Al-Marsad newspaper: The writer Abdullah bin Bakheet said: People in the Kingdom have started receiving lessons at the hands of our esteemed preachers in mosques, in schools, in rest houses, in cemeteries, on screens, tapes, and in summer centers. A great crowd of teachers supported them implanting these lessons in the students’ heads in parallel with the approved school lessons.
He added in an article he published in Okaz, entitled “Expel the Superstitions from the Arabian Peninsula”: No one has escaped for forty years. These lessons formed a cultural structure that transcends reason. It was filled with jinn, magic, tomb monsters, and ancient legends.
The writer saw that in many cases it replaced reality, so the societal culture approached the culture of primitive man. The decline reached that the mother bought the cup-washer after every occasion to drink from them and to drink her children.
naked woman
The writer referred to what one of the preachers was saying: “The preacher tells: He was in a hotel outside the kingdom. He heard a knock on the door of his room, and there was a naked Russian woman (you can imagine), so he entered his room and covered her (first) and after a quarter of an hour of the invitation he convinced her to convert to Islam, so she entered. Islam and its goodness in Islam, and when she traveled to Moscow, she became a preacher, even though her family is Christian extremists.”
He pointed to what another preacher was reciting: Solomon asked his Lord to allow him to feed all his creatures in one day, and of course the resolve failed because the number of creatures on land (six hundred!) is a nation and the same in the sea… to the end of the myth.
Jinn prayer
He referred to what the preacher was saying: I was praying in righteousness, and when I said, “Not the lost ones,” I heard voices saying “Amen.” He discovered that the jinn were praying behind him. And he added: And the preacher tells us that one of them fell his wallet in the grave, and when he returned and dug the grave, he saw the horrors suffered by the dead who hear songs.
And he went on: A preacher asks an Israeli why you occupy Jerusalem, and you know that the Muslims will liberate it; The Jew answers: Only those who perform the prayer on time will free it. And he continued: Another tells us that the jinn eat rice, and a third teaches us the scientific methods for deciphering sorcery, and even established an integrated unit to hunt down sorcerers and decipher sorcery by scientific methods. And another tells us that the jinn come from India to receive knowledge from the sheikhs. This is not casting bullets in the ears of song-lovers, and what our preachers have discovered in the graves are the least horrific potential of the brave and bald man.
Promotion of superstitions
The writer explained that in the past forty years, the content of the preachers’ discourse has evolved and crystallized in four axes; The first calls for violence and hatred, the second promotes superstition, the third degrades women, and the fourth is fighting the arts. It may seem that advocating violence and degrading women is more important and more dangerous than promoting superstition, but with a little reflection you will see that promoting superstition is the incubator of all evil. It is not possible for a person to accept suicide, kill innocent people, and despise those closest to him without there being a defect in his mind and way of thinking.
Bin Bakhit considered that this culture was installed in the minds of many people as a way of thinking and shaped their view of their world. We will find among those who have listened to these stories someone who is good at alchemy but has been led into this world to live two lives; His collective life and his private life.
songs with beats
The writer pointed out: Many of us remember the Saudi doctor, who began to hear songs with the patient’s heartbeat. This doctor mixed in his mind what he had learned while studying at a respectable college with what he had heard from preachers, and we all know the woman who discovered that camel urine cures cancer, and the owners of scientific miracles and the legal sophists who spew on water tanks.
The writer concluded his article with his advice, saying: In order to bury terrorism, violence, and contempt for women, and restore the value of the scientific mind, we must eradicate the culture planted by preachers by systematically transforming this superstitious culture into an artistic material in drama, comedy and sketches, and prohibiting the pursuit of witches and the job of the legitimate upscale.