Category: General

Disbeliever

Lets consider the definition of disbeliever and their treatment.
Islam does not draw a sharp line between belief in God and belief in Islam. Many people are confused over the meaning of disbeliever as anyone who is not Muslim.

Hindu says anyone who does not believe in any form of God is atheist. At one point Hindu philosophy says that no one can be disbeliever or atheist arguing ‘As everyone seeks happiness, everyone accepts presence of happiness and hence that of God given that God and happiness are synonyms.’

Infinity cannot be limited yet Islam impose some limitations on God like ‘God cannot be in any visible form’. In fact God is all powerful and when powerless soul can assume form, it would be irony to conceive that God cannot assume any form. It is agreeable that God does not have any form as stated in Islam but that is only one of the infinite options. It does not mean that God cannot exist by any other form.

The treatment of disbeliever: Islam almost advises killings of disbelievers and whole terrorism is its outcome. Hindu says disbelievers should be ignored. The reason is mind is attached by both the ways. Love and hatred, Friendship and enmity. Detachment is must to seek God. Thus you will never succeed in pleasing God by killing others out of hatred. Hence no religious support for Terrorism.

Of course you have right to defend. Killings in such cases and in war and killing as a punishment is allowed but in case such killing is ordered on false pretext, there would severe divine punishment as murder is considered as one of five great sins. When Karn said to Krishn, ‘It is injustice to kill me as I am not having weapon in my hand.’ Krishn replied, ‘It is justice to kill perpetrator of injustice through unjustified manner.’ Lets us take a look where you would end up.

Rebirth

In order to decide whether re-birth exists or not we need to consider two aspects.
One related to God and the other related to the modern science which says there is no need of such personality Lets first consider aspects related to God.
God has innumerable powers and attributes. This imparts him unique character. There is no one equal to him or superior to him. Therefore he is the only one of his kind.
The important attributes of God are

  1. Omnipresence – Present everywhere
  2. Omniscient – Knows everything
  3. Omnipotent – All powerful
  4. Replete with infinite happiness, infinite life, infinite knowledge.
    It follows that he cannot make any injustice because no one can deceive him and because he is not in need of anything from anyone or no one can harm him anyway; he treats everyone at par.
    Now, there are a few questions.
  5. Why are some rich other are poor?
  6. Why are some more capable and others less capable?
  7. Why do some get good opportunities and not others?
  8. Why are some Muslims , some Hindu?
  9. Why, Why, Why…..in many areas……
    If you do not consider re-birth , all blame would be on God and he would be seen as
  10. Partial
  11. Unkind
  12. Unjust
    Which is not true.
    And if you consider re-birth, all blame would be on soul.
    What you get is outcome your own doings in earlier lives. Your bad condition implies your being unjust to others in earlier lives. Re-birth explains everything with a simple saying ‘Reap as you Sow.’
    Thus all attributes of God are intact. Now there is question to Islam –
    ‘How are all attributes of God justified given that injustice, atrocities, inequalities, sufferings present in this world?’
    Islam has no answer. Hindu has.

Fallacy of Darwin

One more theoretical base to deny existence of God is Darwin’s theory of evolution. I will highlight its drawbacks:

1. It supposes living individual is comprised only of body, NO MIND, NO DESIRES, NO HAPPINESS, NO FEELINGS. How’s that? Reason: It is based on only physical body structure and nothing else.
All of us believed it??

2. It is based on serialization of of body structure from simple to complex. Great! We have simple iron pin to very complex iron structure. But between pin and complex iron structure, there is no evolution. Both of them have the same origin : earth’s crust. Why then to insist that complex living structures evolved from simpler ones. Why is not possible that they could be originated from same source – God?

3. Darwin says that simpler structure were of earlier age and complex are of later age. Now a days many species are on the verge of becoming extinct and some might have become extinct recently. Say for example Tiger. Imagine a later date after millions of years. Tiger’s fossils would be millions of year old. Then there will be argument that Man of that period evolved from Tiger of today.

4. The argument of fossil age that supports this theory assume that the layers of earth are intact from the beginning of life on the earth. But would Geological upheaval keep these layers intact over billions of years? Impossible!

5. Then is there any animal anywhere near to mankind? No. Mankind is exploring space while monkeys which are nearest to mankind are still exploring forests!! They cant built beautiful houses, they don’t have clothing and they not have even bullock-cart to travel. Why there is such tremendous difference in brain capabilities of mankind on one side and rest animals on the other side? Why there is no gradual evolution of brain capabilities? Drawin has no answer!

Hindu explains God has created or released this world and only mankind has given right to action (Actions that decide your future lives) and therefore the corresponding brain capabilities. Other species don’t have right to action. They are there to bear the outcomes of the actions performed in human form. And hence no brain capabilities.