HOW THE SCRIPTURES ARE CORRUPTED BY VESTED INTERESTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE BIBLE.
Let us give you, gentle reader, an example of corruption, which will serve to paint a brief picture of how deep the Orientalist imagination ran, and how it ended up completely distorting the original meaning of the very accurate Biblical narrative. In the second Book of Kings, we come across the following passage:
“Now Ahaziah had a fall from the upper window of his chamber (attic / lattice) in Samara, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them: “Inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not”.
And here follows the correct rendering of the Biblical passage:
““Now Ahaziah suffered defeat in al-Shabakh/al-Shabak in Samara, and he sent his men, and said to them: “Go to the Dhabub Vale, and seek the aid / assistance of the leaders of „Aqrun””. (2nd Kings 1:3).
There is no “fall from an attic”, nor any pagan insect idol, nor any “illness” or “disease” whatsoever in the Aramaic text. The only disease is in the Orientalist imagination, which rendered the text to suit its own agenda, turned proper nouns into common words, and deviously projected Ekron and Samara onto the Palestinian territory.
I hope we can identify from this example the kind of methodology adopted by the usurper Umayyad dynasty to corrupt the original socio-political ideology of Quran and Islam into fictitious tales and worship rituals.