Islam is not a religion but a divine constitution for human community as to how it should organise to manage all its affairs in this life for the good outcome in this life as well as the next.
Islam is all about goals and guidelines for achieving them eg rights and responsibilities and rules and regulations. The goals are freedom, justice, fairness, compassion, brotherhood, progress and prosperity of mankind in both the worlds.
The set goals are so vast and difficult to achieve that trying to struggle for them leaves hardly any time for people to waste in all sorts of other nonsense that they have invented in the name of God ie make beliefs and dogmatic creeds and nonsense rituals do not help at all. If I need clear air to breath no matter how many babas I worship they cannot bring me clean air, that cannot happen unless people understand what pollutes air and what will help clean it and go ahead and do it. If people need fresh water they must work towards getting it only then they will get it. If people need food they need to work towards that and they will get it. It is because people are looking for answers of their problems in the wrong places and in the wrong ways that they get nothing other than more and more humiliation.
Allah created the world because it was his choice. Allah set up the world the way he wanted. He explained it all in his message so that we get to know things and behave in a way that brings us benefits rather harm and destruction and humiliation.
Spirits, angels, gods, demons are all religious concepts not concepts of the quran. The very simple way to know truth about these make belief concepts is that there is no proof for existence of such things on one hand and that by process of elimination we can see what these things cannot be.
The quran does not use words like ROOH, JIN,MALAIKAH, SHAITAAN in the sense the people take them as per their make beliefs. For example do jins have those powers that people attribute to them? If they did what kind of things would be expected to happen in the world the way they are assumed to behave?
If jins could fly to heavens, could they not have told what universe looked like to kufaar scientists long time ago? What would be the point for muslims telling kufaars today, look there are scientific facts mentioned in the quran long before scientists discovered them?
Copuld they not explain to them how things worked eg day and night phenomena and rain cycle etc etc? Today we know things which people did not know long before because we can fly away from the earth, which jins supposedly have been doing right from the start as per peoples' beliefs. What about so called satan, could he not tell a lot of universal secrets to people long before humans were able to find them out?
These like questions show how stupid human beings are who believe just anything. This is why when people who think critically read the quranic translations and interpretations they laugh at them because they wrap up the quran into all sorts of nonsense. Thus rather than guiding people we misguide them thanks to our own ignorance.
These babas if they had any such visions or powers which people attribute to them then they would have helped interpret the quranic verses correctly so their failure in doing that only shows that they did not have such powers. It would be a serious contradiction in their desire and behaviour that they wanted to spread divine knowledge but failed to convey it properly knowingly eg they knew what solar system was but still did not disclose that it was not earth centred but sun centred.
Prophet solomon and david stories are already discussed wherein people show no sensible thinking at all. We have seen how peers and mullahs use and abuse ignorant people in the name of all sorts of their make beliefs.
What makes me sad is that even educated people on this very forum are trapped in stupidity and they think they are thekedaar of islam. We have already discussed stories of jins regarding how they posses people and how exorcists get rid of them as per peoples' make beliefs. All these are make beliefs yet even educated people accept them all the same. If today humanity is in such low form as regard education then how long more we need to become knowledgeable? The quran and before that earlier books have been always telling us the same thing but we kept our make beliefs in tact and instead of learning from divine books we just managed to wrap up them as well in our own whims.
I also gave other arguments that if jinns, magic etc are all that what people believe about them to be then why is there need for nuclear weapons or any weapons for that matter? Why we need spies when jins can do this for us? Peers who claim powers for themselves or claim to have jins under their control, why don't they get money from banks for them or women and make them big houses etc etc? Why are they collecting pennies on street corners if they can easily get what they want with magical powers?
So please use your brains if you have them and stop aiding stupidity. Islam is that which is in the quran and this is how the quran proves truth against falsehood and nonsense.
Even if one thinks that I am talking nonsense about the quran please at at least realise that what you believe is definitely not true about magic and jins and powers you attribute to babas etc. Just for once think about why quran keeps arguing using solid facts? Why every other page of the quran invites us to be wise and use brains and observe universe? The quran leaves us no room to be superstitious and stupid. I mean we have tried our best to hide truth in the quran yet it keeps shinning through. The quran has surely defeated us again and again but are we giving up on trying to fight it again and again? No, we must have yet another try to prove that we are right and the quran is wrong.
Hope people wake up to reality, I can only try to explain things what I make of them from the quran. May Allah open our eyes to the truth.