Re: Eeshwar Allah tero naam
That analogy is fine, except that the use of "khuda" by zoroastrians is gone down considerably ... given that most zoroastrians converted out of their religion. A very small community is left in comparison to what once was.
Whereas, hindus have not been mostly converted to Islam - hindus form a majority population on the subcontinent. Therefore, the term "Bhagwan" is not falling out of use with the hindu-based meaning. "Khuda" on the other hand has fallen out of use. The term "God" is based out of Abrahamic traditions, and we believe in the same prophets for the most part. And "Allah" simply means God. The trinity belief is a belief that has become integrated into Christianity much recently, otherwise in the Prophet's time, the flavor of the religion was still quite monotheistic. Even today, scholars are switching out of referring to Christianity as a monotheistic religion, since the trinity doesn't fall into the df of a monotheistic religion.
And lets not forget our closest brethren in religion - the Jews - they use the term God as well and that too in a monotheistic sense.
Fact of the matter is this slogan has been heavily used politically against the the idea of a separate nation for muslims (i.e. Pakistan). The idea is that if muslims start thinking that Hindus worship the same God, then we'll give up on the idea of Pakistan. I see it more as a political manipulation tool more than anything else. Otherwise, you'd see more hindus referring to "Bhagwan" as "Allah", which they wont do unless put into a quasi-political situation, like a muslim singer and a hindu singer singing together (just an example).
Can someone look up where and when this bhajjan exactly originated?
You can say that you believe in one God all you want, but the presence of other Gods in your tradition and in your religious books says otherwise. Muslims believe in One God who shares no power with any other individual entity, whereas hindus simply don't believe that.
No Queer, I perfectly understand. You can come up with a counterargument when you are ready.