Basic Beliefs of Hinduism & Islam

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Islam

  1. In Islam, belief in One God is the most important belief. Allah in arabic refers to the One God. It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser deities. This is not the case with Allah. Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or gender. This shows its uniqueness when compared with the word god which can be made plural, gods, or feminine, goddess. It is interesting to notice that Allah is the personal name of God in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and a sister language of Arabic. The One true God is a reflection of the unique concept that Islam associates with God. To a Muslim, Allah is the Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of the universe, Who is similar to nothing and nothing is comparable to Him. (monotheism)
  1. In Islam, all humans are created equal. For example, there is no superiority of an Arab over a non-Arab, or vice versa. Blacks and whites have no superiority over each other. The same holds with any other nationality or ethnicity. Islam rejects characterizing God in any human form or depicting Him as favoring certain individuals or nations on the basis of wealth, power or race. He created the human beings as equals. They may distinguish themselves and get His favor through virtue and piety only.
  1. Muslims eat all wholesome and good food including meat of cows (beef), lamb, goat, and chicken.
  1. Muslims believe that each person has a body and soul. At death, your body is separated from your soul. Your faith and actions in this life will determine your fate in the Life After Death. There is a Day of Judgment when this life will come to an end for every one, and all humans from Adam to the last person, will be brought to a second life, rejoining of your body and soul. On that Day, God will put people in Hell or Heaven based on their beliefs and deeds of this life.

Hinduism

  1. Hinduism has many deities. This is much like ancient Greek and Roman religions. The god Brahma is the creator of the world. The god Vishnu who preserves the world through his many incarnations. The god Shiva will destroy the world which will be rebuilt by Brahma. In their Rig-Veda Book, we find prayers to some 70 objects, each serving as a deity. The concept of god Brahma is similar to the concept of Trinity in Christianity. The Brahma is responsible for all workings of the world and everyone is a part of him. Different gods are viewed as different aspects of him. (polytheism)
  1. Hinduism has a caste system, with four major castes. Members of each are required by strict religious laws to follow certain hereditary occupations and to refrain from intermarriage or eating with members of the other castes. The highest, or priestly and intellectual, caste is that of the Brahmans. The remaining three in order are Kshatriya (ruling or warrior caste), Vaisya (common artisan and agricultural caste), and the Sudras (the low caste people).
  1. Cow is a sacred animal and a deity for Hindus. Cows, therefore, can not be killed or eaten in Hinduism.
  1. Hinduism believes in body and soul. Your soul returns to your body after your death. This cycle repeats seven times according to some. Your status or caste in next life depends on your deeds of the previous life. This is called Reincarnation in Hinduism.

I hope all hindus agree.

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Hey, if you want a review of what I think are the basic Hindu tenets, I wrote an article on that earlier this year, for my mandhir:

http://users.ev1.net/~akgoel/SanathanaDharma/columns/march23.htm

Basically, I argue for or against 9 points that are basic to what most Hindus believe.

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I will check that out inshallah. So, you are trying to reform the hinduism? Anyway, I will have more on this from the books of hinduism.

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Watcher

You are a sad sad person. By comparing 2 religions are trying to make out that yours is better, you are only inviting others to come rushing back to say that, "no, yours is not better,"

You believe in something, fine, carry on with it, but don't try to thrust it down other people's throats.

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Banta sahib, I maybe sad person. You look more confuse than everone else on this forum. Confusion is a very bad trait in human beings. Sadness does come along in life, every enjoys it sometimes.

**That is just comparision on 2 religions. What do you find offensive abou it? **

Maybe, Islam looked better to you, a scene that you do not like to see.

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May Allah help you my friend. Hope you can understand.

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Watcher

You can not compare 2 beliefs with each other and try to establish that one is better than the other.

One man's meat is other man's poison. Let me give you some examples.Apart from the jews and muslims all the others eat pork and find it ok to eat. Muslims and jews will only eat halal or kosher the others don't mind eitherway. Chinese eat dogs and even snakes, everybody else can not even bare to think about it. French eat horse, arabs and asians eat goat meat, yet English people think it is disgusting to eat goat or horse meat. Hindus and Sikhs don't eat beef, because the animal whose milk you have drunk has the same status of a mother. Chinese have bird nest soup, yet to me it sounds disgusting.

