Sanathana Dharma - will this continue its record of longivity?

[system]

Re: Sanathana Dharma - will this continue its record of longivity?

@calypsodc

I beg to differ. Whoever Imam Mahdi is, he will at most be accepted as a saint by hindus. But worship him as Avatar? A big fat No! Maybe only by people like yourselves with feet in each religion. The scriptures are clear that the Avatar will be God come in human form to lead and teach humans. This is way above and beyond concepts like Acharyas, rishis, Imams and any Prophet. Please stop misleading yourselves and others as for verses on Mohammed in scriptures while you read up on supposed translation do go and look up the original on the web and learn the truth for yourself. The Abrahamic and Dharmic religions are like east and west. They will never meet in most ideologies. It is good to know something that may benefit humanity irrespective of the religion it originates from. But to learn one religions through the tinted glasses of another is a foolish thing. Those who do so, fall victim to conspiracies like “Mohammed in the vedas” and “Kaaba was a hindu temple” etc.

Of course you can differ - everyone has their own opinion. But as you yourself said, ‘the Avatar will be God come in human form to lead and teach humans’ . Then you follow it with but he will not be an Imam, Prophet, Acharya, etc. So are you saying these specific ‘professions’ are excluded for Avatarhood? Surely you don’t mean that?

An Avatar can be any human - an Acharya or an Imam.

My opinion is that Zakir Naik is making a mistake - the Muhammad predicted in the Vedas (if this is indeed so - I am no expert on the Vedas) is not Muhammad the Prophet (pbuh) but Muhammad Al Mahdi, the expected Imam.

But to get back to the topic, Hinduism has survived for so long because it has been willing to accept new teachers (no matter from what background) and their new teachings without destroying older traditions.

Although Muslims are waiting for the Imam Mahdi, they may not be able to accept any new teachings from him, while Hindus will be willing to listen even though he may be a Muslim. So many Muslims may actually reject him (especially if he says all religions are equally valid - which I expect him to do, just like Shirdi SaiBaba did).

That is why Hinduism will continue to survive, while both Islam and Christianity are at risk when a new Teacher appears.