Well here is a news report on efforts at Conflict Management and we indians in true fashion start abusing each others religions. You have a Hindu quoting quran, a Christian eugolising Ravana, a Muslim writing about Advaitha...
Its amazing how we have read each others religious books only to pick and choose things to beat others with, rather than realising the common theme of all these books.
You are right Ibrahim Sheikh Sahab, Hindus have multitude of thoughts and democracy to choose the path to salvation and its this confusion that allows other communities to flourish and rule over Hindus.
Has all Hindus followed Advaitha as Muslims practise it, given the age of the Hindu religion, there would have been just one Hindu Rashtra around the globe.
RE:Kashmir and Talks
by Ibrahim Sheik on Apr 25, 2007 01:21 PM Permalink
If all Hindus would have Followed Advaitha, then there won't be Multiple Gods and No more Idols, which means everybody would have been Muslims.. Bcoz Muslims are the true Followers of Advaitha...
RE:Kashmir and Talks
by Nomad on Apr 25, 2007 03:26 PM Permalink
Hinduism traces its history to times when probably there were no people living in Saudi Arabia. And here you funnily try to imply that the Son sired the Grandfather. Shouting from the roof tops about how Islam is the religion of peace and then coming into the streets and shooting, looting and raping in the name of Allah seems pretty counter-intuitive.
If you are an Indian and lived in India, there is a popular street clasification of the wealthy - Naye Paise Waley and Puraney Paisey Waley... I hope you get what I mean.
If I remember correctly, Advaitha Texts are not covered in the list of "Hum Kitaabs"... Hum Kitaab I feel was a strategic weapon to make the Islamic thought acceptable to the other dominant communities of that time and now you trying to pull a fast one on Advaitha Philosophy %u2026 Smart, Very smart. As regards Muslims being true followers of Advaitha, let in that case me make the comment just like yours that only 1% muslims truly follow the tenets of Islam to the T, if you had then maybe you would have automatically become Advaits.
But the Sad Tragedy is that interpretations of the Quran have remained steeped in the 700 AD socio-cultural realities. And it will happen just as it has kept happening with Hinduism, that from within Islamic World, reformers will emerge, who will synch the interpretations to present times.
Everything takes time to mature, religion included. Remember your own teenage years, when Fists were the solutions to all problems. I feel that%u2019s the situation in the Islamic world today. Followers of Islam have forgotten the basic tenets and are acting like a bullying teenager who wants everyone to follow what he has to say. The percentage of such misguided and misled bullies may be small but their methods and area of operation is so wide that everybody has started instinctively mistrusting anything Islamic.
I personally am of the opinion that Religion is personal and should be confined to the personal area of a person. But it pains my rational self when people start hate campaigns in the name of religion or start quoting things that they do not know off. Just look at the responses to other comments and replies that have been posted in response to this article and see how religious books have been quoted out of context. For instance, One gentleman makes Ravana the Dravidian king whereas as per Ramayana, Ravana was a Brahmin and got classified as an Asura because of his actions. And the gentleman who has done this professes Christianity as his faith%u2026
