Do hindus believe in oneness of God too, what are their beliefs and how they differ to Islam?
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hinduism is like a loose collection of belief systems, it can range from nature worship of rigvedic hinduism to idol worship at mainstream temples to monotheism and monism of certain upanishads to atheism/agnosticism of almost all schools of hindu philosophy. islam has a well defined structure and dos and donts, hinduism typically doesnt. it is social norms and mythology and scripture and all that jazz melded into one.
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Peace queer,
As you said hinduism is like a loose collection of belief systems. Is there any holy scriptures of hinusim? Do holy scripture define one or many God(s)?
P.S. If you are not related to hinusim religion than no need to answer. :)
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sure pal. the oldest hindu scriptures are the rig vedas. these are ancient hymns brought to india from central asia by the migrants from the andronovo culture, probably due to migrations from climatic change.
the rig vedas are basically a bunch of prayers to a bunch of different gods. indra being their leader. here’s something from wikipedia
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Peace queer,
Is it oky if i ask question about 'Hinduism'?
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lol sure but other hindus on here might know most of this better than me, so we'll see.
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hinduism is like a loose collection of belief systems, it can range from nature worship of rigvedic hinduism to idol worship at mainstream temples to monotheism and monism of certain upanishads to atheism/agnosticism of almost all schools of hindu philosophy. islam has a well defined structure and dos and donts, hinduism typically doesnt. it is social norms and mythology and scripture and all that jazz melded into one.
what about shaitan, curruption, concept of bad and evil?
is it represented partly or wholly by a god or nature or not recognised at all?
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The Central Asian / Aryan Invasion theory is increasingly being doubted by many archaeologists and historians.
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what about shaitan, curruption, concept of bad and evil? is it represented partly or wholly by a god or nature or not recognised at all?
It is both personified as a devil and as an age. In hinduism there are fore yugas(ages). Satyug,Treta,Dwapar,Kaliyug. The evilness increases as the age advances from one age to another. In satyug there is no evil, In treta evil begins and there is fight between goodness and badness, In dwapar, evil increases so much that even cousins starts fighting over land and other dispute. Age of Kali or Kaliyug is where even brothers fight amongst themselves and evil is maximum, it will end with MahaPralay, similar to Quayamat:) and then agains same age cycle will start.
PS: Kali of Kaliyug is different from hindu deity Maa Kaali:)
The Central Asian / Aryan Invasion theory is increasingly being doubted by many archaeologists and historians.
Whether Aryans invaded or not is doubtful both of the theories are not having sufficient proof to augment their arguments:). Hindu geography in vedic and post vedic literature doesn't know anything beyond HinduKush mountains in west and Sri Lanka in south:). Secondly Aryans are considered illiterate, uncivilized, martial tribe but their coming in the region and suddenly producing huge amount of literature mentioning the above region is paradoxical. Vedas were transferred initially from mouth to mouth from generation to generation before writing was discovered as the age of most primitive of them, RigVeda is also arbitrary set by German Historian Max Muller:)
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In dwapar, evil increases so much that even cousins starts fighting over land and other dispute
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Means Mahabharata happened in dwapar?
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Precisely:k:. the entire story is set in the end of the age of Dwapar and arrival of Bhagwan Krishn, as avatar of Bhagwan Vishnu. After the winner Pandavs leave the earth for heaven giving kingship to Maharaja Pariksith, their grandson, Kaliyug in personified enters his kingdom and the age of Kali begins:)
I think they think kalki will be the avatar of this yug.there are few million years in each yug
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I think they think kalki will be the avatar of this yug.there are few million years in each yug
Yes Kalki is dashmavataar, the last MahaAvtaar of Bhagwan Vishnu:)
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I read some hindu scriptures a few decades back but as english translations and I do not trust translations any more because people who translate scriptural texts ignore their contextual importance.
Hindu scriptures are mostly translated as myths, legends, superstitions which is not true. Others translate them as scriptures according to establishment therefore just a crowd controlling mechanism for some by others. Again very wrong way of looking at scriptures this way.
To study any scripture one has to learn the language of the scripture and must have idea of real word and concepts of various nature eg political, social, cultural and economic, must have ideas about systems , structures, procedures, methods, practices etc.
If one studied hindu scriptures as writings based upon original divine revelations like the quran one will find them very close to the quranic ideology.
The case is very same with torah and other jewish scriptures as well as new testament and rest of christian scriptures.
The quran was likewise derailed from its concepts by parties with conflicting interests.
All scriptures contain true concepts along false ones save the quran because the quran being the original has major advantage. All other religious scriptures are original to some extent and are like hadith books not like the quran. If one reads the bible one will see what I am talking about. Stories in the bible were not revealed by God to bible writers but that they wrote what they heard about those about whom they wrote as they understood it at the time. Just like bukhari and muslim etc.
Hadith books are may be more authentic than these writings because in the hadith books we do have witness based testimonies and even the witnesses are authenticated to some extend which is not the case in case bible and the other holy books. But their contents seem genuine to a great deal and are supported by the quranic text.
Most hindu scriptures are found in english on the following web page. This website also has many other scriptures in english eg parsi, jewish and christian etc scriptures as well as the quran etc.
just as muslims have little idea about what is actually in the quran so followers of other scriptures have very little idea what is in their scriptures. If anyone is really interested in knowing any scripture one must know its language and what it is talking about.
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Well said Mughal1 :k:
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If the aim is to only compare and somehow prove that one religion is better than other, then it can be done even without reading other:D
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If one studied hindu scriptures as writings based upon original divine revelations like the quran one will find them very close to the quranic ideology.
The case is very same with torah and other jewish scriptures as well as new testament and rest of christian scriptures.
this is untrue. hinduism is not a "revealed" faith, it doesn't have prophets. rig-vedic hinduism has close ties with avestan zoroastrianism. before zarathushtra's time though. zero connection with any god of abraham's or of any other tribes of the middle east.
please let hindus define hinduism, i don't come and tell you the kaaba is a shiv lingam, do i?
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Allah says in Quran that he has sent prophets to every nation. So He must have sent prophets to hindus too. You can't say that no prophets were sent to hindus.
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and what is Allah's role in hinduism? thats like saying ayatulqursi is actually a prayer to vishnu.
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If the aim is to only compare and somehow prove that one religion is better than other, then it can be done even without reading other:D
Peace the kaur,
Actually Mughal1 before always post very very long post and don't get in any debate. I wasn't expecting such post from him, he surprised me and to his post i said "well said".
No offense meant at all.