Favourite verse or chapter? (Split thread)

Lajawab · August 28, 2003, 4:45am

*Originally posted by rvikz: *
Hymn of Creation from Rg Veda

 Then even nothingness was not, nor existence.
 There was no air then, nor the heavens beyond it.
 What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping?
 Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed?

 Then there were neither death nor immortality,
 nor was there then the torch of night and day.
 The One breathed windlessly and self-sustaining.
 There was that One then, and there was no other.

 At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness.
 All this was only unillumined water.
 That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing,
 arose at last, born of the power of heat.

 In the beginning desire descended on it -
 that was the primal seed, born of the mind.
 The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom
 know that which is is kin to that which is not.

 And they have stretched their cord across the void,
 and know what was above, and what below.
 Seminal powers made fertile mighty forces.
 Below was strength, and over it was impulse.

 But, after all, who knows, and who can say
 whence it all came, and how creation happened?
 The gods themselves are later than creation,
 so who knows truly whence it has arisen?

 Whence all creation had its origin,
 he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
 he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
 he knows - **or maybe even he does not know.**

Lajawab · August 28, 2003, 6:00am

Aham Sarvasya Prabhavo Mattah :
Sarvam Pravartatey |
Iti Matva Bhajntey Mam
Budha Bhavsamanvitah

English Translation :
I am the source of all Spiritual and Material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly understand this engage themselves in My devotional service and worship Me with all their heart.

This is a text from Bhagvadgita - Chapter 10 Verse 8…

According to a riwaiyyat in Islam, there have been 124,000 Prophets which Allah :swt: sent…But it is surely stated that every nation on Earth has been sent a Messenger and teachings…What makes anyone think that the Hindus were any different…But like other faiths, its followers too distorted its writings…

How do we not know that the Bhagvadgita, or the teachings of Buddha, or Lao-Tze’s teachings were not divinely inspired?

How can we say for sure that the author of the Bhagvadgita, Buddha or Lao-Tze were not Prophets of Allah :swt: who were deified as gods as even some Muslims tried to do with our Prophet :saw:…

If you ascribe the above mentioned verse to Allah :swt: as its source, doesn’t it suit Him perfectly?