Some features of the Jewish people (1)

1. Irreligion:

It seems that the most prominent feature of the Israelites is irreligion, or enmity against God, and divine traditions, which of course it can be verified from different aspects; the insult, denunciation, defamation, vilification and denial of God and even killing the Prophets and eventually the defiance of God can be cited as explicit examples of the opposition to religion or irreligion, that it is just implied a few examples of the numerous cases:
“And the Jews say: The hand of Allah is tied up! Their hands shall be shackled up and they shall be cursed for what they say…”
The Insolence, degradation, humiliation and arrogance to the God:
“Then God like as someone, who had slept, he woke up, like an atrocious man grumbling of wine.”
Defamation and denunciation to the God:
“And God regretted that he had created the mankind on the earth, and his heart was grieved.”
“On the seventh day, God was disengaged from all the things which he had created, and on the seventh day, he slept after all his works that he had done. So the God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it; because he slept in that day.”
“And the God of Lord said: Surely the man has been become like one of us, knowing good and evil, now lest he put forth his hand to reach the tree of life, and eat and live forever”.
With a little precision, it could be seen that a separation or segregation between religion and science has been revealed since the creation of man; in the sense that man must either be obedient to God and a faithful servant, but without the knowledge and wisdom; or be wise, without the faith (and then over the time this attitude was distorted and it developed the tenet of false thoughts on opposition between religion and science and even the theories of secularism and the separation of religion and politics.
Another example of hostility to religion is attribution of indecent acts and insult to divine Prophets:
Big Sister told little one: “Our father [Lot] is old, and there is not a man on earth who habitually courts us. Let entice our father to drink win and go to bed with him, to engender a generation by our father…So both daughters of Lot became pregnant from their father”.
And the Lord said to me: “Go again, and love a woman who is beloved of her husband and she is adulteress; as the God loves Israelites”.
Both the priest and the Prophet have gone astray from the alcohol and they have drunk wine.
Or, the Prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests claim to rule through them…
Besides all these inhuman slanders, if it was possible, they also killed the Prophets:
“Certainly we made a covenant with the Children of Israel and we sent to them apostles, whenever there came to them an apostle with what that their souls did not desire, some of them denied it and some slew them”.
Disobedience of God’s commands is another example of irreligion of Israelites that there are in many religious sources.
O my people! Enter the holy land which the Lord has preordained for you and do not return to the back lest you will be losers. They said: O Moses, there are the oppressive people in the land, and we never enter it, till they leave it, if they leave it, we will enter.
God said to Moses: Depart for and go down, because your people that you rescued them from “Egypt” are now corrupt, and they were soon deviated from the religion which I commanded them, but they built a molded calf for themselves and prostrated in front of it and sacrificed to it; also they said: O Israel, these are all your gods which rescued you from the land; therefore the LORD said to Moses: I have beheld this people, but now they are arrogant people.
This shift from idolatry to monotheism happened in the conditions in which Almighty God rescued Israelites from Egypt under Pharaoh’s oppression. Instead of gratitude to God, they turned to idolatry and worshiping the calf.
You have invaded my laws from your fathers’ time, and you have not maintained them. But the Lord of Hosts says: Return to me and I shall return to you, but you say to which we shall return.
Therefore oppression and aggression against the orders of religion have been rooted in Jewish people and it has had a long history.
Another point about the aversion to religion of Jewish people is dissidence of opinion or an opinionated interpretation of divine revelations:
“And certainly we gave the book and the government and the prophecy to the children if Israel, and we gave them the good things, and we made them excel the nations. And we gave them obvious arguments in the prophecy and the law, but they did not differ unless they acceded to knowledge and the dispute was due to their oppression and superiority; but surely your Lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection concerning wherein they differed.”
It should be noted that this irreligion was not unique to Jehovah (God of the Jews) or the apostles of Israelites; but it was also continued upon the laws after Moses (Peace be upon him) and it is also continuing.
“And their saying: Surely we have killed Jesus [Messiah], Isa son of Mariam...”
Or upon the severe reaction and protest against God’s order on the issue of changing the Kiblah from “Jerusalem” (the Kiblah of Jewish people) to “Mecca”, they decided to do a conspiracy and sabotage against the Holy Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) and the Muslims.
“And even if you bring to those who have been given the Book any revelations (signs), they would not follow your Kiblah, neither you follow their Kiblah nor they never follow your Kiblah and even none of them is follower of each other’s Kiblah…”
In this verse, it is also mentioned to the contravention of God’s command, the obstinacy of the Prophet (Peace be upon him) and the dispersion of opinions among the Jews. Allameh Tabatabai in points out in “Al-Mizan”:
“The nation of Israel was the most stubborn people in accepting the Unitarianism and they were opponents to it more than any other nation”.
Perhaps it could be said that the main purpose of all enmities against God is in fact atheism and denegation of the Almighty God. But as evidently they believe in a superhuman power named Jehovah (God); they constantly try either to exalt themselves to dignity of God as they order the law by him or degrade the Almighty as the material and terrestrial creatures.

