The importance of finding the 'Authentic Source'.

I watched Delhi-6 last night. It seems like an ok movie, but I liked the concept behind it. The story revolves around a true incident that took place in Delhi in 2001. This incident depicted in the film, is about a Black-monkey, in contrast to the original ‘Monkey-man’. It just tells, of how a rumour probably a true one off incident can float and take many faces. How it can take lives, the terror and the superstitions can survive, how some religious and political leaders can take a role and manipulate the people.

The idea behind it is very simple, I wasn’t aware that it was a true incident that took place. I googled it today, to find out that it was actually true. It is amazing to see, how in our society, people just build on to things that never exist. The fact that we never think about ‘the source’ it is coming from. But just that someone said it somewhere, and someone might have seen it somewhere. Without even thinking if ‘it is actually true’. Such news are so easy to float around, but then it is scary to think about the consequences it then makes and the shape it takes with each one, adding a new part to it.

We are constantly involved in this habit to forward emails and news around to everyone without checking their source. I keep receiving forwarded emails that have no authentic source attached to the news. And if we just look at the news itself, we instantly believe it and then base our thinking on it, pass it on without checking what lies behind actually exists or not. I received a forwarded email from a group. I am pasting the forwarded "news" for your interest:

Nasa - Sunrise from the West

The science of astronomy states that the speed of planet Mars has been decreasing in its course toward the eastern direction in the past few weeks to the level we notice the "waver" between the east and the west..and on Wednesday the 30th of July the planet movement stopped going toward the eastern direction.. Then in the months of August and September...Mars changed its course in the opposite direction to the West- and that until the end of September..which means the sun will rise now from the west on Mars!! And this weird phenomena of the opposite movement called "Retrograde Motion" Most scientist state that all the planets will go through the same once at least and our planet Earth is one of them. Planet Earth will move in the opposite direction some day and the sun will rise from the west!!
This might occur soon and we are unaware! The rise of the sun from the west is mentioned in the hadith and this is the major sign of the day of judgment, most if not All, the minor signs have occurred. Wake up.
Our beloved messenger Mohamed (Peace Be Upon Him) said: "One of the signs of the hour..the sun will rise from the west, where no longer tauba(forgiveness) will be granted" !!And the strange thing..most of our Shariah scholars mentioned that the rise of the sun from the west occurs only once..on that day..the sun will rise from the west..then again from the east..and continues until Allah wishes..and this is similar to what is happening to Mars..it stops, then it changes its course of direction for a short period of time..then returns to way once it was.
And Abdullah Bin Amro (R.A.) said: (I memorized from the messenger (SAW) a hadith I will never forget..I heard the messenger of Allah (SAW) say: The first aya to come the rise of the sun from the west) [Ahmad]
And the messenger SAW "Allah (SWT) places HIS hand at night to forgive his morning sinners, and places in the morning to forgive his night sinners until the sun rises from the west" [Muslim]
This piece of news is very important as it brings with it a great sign of warning and remembrance of the coming of a new WORLD - the world of he Hereafter When we show this hadith that was told 1400 years ago about this miracle..you will see InshaALLAH, a lot will rivert to right path...And the muslims if they see this phenomena happening in
Mars..who knows maybe it would bring them closer to our CREATOR.
May Allah (swt) keep all of us in the Right path and provide us with
success in this world as well as in the hereafter.

When I read it first, I thought, well, this is very important news. But why have I not read about any such news in any of the local or international newspapers? Nor I have seen any such news on T.V. So I googled it, by simply typing: Nasa - Sunrise from the West. All I found in the search results was, the forums, where this news was being posted and the people’s commenting on it. I did not find, any newspaper revealing such a story. It is interesting to read the discussions on the chat forums. They actually believe that this is a true story and are actually building facts and false theories around it. Without even finding out the actual source. It is also interesting to note, how such a story is then linked to Hadith and the revelations in the Quran. Apart from this, the above pasted article has got so many, spelling mistakes and errors that it, in no way looks like a published piece.

One of the things that is the most interesting is that, whenever we hear a news and there is a course of religion or a reference of Hadiths attached at the end of it, we do not think beyond that. Rather we think, this had to happen to this is happening. I am not denying the fact that the revelations made by the Quran and as described by the Hadiths are not happening. But I am strictly against the rotation of false news and then linking it to the Quran and the Hadiths.

We don’t realize, but this is a very important issue. It is time, that we all must try and find the real sources behind all the rumours and the news that we are surrounded with. Otherwise, as a result we face consequences as depicted in the movie Delhi-6 and so many more that still lay unrevealed!

Also read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey-man_of_New_Delhi#Last_sightings
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/all-views/159958-nasa-sunrise-west.html
http://my.opera.com/mailmurshed/blog/index.dml/tag/Nasa%20-%20Sunrise%20from%20the%20West
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3430