"There will arise in the world a Buddha named Maitreya (the benevolent one) a holy one, a supreme one, an enlightened one, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe:
“What he has realized by his own supernatural knowledge he will publish to this universe. He will preach his religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at its climax, glorious at the goal, in the spirit and the letter. He will proclaim a religious life, wholly perfect and thoroughly pure; even as I now preach my religion and a like life do proclaim. He will keep up the society of monks numbering many thousands, even as now I keep up a society of monks numbering many hundreds”.
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Do you guys really believe this or just want non-muslims to believe in this?
^Doesnt mind, for the Muslims but we want the non-muslims to believe this. Well does all this things matter to us. When Allaah in the holy Quran is told that our Prophet is of exalted character.
After Allaah praising the Prophet, it hardly matters if any human writes tons and tons of stuff to Praise the Prophet. either for the Muslims to believe or non-muslims.
Well singh whats your take on this do you believe.
Even if i consider Prophet is Buddha nauzbillaah, the time difference between Buddha and Prophet is huge and its just a futile arguement.
...what kind of logic is this?.....nobody will preach anything to others which he himself is not sure about it. there are many analogies(so called) are drawn to prove this.
Tell me if we believe this or do not believe this will it anyways affect our faith no way for a muslim no way. For non-muslims yes for sure, it may provide them with some thinking but Muslims Quran is a enough of a Proof that Prophet is of exalted character as told by Allaah and Allaah is also told Propeht is the best worshipper of Allaah in the Quran and Allaah is given beautiful names to the Prophet.
Now do you want me to say believe in that stuff, which is not been provided as a reference in Quran and Hadith which is irrelevant. I believe the name of Prophet and its coming, the character in Torah and Bible coz Allaahis mentioned in the Quran that Prophets name as Ahmad was mentioned in those books, other things just into recycle bin.
For me to believe the benchmark is whether is it the Book of Allaah, it just makesme feel nice that it given in other religious books but to believe no way. If this was the case it should have been mentioned in Quran or Ahadith,which i find no references.
there are preditions like that in almost every other holy scripture of coming of a new prophet.hows that prediction validated when the new prophet is coming to preach something contradictory to what the prohet before him preached.islam rejects budhism concepts of karma and dharma ,it doesnt make sense for a budhist prophet to be predicting coming of a prohet whos going to contradict him.
I am modifying your last sentence. It doesn't make sense for a 'muslim' (not buddhist) to say that muhammad is maitreya as what all islam preaches is contradictory to what buddhism preaches!
^it does'nt make sense for either of them to be saying that because their religions contradict each other.Here the scripture is obviously talking of coming of a true prophet not a false one.in old and new testament if theres a prediction like that muslims can argue those books have been changed as it is mentioned in quran.but theres no mention of budhist religion in quran as far as i know or budha and quran doesn't claim budhia was teaching something other than karma and dharma
Ask them and not us. Ask them why they believe in this, probably for the non muslims to realise here is a scripture which state of a forth coming Prophet and hence your religion will be complete and achieve salvation as this is a true Prophet and who wil come down with the religion of Allaah and decreed laws of Allaah.
But I feel in our time its gone overboard, as these scriptures were notknown publicly before and only some esoterics used them, but it no more isolated in today's world.
Them???....are they not part of ummah??.....you should be answerable to their theories as they are part of ummah!. and whether any religion is complete or not, even your religion tells that Imam mahdi will come to set muslims straight!...and hence your religion has gone off track or is incomplete...
Evidence please, can you please provide me with evidence, I wanna see which Muslim is told this:D want evidence of Imam Mehdi(Well there is an authentic Prophetic saying that every 100 years a reformist will come who will follow the Quran and Sunnah, so that the religionof Allaah is on track and btw, that individual follows not anything more then Quran and sunnah this does not imply religion is complete it implies to follow the true path of Islam and wont create anything new other than Quran and Sunnah) Well they are lots who have claimed to be Imam Mehdi but are far away from followig Quran and Sunnah.
Shall i give a list of sects who are Muslims but are far away from following the true way of Islam, and one more thing if they deviate from the true path or we answerable to them or they are answerable to the Almighty Allaah.
Btw, its just put up for the Non muslims to believe its not for the Musims to believe and act on it, if you feel what I say is wrong then do correct me for the Muslims the benchmark is the Quran period.
besides, this was exactly my reaction and many other buddhists reaction when it was mentioned that muhammad is buddha. Only thing is replace 'muslim' with buddhist
No no. The question is "Was buddha really a muslim"? (the term "muslim" here being used as a true believer, which could be applied to anyone who believes in God, and other basic monotheistic beliefs ex. Jesus was a muslim).