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NO IDOL WORSHIP IN PURE HINDUISM
by Ibrahim Sheik on Jun 24, 2007 04:34 PM

NO IDOL WORSHIP IN PURE HINDUISM

Brahma - Creator - Khaliq %u2013 Rigveda Book 2 Hymn 1 Verse 3

Amongst the various attributes given in Rigveda, one of the beautiful attributes for Almighty God is Brahma. Brahma means %u2018the Creator. If you translate into Arabic it means Khaliq. Islam does not object to anyone calling Almighty God as Khaliq or Creator or Brahma, but if someone says that Brahma i.e. Almighty God has got four heads and on each head is a crown and this Brahma has got four hands, Islam takes strong exception to it because such descriptions give an image to Almighty God. Such descriptions are also against what is propounded in Yajurveda Chapter 32, verse 3 which says:

Na tasya pratima asti
There is no image of Him.
(Yajurveda 32:3)


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