Stop criticising other people's practices. You can only point a finger at others if you are totally perfect, I can assure you that even Islam does not qualify to be totally perfact. I tried to bring up some points on another thread started by kabir, but the thread has been taken off.

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Sir, where in the post does it suggest that one religion is better than the other???

Are you still in that “hindu is absurd religion” post? Please, the post have changed, you are in a new post. I NEVER CALLED ANY RELIGION BETTER THAN THE OTHER! Why are you pre-judging like that, does your religion teach you to act like this towards others? HUH?

You look way over confused, are you allright sir?

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Watcher

What is the purpose of this thread. You are a sad human being. If any Hindu and Sikh will start comparing Islam they will be label Islam haters and the thread will be taken off.

Don't play innocent....I can list numerous points that will tell you that Sikhism is superior religion than Islam...you want that let me know and I will oblige. I also hope admin will allow us to present our truth as they have allowed you to do that and will not consider it bashing but just the truth the way non-muslims see it.

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Watcher

OK OK

You may be right about me actully being confused about the whole thing, because I'm finding it very difficult to understand the reasons behind your motives of comparing Islam with Hinduism.

Or are you in fact trying to enlighten your fellow muslims about the good points of Hindu religion, just in case any one of them is cinsidering to convert to Hinduism?

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Watcher,

All this has already been discussed in a previous thread posted by Andhra the Brahmin titled ‘Islam v Hinduism’. It was one of the most successful threads ever, and you might want to have a browse through it before continuing this, because most of this stuff has already been covered. Just follow this link:

http://www3.pak.org/gupshup/Forum13/HTML/001269.html

Most of your questions will be answered there.

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Banta sahib, let me rephrase this again: Hinduism have basic beliefs right? So does Islam, Right? Ok, what is the big deal that I posted the both the basic beliefs of Hinduism and the basic beliefs of Islam what is so bad/wrong about that?

Did I posted wrong information on hinduism? Are those not the basic beliefs of Hinduism?

DON’T think of it as a comparision please! Its like reading a book on Islam and than on hinduism, what so bad about that? If that is not correct information, he I ll be glad to take it off.

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I don’t see the problem here. ANYONE else?

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Hey Xtreme thanks. I will look into that.

Banta sahib posted this in other thread:

“find is that in Hinduism it is up to the induvidual to decide, how far he wants to follow his religion, where as in Islam it is other people’s business.
There is no freedom of choice in Islam”

That is most ignorent, more biased, comment I have heard on Islam so far. Do you have any knowledge of Islam sir? Any basice knowledge? Ever read quran?

I don’t think you went here > http://www3.pak.org/gupshup/Forum13/HTML/001552.html

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Ok, I read the post, its pretty long, half way through actually. Our hindu friends, did not exactly answered the questions, but rather are telling us to go to the library and read your self. Hmmmmm, excuses. As GFQ said in other post, they know it is the truth, but they are affraid to admit it, they are afraid. They try hard to present their religion out of the folds of their scriptures, but religion are judged by their scriptures. I liked this reply by Nabeel sahib.

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Originally posted by Nabeelc:

Mulims knew things 1400 years ago what hindus are still unaware of or became aware recently. A few examples.....

1) The big bang theory

"Do the unbelievers not realize that
the heavens and the earth used to be
one solid mass that
we exploded into existence?
And from water we made all living things.
Would they believe?"
The Qur'an 21:30

2) Perfectly created universes

"He created seven universes in layers.
You do not see any imperfection
in the creation by the Most Gracious.
Keep looking; do you see any flaw?
Look again and again; your eyes will
come back stumped and conquered."
Qur'an 67:3-4.

3) Geological facts
"When you look at the mountains,
you think that they are standing still.
But they are moving, like the clouds.
Such is the manufacture of GOD,
Who perfected everything.
He is fully Cognizant of
everything you do. "
Qur'an 27:88

4) Preservation of genetic data, It is the miracle that Quran said that fingerprints of each person are uniqure and it will be true till the judgement day

"75/3. Does the human being think that
We will not reconstruct his bones ?
75/4. Yes indeed; We are able to
recreate even his fingerprint."

