted so far, be it imperialism or dictatorship or authoritarianism or capitalism or communism or socialism etc etc. None of these can give people what the quranic governing system can give them. It is because all of these ideologies people live by are based upon personal gains for a few at the expense of all others therefore at the expense of proper human community. This is why one should be able to see why one has to study the quran widely and in depth to get the hang of it. This clearly shows why islam is not and cannot be a religion or secularism etc etc. The so called religion islam has been invented by foolish mullahs on behalf of foolish rulers and money lenders to confuse people in the very name of one true God so that the real way of life called deen of islam could be kept hidden from the eyes of the uneducated masses so that that way masses could be used abusively by rulers, money lenders and mullaans without any reaction or bloody revolution by the abused masses. This explanation should leave no doubt in minds of people as to what actual deen of islam really is. It has nothing at all to do with islam of rulers, money lenders, mullaans, their touts and supporters.
This explanation also explains very clearly that deen of islam is all about well being of humanity from the very beginning to the very end provided people understand it properly and adopt it faithfully. This is why deen of islam is from God for ensuring well being of humanity therefore it is about human society, its politics, its culture and its economics and it has nothing at all to do with prayers to God. It has its own governing systems, structures, procedures and practices. Deen of islam is all about people themselves organising and regulating themselves upon its basis for managing God given land and resources or means of production and distribution as a family for serving God and that is what the quran calls IBAADAH or serving one true God and this has nothing at all to do with pooja of God by people and their singing songs to God and doing nothing except rubbing their noses on the ground and waving their bottoms in the air and feeling good that they have done their part. Muslim cannot take over a people by sword unless forced to do so by nonmuslims because deen of islam is all about supporting each other for ensuring well being of each other and who in the right mind can oppose this idea that one needs to take up arms? It is always abusers and manipulators of humanity who benefit from abusing others who oppose deen of islam and that is why they impose fights and wars upon true muslims and that is the true position of actual deen of islam and true muslims if there are any. Muslims cannot need or want anything for themselves or others but only and only seek pleasure of their creator by doing works which he told them to ensure well being of whole of humanity with full help and support of each other. If one learns sense of making proper sense of things and then reads the quran, one will soon find out the quran is not a book from any human being but a book that is from out side of this world. However if people will not learn sense to make proper sense of the message of the quran then they will never know what the real message of God in the quran is.
However the more the people will ignore or avoid or neglect or abandon or desert the quran the more and more painful and agonising suffering will become norm for humanity by hands of each other over a longer period of time as a consequence. Such excuse is not valid for people that since people who claim to be muslims don't understand and use the quran properly so it has nothing to do with nonmuslims. It is because God if there is one is God of all and everything and it is he who has sent his message for all so those who will learn and follow it properly will have a great life in here as well as in hereafter whereas those who will not will end up and remain in an agonising or a terribly painful existence always by hands of each other no matter what. These are not threats by God but advance or fore warnings from God for sensible people to not to blindly follow each other into the hell hole which is dug by people themselves for themselves by not following advice of God at all.
Deen of islam is a true democratic system because it is a party-less system. What does that mean? It means power rests with rule of law of God as understood by masses who can then come together and appoint fully capable people into offices to serve God by making life of proper human community a living paradise as all agree or consent to in order to fulfil the quranic program and objective as well as needs and wants of all members of proper human community. This system works like a referendum in which all discuss things and vote for each and every individual issue and the issue is decided on basis of proper understanding of the quranic and the real world realities as well as needs and wants of people as individuals by a simple majority or unanimity. In a way it is bottom up system as compared to people taking over each other by force or by tricks or deceptive mechanisms whereby they create a pyramid of power structure to abuse weaker people from among themselves. So when it comes to bringing about a proper human community in the kingdom of God, if people cannot understand the real world realities and the quran properly in the first place, could they ever bring about a proper human community or create a book like the quran all by themselves? The quran by making such points shows, it is book from outside this world ie not written by human beings. It is because human beings do not think the way the quran does. If they could, our human world in no way could be the way it is right before our own eyes. It will have been a paradise instead.
The case being as already explained the next point is, why will God tell people for praying to him when he does not answer their prayers as he ought to according to beliefs or imaginations of people? Moreover why will God set times for prayers of people? It is because even if praying was ok, people will only praise God when they got good things from God and will only seek help of God when they are in real troubles and truly need help of God. Not only that but if God asks people to ask things of God then God ought to fulfil their demands or whatever they ask for otherwise why ask people for praying to waste their time and energies in the first place? This is why it makes no sense to have five daily prayers at fixed times and with fixed wording for prayers because prayer should be depending on situations or circumstances of people themselves as individuals and as groups. Yet another point in this regard is, God has his own purpose and plan for creating us so if he listens to us or fulfils our demands then how can God carry out his own plan for fulfilling his own purpose? Moreover we each have our own conflicting demands because we are always in conflict with each other, so how can God please each and every one of us? Therefore it makes better sense for God to give us all his standard to live by so that we all could mould or bend or model ourselves according to him rather than trying to mould God to fit our demands according to our self created conflicting standards. When it comes to God, the quran and deen of islam; things only seem mysterious for us because we are ignorant about them in various ways. I have already explained why miracles cannot take place in this world the way people at large think what they think ie due to their lack of proper knowledge about things. This is why our laughing at the quran exposes our own ignorance and stupidity at most and by burning the quran we are throwing our own future into the hell of our own making by our own hands.