ISLAM AND HINDUISM: Similarity of the two divine messages

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Note: this is one for the readers and link-clickers and thinkers only. :)


Research shows the distinct probability of Hindus being the lost ummah (people) of Prophet Noah, and thus one of the four major Ahl-e-Kitab (people bearing revealed books), communities that the Koran mentions repeatedly...intellectual confirmation of what Muslims have known intuitively for centuries. It also satisfies the students of comparative religion who have been amazed to find passages in the Vedas, Puranas, the Holy Koran, the Hadees and the Old and New Testaments that correspond to each other almost word for word.

Beginning with the term employed to describe themselves, dharma and deen (both meaning ways of life), and an emphatic assertion of the oneness of God (Ekam sat: la llaha lllallah), Islam and Hinduism share the vision of a moral order prevailing in the universe.

In a manner reminiscent of the Hindu guidance on social relations, the Koran, too, outlines essential components of relationships between people. These include respect, kindness, honesty, tolerance, self-restraint, patience, forgiveness and compassion. Such virtues apply between parents and children, spouses, business partners, neighbors and friends, regardless of gender..

he Hindu belief in reincarnation is well known. But it is not known that the Koran refers as kafir (deviant) anyone who doesn't believe in the possibility of rebirth. Not many in India have perhaps come across the verses of the great mystic, Hazrat Jalal-ud-Deen Rumi, describing the process of evolution through reincarnation - from mineral and plant to animal and man and then to angelhood and beyond...

Tariq and other critics seem to be confusing reincarnation with transmigration of souls, which are not necessarily the same concepts..

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EL25Aa02.html

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1. Thank you for posting this thoughtful piece with interesting links

Rumi translations: http://www.rumionfire.com/shams/index.htm

[papau]

2. reincarnation is also a belief of many Christians and Jews - and who

has the right to say they are not Christian or Jew because of this belief?

But the Asian Times writer does not note that those that think they have such a right in Islam, Judaism , and Christianity - all reject reincarnation.