Krishna as a Prophet for Muslims?

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RSS to Muslims: Treat Krishna as a Prophet

 

 

New Delhi, April 11: The RSS chief K.S. Sudarshan has asked Muslims

to regard Lord Krishna "as one of the prophets." The RSS chief

argued that "since Allah delivered the verses of the Quran, Lord

Krishna delivered the message of the Gita, therefore Krishna may be

regarded as one of the prophets, if not as God by the Muslims, as

Prophet Mohammed had said that prophets were sent to every place."

The RSS mouthpiece Organiser has, in its latest issue, published a

speech of Mr Sudarshan, delivered at a meeting of the Sarvapanth

Samadar Manch, an affiliate of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, in Ajmer.

 

Toeing the RSS line, Maulana Jamir Ahmed Ilyasi, president of the

All-India Imams' Organisation, praised the outfit and stressed on

the need to "teach Sanskrit in madrasas" and felt that "non-Muslims

should try to learn about Islam." It can be mentioned that in the

ongoing centenary celebrations of RSS ideologue Guru Golwalkar, the

outfit is trying to "bring both communities together to make a

strong India." Rajasthan education minister Vasudev Devnani who was

present on the occasion, announced that the state was all set to

bring forward a Religious Freedom Bill in the forthcoming Assembly

session.

 

In his so-called attempt to breach the gap between the majority and

the minority communities, the RSS chief claimed that "when God

decides birth, he also decides ancestors." He then asked that all

those living in a particular country should "die" for that

country. "We should die for the land where we live," he was quoted

as saying in Organiser.

 

The RSS chief pointed out that "all the 73 sub-communities of

Muslims live peacefully in India," and said that India's

Muslims "should ask their `brethren' why the Muslims in Iraq, Iran

and Kuwait were fighting." The RSS chief said Prophet

Mohammed "should be recognised as the social reformer of that time

since he played various roles in his life and gave direction to Arab

society." Mr Sudarshan added: "When a religion is used as a

political weapon, most of its qualities do not get expressed. This

is what happened with Islam."

 

Maulana Jamir was quoted saying that "misconceptions were being

spread about the RSS by some vested interests." According to

him, "the Sangh and its chief really want to unite the whole

country." Mufti Sher Mohammed Khan, an Islamic scholar of Jodhpur,

claimed that the RSS has identified the "real disease of society and

started its proper treatment."

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