Rani,
thank you for your long article which is a second hand view of what Guru Nanak might have thought.
Anyway, your original comments which were that Islam had taken India to the Dark Ages still haven't been addressed. Sikhism came after the arrival of Islam in India so once again your post is not really relevant to this topic. To prove your point you have to show that before Islam there was a period of enlightenment which Islam extinguished. At this time, there was no Sikhism remember. That's why I specifically said ;
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please be fair and keep everything in context as regards time, dates etc.
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Yet you go on to provide a rambling post about the time of Guru Nanak despite this post being titled 'Basic beliefs of Hinduism and Islam'.
Rani, you said:
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You got to be kidding....they took us back to dark ages...with women locked up in the house, music and culture all defined as evil and ungodly. Even now we are facing the problems created by 'Abrahamical religions' which have no concept of universality. Guru nanak preached universality and equality of all human beings regardless of their religion which is absolutely opposite of what Abrahamical religions preach.
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This means that at the time of Islam arriving in India there was a period of enlightenment and Islam brought Dark Ages in it's place. Bearing in mind the state of low caste Shudras who were punished with hot oil poured into their mouths, women who were considered as 'evil in nature', can you justify your statement?
Without jumping four centuries into the future to prove your point?