Guest guest Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 THE CONCEPTS WHICH ARE COMMON AMOUNG MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS AND HINDUS Concept of one God alone, and indications about coming of prophet Muhammad (pbuh) are commonly mentioned in the Muslim's, Christian's and Hindu's Scriptures. WORSHIP OF ONE GOD " ALONE " . -- Qur'an: " Say: He is Allah, The One and Only.Allah, the Eternal, Absolute.He begets not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him. " [Al-Qur'an 112:1-4] -- Bible: " Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord. " [The Bible, Mark 12:29][The Bible, Deuteronomy 6:4] -- Bible: " I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. " [The Bible, Isaiah 43:11] -- Bible: " I am Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me. " [The Bible, Isaiah 45:5] -- Bible: " I am the Lord, and there is no other " [isaiah 45:18] -- Bible: " I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. " [isaiah 42:8] -- Hindu Scriptures. " I am the goal of life, the LORD and support of all, the inner witness, the abode of all. I am the only refuge, the ONE true friend; I am the beginning, the staying, and the end of creation; I am the womb and the eternal seed. I am heat; I give and withhold the rain. I am immortality and I am death; I am what is and what is not " [bhagavad Gita 9:18-19] -- Hindu Scriptures. " O friends, do not worship anybody but Him, the Divine One. Praise Him alone. " [Rigveda 8:1:1] -- Hindu Scriptures: " He is One only without a second. " [Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1] -- Hindu Scriptures: " There is only one God, not the second; not at all, not at all, not in the least bit. " [brahma Sutra] GOD IS UNSEEN, WITHOUT VISION AND WITHOUT ANY LIKNESS -- Qur'an: " No vision can grasp Him But His grasp is over All vision: He is Above all comprehension, Yet is acquainted with all things. " [Al-Qur'an 6:103] -- Qur'an: " There is nothing whatever like unto Him. " [Al-Qur'an 42:11] -- Bible: " I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me. " [The Bible, Isaiah 46:9] -- Hindu Scriptures: " There is no likeness of Him. " [svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19] -- Hindu Scriptures: " His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye. " [svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20] -- Hindu Scriptures: " That which cannot be seen by the eyes, but by which the eyes see, [Kena Upanishad] -- Hindu Scriptures: " The Formless Supreme Spirit that pervades the universe can have no material representation, likeness or image. " -- (Yajur Veda 32:3.) -- Hindu Scriptures: " He is bodiless and pure. " [Yajurveda 40:8] DISBELIEVERS WHO ARE DEAF, DUMB, BLIND PEOPLE -- Qur'an: " Deaf, dumb, and blind,They will not return (to the path). " [Al-Qur'an 2:18] -- Bible: " Seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. " [The Bible, Matthew 13:13] -- Hindu Scriptures: " There maybe someone who sees the words and yet indeed does not see them; may be another one who hears these words but indeed does not hear them. " [Rigveda 10:71:4] ABOUT SHRIK -- Qur'an: " Allah forgives not (The sin of) joining other gods With Him; but He forgives Whom He pleases other sins Than this: one who joins Other gods with Allah, Has strayed far, far away (From the Right). " [4:116] -- Qur'an: " " They do blaspheme who say:'Allah is Christ the son Of Mary.' But said Christ: 'O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord And your Lord'. Whoever joins other gods with Allah - Allah will forbid him the Garden, and the Fire Will be his abode. There will for the wrongdoers Be no one to help. " [5:72] -- Qur'an: " We sent a Messenger to every nation, sayings worship Allah and avoid the idols. Amongst them were some whom Allah guided, and some justly disposed to error,.Travel in the land and see what was the end of those belied ( the revelation and the Prophets ) " [16:36] -- Bible: " And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcass upon the carcass of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. " [Leviticus 26:30] -- Bible: " Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. " [The Bible, Exodus 20:3-5] [The Bible, Deuteronomy 5:7-9] -- Hindu Scriptures: Of Him there are neither parents nor lord. " [svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9] -- Hindu Scriptures: " They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, but those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time " (Yajur Veda 40:9.) -- Hindu Scriptures: " Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures. " [bhagavad Gita 7:20] http://www.understanding-islam.com/related/text.asp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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