These fellas throw their opinions on these students and since their religions teaches them that what they are taught is righ, they don't even read other historians.
what is the evolution of islam based on. where was it just 1300 years ago.
Hindus are known to bath daily and in fact old scriptures like mahabartha (written 1000s of years before Quran) clearly show this.
REgarding Idol worship. Well, then what's a mosque. Going to a Mosque assuming it to be the dwelling of God itself is idol worship.
All the medieval islamic scholars are non-arabic and almost every book of them is transalated from sanskrit. So much for muslims being highly educated etc.
RE:Madrasa Myths
by Secular Indian on Feb 28, 2007 08:32 AM Permalink
You are right, not just that there is physical evidence, every house in the cities that make up the Indus Valley Civilization or whatever you want to call it, had a bath. The sanitation of the cities makes modern Indian cities look primitive by comparison.
Yet Indians have to suffer such ignorant pronouncements it's baffling. This hatred and ignorance, one can understand if a foreigner does it, they could be pardoned for ignorance but Indians themselves ?
U Mohammed Sheikh yeah? Get ur facts right. Hindus don't worship cow, monkey etc. Some of the animals and plants are sacred to them only because they are known to have assisted their God in one way or the other. If a Camel had helped an injured Mohammed the Prpohet in War while no other person around is able to help him, wouldn't that camel hold a position of respect to U.
Regarding Muslims copying from Hindu books. How many examples do you want. First let me make some points on your own Quran clear to you. If your so called Mohammed the prophet was given divine powers to recite all of a sudden because he was uneducated and that's why people around him wondered how he could recite the stuff. What everybody in that era didn't understand was that like a parrot Mohammed only talked something didn't write all of a sudden. An uneducated person can very easily tell a story by hearing it from someone.
The Quran was written many years after Mohammed, so it's liable that after each conquest or victory, they wrote whatever suited the victorious. It's even common today. The victorious only write history not the losers.
Duncan writes in The Calender "In 773, some 250 years after Aryabhath's death, a delegation of diplomats from lower Indus River Valley arrived in the new Arab capital of Baghdad. Dressed in bright coloured silks, turbans and glittering gems, ... Arriving at last outside the gates of al-Mansur's (the founder of the Abbasid dynasty) magnificent city This particular delegation also brought with them an astronomer, ..Kanaka. An expert on eclipse, he carried with him a small library of Indian astronomical texts to give to the Caliph, including the Surya Siddhanta and the works of Brahmagupta(containing material on Aryabhata) . Nothing more is known about this Kanaka. The first known reference to him was written some five hundred years later by an Arab historian named al-Qifti.
According to al-Qifti, the caliph was amazed by the knowledge in the Indian texts. He immediately ordered them to be translated into Arabic and their essence compiled into a textbook that became known as the Great Sindhind (Sindhind is the Arabic form of the Sanskrit word Siddhanta )." Incidents like this were necessary " in order to bring the works of India into the sphere of the early Islamic scholars, whence they would travel to Christian Europe through Syria, Sicily and Arab controlled Spain. A version of the Great Sindhind would be translated into Latin in 1126. This was one of the dozens of critical documents that would contribute to the knowledge base needed to propel Europe into the modern age" Duncan adds.
Do want more historical facts or U wanna go any study in that funny islamic madrasas of Paki a land given in generosity to Muslims by Hindus.
RE:Madrasa Myths
by amjad ali khan on Mar 05, 2007 11:57 AM Permalink
I congratulate you for making an effort to write about Mosque and muslims.
The correct word is Masjid, derived from arabic word "Sajada" which means to prostrate oneself (in worship) and Masajid means the place where Sajada is made. For muslims whole world is the place where U can prostrate. Only requirement is it should be Clean and free of impurities.
Secondly, Idol means an image used as an object of worhip. We do not have any image in any of the Masjid.
"Ek Tu Hi Nirankar"
We muslims do not have a practice of idol worship.
As far as I know, origin of Islam is right from the origin of human kind, i.e. From Adam (peace be upon him). Allah has send messengers from time to time to remind us about worshipping one God (Allah) as he is the one worthy of worhip and refrain from worhipping false Gods. Muhammad (peace be upon him) is the last and final messenger of Allah.
If we want to know Islam, we have to see his Muhammad's (PBUH)life and how he had practice the commands of Allah.
If our objective is to acquire the correct knowledge of any topic, we should not approach with a pre-dermined mindset. It will only take us in wrong direction and not to the truth.
If U want to know Islam, approach a scholar, it will help u in having a better knowledge and correct perspective.
