THE GLORIOUS QUR’AN ON HINDUS ALLAH’S ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE COMMANDMENTS REGARDING MEMBERS OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST FAITH BY PANDIT GAGA BHATT
THE GLORIOUS QUR’AN
ON HINDUSALLAH’S ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE COMMANDMENTS
REGARDING MEMBERS OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST FAITH
BY PANDIT GAGA BHATT
Introduction
To be a true Muslim one must believe in three things:—
1. The unity, supremacy and uniqueness of Allah — the one and only god.2. That Muhammad was his Ainal messenger and the best role-‐model for mankind.3. In the revelation of Allah — the Qur’an which is the eternal and unalterable Ainal
message of Allah to all humankind.
Hindus raised with the concept of ahimsa (non-‐violence) being the highest form of religion naturally assume that all religions ascribe to the same values of universal peace, well-‐being, compassion, kindness, harmony, tolerance etc. When the faithful of other religions deviate from these universal humanistic principles the “politically correct” brush them off as “the fanatical minority”. As citizens of a multi-‐cultural society it is important for us to know what the other communities think of us or what their sacred scriptures say. Now it is also true that the vast majority of believers of any religion have not read or seriously studied their own scriptures and live good and peaceful lives in spite of what they are told to believe and do. This being so here are a few select verses from the Qur’an in which the omnipotent and omniscient Supreme Being called Allah gives detailed teaching and directives to believers regarding those who reject Islam and it’s wholesome and beneAicial message. There are many hateful verses in the Quran speciAically aimed at Jews and Christians but here I’m giving only those which have been used speciAically against Hindus (polytheists).The ‘moderate’ Muslims will argue that the polytheists referred to are those pre-‐Islamic Arabs that were resisting Muhammad’s socio-‐political reforms and not the Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists of today. But this is a dissemblance because if one accepts the Quran as being the Ainal testimony and commandants of an omniscient God then the message must be valid in all it’s parts for eternity. Otherwise it is just another historical document, parts of which are no longer relevant and therefore NOT the Ainal message of Allah.History proves that the Muslim scholars have considered that the injunctions to kill and forcibly convert Hindus was and is still valid. During the nearly 1000 years that Muslims ruled much of India, hundreds and thousands of temples were destroyed, it is estimated that upwards of 50,000,000 people were slaughtered, millions more (women and children) sold into slavery, and whole provinces converted by force — all those of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangla-‐desh etc.The Bali-‐bombings in which 202 people died and a further 240 were injured was as much about the Balinese Hindus as it was about foreigners.Even today the Hindus of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan are gradually being either driven out, forced to convert or exterminated . The injunctions apparently are still valid and honest Imams will certainly conAirm this!
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The Quran is a clear revelation of Allah’s guidance, and should be accepted as it is, rejection is punished by eternal torment.
Any repudiation of it’s verses merits a horrible punishment.
Hinduism is unacceptable as a religion.
Hindus are the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah
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Hindus are accursed.
Muslims should never obey Hindus (which makes management an extremely difficult task!) … and they should be bashed with the Koran.
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Hindus are unclean.
ALL Hindus are going to hell to burn for eternity regardless of their virtue.
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Even the good deeds of Hindus are worthless like mirages in a desert.
Hindus will experience only failure and Muslims success. (This holy truth doesn’t seem to have materialized as the majority of Muslims are living in poverty and ignorance. Pakistan and Afghanistan are failed states!)
The teachings of Hinduism lead to darkness (ignorance) and eternal damnation.
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The Vedas, Upanishads, Gita, Ramayana etc. teach only lies regardless of the fact that there are objective, verifiable truths contained in every Scripture.
Hindus believe in superstition and false idols.
Hindus worship not God but the Devil.
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The worst and most unforgivable of all sins is any deviation from strict monotheism
Hindus should be mercilessly slaughtered until polytheism is eradicated.
Allah orders Muslims to kill the disbelievers (the word used is not fight but rather “kill” qatal) "until there is no more Fitnah." According to Ibn Abbas and others, "Fitnah" means polytheism, "And religion (worship), is for Allah" meaning Allah's religion should stand supreme and overshadowing the rest of the religions.
In the Sahihayn, it is reported that the Prophet said: "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight the people till they say: "None has the right to be worshipped by Allah, and whoever says it will save his life and property from me except on breaking the law (rights and conditions for which he will be punished justly), and his accounts will be with Allah"".
Tafsir (commentary) of Ibn Kathir, op cit, page 117, 11
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The injunction here again is qatal which means to kill or to wage a bloody conflict with the enemy (Hindus) until idolatry (fitnah) is extirpated and only the religion of Islam is triumphant. The term fitnah also means any resistance to the spread of Islam.
Taghut is translated as idols
Hindus must be slaughtered unless they convert. Thus we see that in Islam conversion (or ‘reversion’ as the Islamists say) is not a matter of personal conviction but formally subscribing to a social-political system i.e. joining the “Party-of-God.”
And those Muslims who fight and kill the Hindus for the sake of the spread of Islam are blessed and will be well-rewarded by the compassionate and omniscient Allah.
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Hindus who are not killed can be ransomed
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On the other hand if Hindus agree to live submissively under Islamic rule they can pay a poll-tax (jizyah) and accept humiliation at the hands of believers.
Actually the privilege of living as subjugated second-class citizens (dhimmis) who pay a monthly poll-tax (jizyah) as protection money was granted only to the “people of the book” i.e. Christians and Jews. The Hanafiyah school of Sharia jurisprudence which operated in India was unique out of the four schools as being the only one which granted dimmi status to Hindus. The others believed all polytheists should be forcibly converted or exterminated without compromise or mercy.
Muslims should never take Hindus as friends because they will corrupt the pure and righteous believers.
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Muslims should never marry Hindus — unless they convert.
Righteous Muslims should even fight with, and be harsh to their Hindu neighbors
Seeing that all Hindus are destined for hell anyway there is no need to be courteous and kind to them on the way!
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Muslims must be compassionate to other Muslims but merciless to Hindus.13