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GOD is one
Dont trust allah completelyOne day Allah's Messenger, sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam, noticed aBedouin leaving his camel without tying it. He asked theBedouin, "Why don't you tie down your camel?" The Bedouin answered, "I placed my trust in Allah." At that, the Prophet, sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said, "Tieyour camel and place your trust in Allah" - Tirmidhi post scrap cancel

Why did Mohammad advise the Bedouin not to have total faith in Allah vis-a-vis the camel? Actually Mohammad prevented the Bedouin from becoming a self-realised man by asking him not to have total faith in God. So instead of becoming a spiritual person, by following Mohammad he would have become a man for whom Islam is nothing more than an identity tag, as it appears to be so for all Muslims. Mohammad obviously was not a Sufi.

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The most popular amongst all the Hindu scriptures is the Bhagavad Gita. Consider the following verse from the Gita:"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]The Gita states that people who are materialistic worship demigods i.e. ‘gods’ besides the True God.

What is meant by demigod is the restriction of God to a source for the fulfillment of material rewards. This is true of Allah too, because Muslims believe that Allah the Creator is separate from His Creation. This separation limits God. This limited Allah then becomes a source for the goodies of Paradise. This is unlike the teaching of Advaita, where the purpose of the seeker is to realize that he is God.

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god is one

Saying God is one is different from saying that there is only one God. God is one means God is one with you. That is, you are God.

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there is no one but him There is no one but him means that we are also Him."Ekam evadvitiyam""He is One only without a second." [Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]1

His is One only without a second is correct. We don’t exist, only He does. Our feeling that we exist is called maya. We have to wake up to the fact that we are Him.

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"Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah.""Of Him there are neither parents nor lord."[Svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9]2

Of Him there are neither parents or lord simply means that we are neither created nor do we create. The creation and destruction is maya, as happens in dreams. The dream is not reality the moment we wake up.

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"Na tasya pratima asti""There is no likeness of Him."[Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19]3

There is no likeness of Him means he is total, one, complete. Advaita. There can be His likeness only when there is something separate from Him.

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The following verses from the Upanishad allude to the inability of man to imagine God in a particular form:"Na samdrse tisthati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam.""His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye."[Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]4

God is the total which includes us also. Just as the eye cannot see the eye, we cannot see ourselves unless there is the other. Hinduism says that the other is not a separate other, but a play of contrasts of the Brahman, the totality. Islam says that there are always two, the Creator and the Created. In this separation, the one sees the other. But the non-separate reality takes on multitude of forms in the drama of existence where the seeing is the seeing of oneself, not the other as seen by the physical eye in our normal existence. The Vedas are talking about our spiritual existence.

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Son of Ex-Muslim don joins RSS..An inspiring story



10:21 am (2 hours ago)
Uncle Sam®™
Son of Ex-Muslim don joins RSS..An inspiring story
Mushtaq,eldest son of ex-don of Ahmedabad Abdul Latif has joined Shakha of RSSMushtaq, the eldest of Latif's six children, has joined a Sangh Parivar outfit in an effort to wipe clean any taint that remains from his father's underworld reign that was at its peak in the 80s. He is one of the 15 members of the national committee of the ‘Rashtravadi Muslim Manch' (RMM), an outfit that approves of the ideology of the RSS. For the last one year, Mushtaq has kept himself busy with programmes of the RMM, the latest being the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of 1857 uprising. Mushtaq is all for banning slaughter of cow progeny and abhors terrorism. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/From_Latifs_family_to_Sangh_Parivar/articleshow/2888699.cms

12:01 pm (27 minutes ago)
BROKEN SPIRITS
Reverting to the True Path!!!

12:28 pm (0 minutes ago)
Venu
Worshiping India and worshiping Allah
The Mullahs have been telling Muslims that singing Vande Mataram is against Islam because only Allah should be worshipped, without understanding that worshiping Allah is a religious act whereas worshiping India is a patriotic act. Just because the word 'worship' may be common to both acts, it need not mean that both acts are similiar. For example, we may say we love our mother and we love our wife but just because the word 'love' is common, does the action implied in both mean exactly the same? Muslims attending RSS shakha would become worshippers of India, no doubt. But they would also realise that worshipping India or singing Vande Mataram does not contradict worshiping Allah. Then the Mullahs’ bluff would be called.

Uncle Sam®™
Very well said Venuji!!Applauds to Venuji!!
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hats off to mushtaq

Anturya
G-d bless Mushtaq!