2. Extreme ethnicity:

Fostering a sense of racism and nationalism is also one of Jewish people’s features. The late Allameh Tabatabai points out following the interpretation of verses 49 to 54 of Surah Al-Baqarah:
Israelites were a community that the ethnicity was intense among them, because they were kindred above all. As a result, if an action would be done by some people, they were satisfied. Simon Lyons, a prominent Jewish scholar, expresses:
“Judaism, unlike Christianity, does not give the good news of salvation for the individual soul at all; all the ideas and concepts of Judaism are tied with the entity of Jewish people”.
Another figure in the history of Zionism stresses:
“Every Jew, inevitably, is strongly united with the entire Jewish people and the Jewish religion, above all, is the patriotism for the Jews”.
So from the Jews’ perspective, an extreme ethnicity and nationalism is regarded as a divine religion. Unlike “Qur'an” which says:
“Surely the most honorable of you with Allah is the one among you most careful (of his/her duty)”.
This extreme ethnic prejudice led to a sensible social cohesion in the Jewish communities - though a bit – and this social cohesion is the main reason for their social survival, even in gentile communities throughout the history. They maintained their close relationship with each other in different cities and points of the world. Wherever they put up their tents, their relationship with the nation of Israel and “the promised land” was still standing. They, in the heart of anonymous lands and uninhabited desert, had their own land where they were comfortable in there and they considered that it is their homeland.

3. The inherent superiority:

Describing own self preeminent than others is a sign of pride and vanity (arrogance) was the reason for rejection of Satan from the kingdom of God.
In addition to characteristics such as irreligion, the insult to God and Prophets, i.e. regarding the God as a servant, the egotism and selfishness were the prominent features of Israelites that it was actually the origin of a series of other political and social behaviors throughout the history of mankind by them. The remarkable thing is that the people who disdain and feel hostility towards all respectable divine religions, wherein their interests require it, they uniquely regard the religious dictums to themselves and they considered themselves separated from others; and it has caused they regard only their religion as genuine and with their own irreligion mood, for disobeying of divine dictums and disrespect to Prophets and the religions after the Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) also have a pretext in their hands.
“And the Jews say: The Christians do not follow anything (good)…”
Or:
“And when it is said to them, Believe in what Allah has revealed, they say: We believe in what has been revealed down to us; and they deny what is besides that, while it is the truth verifying that which they have. Say: Then why did you kill Allah’s Prophets before unless you are believers?”
So it seems that adducing to the verses of “Torah” by the Jews, rather than having the aspect of religious adherence, is an instrumental use of religion to meet their own worldly intentions; otherwise a devout common sense dictates that one should be adherent upon the orders of his Lord; and it does not lead to the source of innovations against religion by distortion of God’s signs. Even scholars of religion with laxity and compendium of information, have studied various religions also believe that the Israelites affirm an undue emphasis on being excellence themselves. Of course, the root of the Jewish illusion of being as the chosen is resulted from the self-interested manipulation of religious texts.
“And because he [Lord] loved your fathers, he had chosen their descendants after them in order to save you from the Egypt by his apostle, with his mighty power.”
“... And they will be my people and I will be their God.”
“And Tell Pharaoh: God says Israel is my son and my firstborn child.”
Even through the history of opposition to God and with all kinds of blasphemous mischiefs, they regard themselves as God’s children and consider that the divine guidance is uniquely for them. “Holy Quran” says:
“And they [Christians and Jews] say: Be Jewish or Christian, until you will be on the right course.”
Although the “Holy Quran” has also emphasized the virtue of Israelites over the world’s people, but immediately it warned that these worldly virtues - if caused to ingratitude and disobedience of God’s commands - will not have any benefits to the people in the Day of Judgment.
“O children of Israel! Call to mind my favor which I bestowed on you and that I made you excel than nations. And be on your guard against day which one soul shall not avail another in the least, neither any intercessions on its behalf shall be accepted, nor any compensation shall be taken from it, nor they shall be helped.”
What is noteworthy is that the superiority of Israelites was just on their own time folks; because basically the guidance of Prophet Moses (peace be upon him) was uniquely to the children of Israel, and he did not have a global mission:
“And we gave Moses the divine Book, and made it guidance to the Children of Israel.”
But Jewish connoisseurs and commentators ignoring the fact were not willing to spread their religion among other nations; because regarding to their faith, the God has excerpted the Jews as the chosen people and he has appointed all human beings as their slaves. For this reason, the Jews call gentile people “Goyim” meant the animals like as the human form.
Some consider that this extreme believe of Jewish people to being as the chosen or separated from others is based on Book of “Talmud”.
We should not forget that collecting and compiling of “Talmud” was an attempt by some Jewish scholars and savants seeking to preserve the unity and identity of the people after destruction of the Temple and, in this regard, from the late of first century AD started to procure a list of books and the sacred scriptures, and then they gradually commenced to formulate the rules and the norms to ensure ethnic and religious unity respecting to the religion.
It is interesting to note that although a group of Jewish people know “Talmud” is adapted from the words of Jewish rabbis (Clergymen), but they assigned a sublime dignity upon it insomuch that they believe the God consult with rabbis in any problems which cannot be solved in heaven! And anyone who disagrees with the Law of Moses, his sin will be forgiven, but if he disagrees with Talmud, his destination is death.
The result of the accuracy of some researchers’ discretion is that Talmud is not only made by the Jewish people, but also it has given shape and form to this people during the later times.
The importance of this significant issue appears when we know that many of the official rules and protocols of Zionism in modern times are new interpretations of Jewish rabbis [the consultants of God] from sources such as Talmud. Of course, when Talmud states:
“The difference between a Jew and a Gentile is as much as the difference between the humans and animals.”
Would not a genocide license of animals be issued by the only group of humans or the premier people by a newer version of religious texts!?
“Israel Shahak”, a Jewish scholar, and an obstinate opponent of Global Zionist, has explained in his book, “The Jewish history - The Jewish religion”, the justifications of propagandist Rabbis of “Talmud” about the homicide and genocide of the gentile people well.