Your comments indicates a basic lack of understanding of the Hindu Religion. Being a Muslim should not limit your thinking process or your ability to understand other faiths.
Reason for idol worship: We Hindus believe that God is omni-present. Probably you believe the same. Because He is omni-present, He occupies all the space in the Universe. This includes us Humans, Trees, Animals, Stone, Everything. So essentially you can pray to anyone and anything and God will be present there. The presence of an idol or an image helps focussing while praying. Would you rather see and listen to a movie or only listen to one ? The image helps in the Visualization process.
Hinduism allows us to even worship Allah or Christ aswell. The Goal is Nirvana, Enlightment or Moksha. The path is immaterial. The destination is important. Such thoughts come from maturity of the religion. Cristianity / Islam felt very insecure for its existance when they were formed. That is why their founders prohibited acceptance of other religions. I am sure that after a couple of thousands, your religions will attain this maturity. And I do not say this out of skepticm. I really mean it.
RE:Explaination of Idol Worship
by saif muneer on Aug 31, 2007 04:16 AM Permalink
"Because He is omni-present, He occupies all the space in the Universe."
GOD created TIME & SPACE. HE cannot be limited or defined by TIME and SPACE. HE is not INSIDE or OUTSIDE. HE is not EVERYWHERE or NOWHERE.
CREATOR is separate from CREATION. This the teaching of ISLAM.
RE:Explaination of Idol Worship
by Milind on Aug 31, 2007 07:35 AM Permalink
I realize that indeed there are some similarities between the Hinduism and Islam as far as God is concerned. I agree that God is not limited by time or space. The only difference is Islam distinctly creates the CREATER and CREATION where as Hinduism says CREATER exists everywhere including the hearts of its CREATION.
Regarding Time and Space, this is dealt with in detail in Hinduism wherein we believe everything starts from zero or Nothing. "Srushti ke pehle kuch nahi tha. Satya bhi nahi tha or Asatya bhi nahi tha". My Christian colleague told me that Scientists now believe that Universe as it exists today is due to the imbalance of matter and anti-matter. Apperently he had read the theory in Hinduism before I did.
RE:Explaination of Idol Worship
by Milind on Aug 31, 2007 02:39 AM Permalink
I meant a couple of thousand years for Christianity/Islam to accept other faiths. Islam in its current form my take much longer than Christianity. Ofcourse in all fairness, it is younger than Christianity aswell.
RE:Explaination of Idol Worship
by mohammed siddiqui on Sep 03, 2007 03:31 AM Permalink
I think u r Hindu . so plz read this from Vedas. "Ekam evadvitiyam" "He is One only without a second." [Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]1
"Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah." "Of Him there are neither parents nor lord." [Svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9]2
"Na tasya pratima asti" "There is no likeness of Him." [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19]3
The following verses from the Upanishad allude to the inability of man to imagine God in a particular form:
"Na samdrse tisthati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam."
"His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye." [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]4
Pakistan - A land which was long before Indian where hindoo-spine-less kids roamed for long from eternity.
1947 - Partition and finally 4 states
Islamic states - pak, bangla, afgan
Need to know the state of your wife/sister/mothers when ISlamic jihadists survive in India
These are cuurent news from Pak.. It was India before.. Same Indian muslims lived there. Now why/how do u beleive ur current India muslims will spare ur ladies.. They may not..
Pakistan - A land which was long before Indian where hindoo-spine-less kids roamed for long from eternity.
1947 - Partition and finally 4 states
Islamic states - pak, bangla, afgan
Need to know the state of your wife/sister/mothers when ISlamic jihadists survive in India
These are cuurent news from Pak.. It was India before.. Same Indian muslims lived there. Now why/how do u beleive ur current India muslims will spare ur ladies.. They may not..
why bother who has put the bomb.even if terrorists are caught they will be left freely by our generous politicians. govt of india should reward terrorists for putting bombs and invite dawood,osama,afzulguru ,sharabuddin,terror uddin,killer uddin,rape uddin etc and give them bharata ratna award.
RE:why bother who has put bomb - leave terrorist freely
by Abdul Haleem on Sep 01, 2007 03:50 PM Permalink
why you abusing muslim, r u muslim? i dont think so.
RE:Dont be DIVIDED, stupid!
by mindgod on Aug 30, 2007 08:46 PM Permalink
Ok, if WEST-INDIA-COMPANY has not come what would have happened to India..??
Any Ideas??
Number one, there wont be any Pak.. No Bangla, and No Afgan too.. Instead a Behemoth "Islamic Sharia state of Muslistan"..
Do u have any doubts dear..
In another way British Invassion of India was a blessing in disguise.
But if Brishers had not come here, U chinese-Commies also wont be there..
Have ever heard of COMMIES in paki-land and bangla-land or Afgan-talib-land. Why not,..?
They were also Indians before right??
Why not dear??
U would have to migrate to CHINA land. But you dont look like them, at the most u can clean that Mao-zedongs servants toilet..
Dear, U cant match USA Not in people power Not in Military power Not in money power Not in Cunningness Not in Courage Not in heartlessness Not in pragmatism Not in Technology Not in freedom Not in Media-power Not in religious-power the roman-empire..
Then why do u bark so much..
UNCLE will send us dog-catching robot. like Predator-drones will hell-fire missiles. Talibans knowm, how it would be..
RE:Dont be DIVIDED, stupid!
by mindgod on Aug 31, 2007 03:35 PM Permalink
I am honoured by ur title. Ha ha , keep trying to finght crusaders and USA...
when u are tired, try a Coco-colla, a USA product.
RE:All this is mohHAMmad's fault
by sameer Bhagawat on Aug 30, 2007 02:38 PM Permalink
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm
The guy looks more like a Shiva sena and RSS recruit than from any Madarsa. Why Indian government and police never investigate the internal threats to India, why they cover up Bajrangdal bomb making factory case in Nanded etc%u2026 ?
RE:What about internal threats
by hiral joshi on Aug 30, 2007 02:49 PM Permalink
Wow we have a great investigator onboard who can say from the face that which organisation he/she belongs. BTW madarassa recruits want go with skull cap and long beard for planting bombs. What do you mean by "They"? Isnt Maharashtra govt run by Congress and NCP? If there is even 0.0001 % of truth in Nanded case about the involvement of Bajrang Dal, Why would govt sit silent?
All is done in this attack, we had the names, organization, place, date of training when they entered when they got training who trained them.
Now we have a picture to the name as well.
So this case is good enough to be closed. Same happened in the last blast as well.
BTW why the attack in both the cases was like AP Naxalites?? Check for news on international channels.
Example:
Mr Desai son failed in exam because of the following reason.
1. School was irresponsible 2. School was short of teachers. 3. Teaching in school was not as per standard. 4. The exam papers were tough this year. 5. Son of Mr Yadav [my next door neighbour was not allowing my son to study. 6. We had world cup cricket this year. 7. Indian Idol, Sa-re-ga-ma-pa and Voice of India was telecasted at the wrong time. 8. The paper setter had put 3 question which were our of syllabus. 9. The examination center did not had a fan 10. The Gap between paper was very little for my son to prepare for his next paper.
I do not see any issues with my Son, as HE IS MY SON......
Grow up rather then blaming look for 10 reasons which were your responsibility
RE:All Done now wait for another attack
by kali on Aug 30, 2007 09:57 AM Permalink
tooooooooo handsome..muaahhhh..what if he is a terrorist...jsut mind-blowingly handsome guy! muaaaahhhh