Quran (75.3-4)

You non-muslims say that we muslims live in the 6th century and you (non-muslims) change with time. It is because we do not need to change. The Quran was authentic, it is authentic, and it will be authentic till the judgement day because it the world of God. And God knows what will be in the 6th centry, in the 21th century and so on. You (non-muslims) follow the religion that has no authenticity and you have nothing to stand on, so you change with the time. Islam teaches us how to live, how to act, how to treat people. I came across so many hindus in the IT PROFESSION, very few of them had the manners to act or speak, they are still ignorant of the basic knowledge of life. If you ask them who created you, they say "I dunno know". They don't know which one of theri gods to name because they have many. (they are so proud of being dominated in the IT industry).
1400 years ago, non-muslims must be foolish enough to make fun of muslims when reading "the heavens and the earth used to be one solid mass", it is because they were ignorant.
We follow Quran blindly because we know it is nothing but the truth.
Allah says,
"Do they not handle Quran with care, if it was from other than Allah, it would had in it many discrepencies"

May Allah guide us all.

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YES MAY ALLAH GUIDE YOU.

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*That is most ignorent, more biased, comment I have heard on Islam so far. Do you have any knowledge of Islam sir? Any basice knowledge? Ever read quran? *

Any thing aganist Islam is ignorant and biased and anything aganist eastern religions is honest questioning and should be handled in a mature way...Bahut Khoob. Your insecurity and childish behavior is showing....

Tell us what quran says which is not revealed by science yet...to fit in words after science has discovered is easy..you can give any meaning to words 'heaven and earth were one' you want. Our glaxey is not the only one there are millions of such glaxies and suns...big bang is the theory of of birth of our universe, we can't prove that it is 100% true....it is just a theory can easily be discarded if some other more satisfactory answer will be found.

P.S.Most of us have read Koran, it is on the internet and URL was provided by your brothers (Bismisslah.com) on this forum....you can read it too if you want to.

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Rani please post your post again with complete on what I was refering to. DO NOT TAKE PART OF WHAT I POSTED JUST TO MAKE YOUR SELF LOOK RIGHT AND INNOCENT!

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Here let help you.

**"Banta sahib posted this in other thread:

“find is that in Hinduism it is up to the induvidual to decide, how far he wants to follow his religion, where as in Islam it is other people’s business.
There is no freedom of choice in Islam”

That is most ignorent, more biased, comment I have heard on Islam so far. Do you have any knowledge of Islam sir? Any basice knowledge? Ever read quran?" **

He made that comment out of ignorence, without any knowledge of Islam.

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Watcher,

I am sorry I don't have that much time.....you can bash hinduism alone to satisfy your insecurity about your own religion.....

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HUH? WHERE DID I BASH HINDUISM? ALL I DID IS LIST YOUR BELIEFS, are you so ashamed of your own beliefs that you do not want me to post them?

You have time to corrupt the writings of others, but you do not have time to face the charges.

Where did i bash hinduism, anyone? When its time for you to admit something, when it is time for you to acknowledge someethign that you did wrong you make lame excuse and call it bashing? That is not very bright.

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Watcher

"find is that in Hinduism it is up to the induvidual to decide, how far he wants to follow his religion, where as in Islam it is other people's business.

There is no freedom of choice in Islam" >>>>>

That above comment I made has got nothing to do with me having read the quran. It is merely stating a fact about the attitdes of followers of the differant religions.

If a muslim does not regularly pray or does not observe Ramadan his life is made difficult by the nears and dears

When he goes to the casino or go out for a drink he is always looking over his shoulder, in case somebody is watching him.

Therefore, you have to agree with me that amongst muslims an individual has to be very careful when doing things which are considered anti Islam, as he can be boycotted by his circle.

He has to be very foolish to say to his friends and his family that he does not believe in Islam or in God.

On the other hand, a hindu or a sikh does not have to worry about anybody if prays or not fasts or not, drinks or not, gambles or not, eat meat or not.

How far one wants to follow his relgion is considered to be his own choice. A hindu or a sikh can quite freely announce to his family and friends that he does not believe in religion or in God.

I can assure you that his respect will be no less than it was before.

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Lemme summarize the discussion so far.

Religion of my parents is good.

Religion of ur parents is stupid.

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well done ullu, like all other ullus you are a wise one too.