Reincarnation

Assalamualaikum fellow brothers and sisters,

I would like to ask the Muslims, what do you think of Hindu's concept of reincarnation? My best friend is a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement. I had a talk with him regarding this and he told me that our belief of rebirth is illogical. He do not see the logic in living, then die and brought back to live again. I told him that I respect his belief but I reject it.

I told him since the concept of reincarnation is doing good deeds and from my understanding, the best form to reincarnate into is a to be a human being. Now, we all know human population is increasing, and the sins of the world is increasing too. How does this concept hold any truth now? But my best friend explains to me that if we dig our hands into the sand and pull it out, we can find many insects and he believed there are plenty of ants around. I agree. But in my mind I was thinking, isn't the whole animal kingdom decreasing? If not, why is there conservation efforts to retain all the animals? It is proven that the animal kingdom is decreasing due to habitat destruction, over-fishing and many other factors. He also points out that if God is merciful why are there people born with disabilities?

Now again the number of people with disability is on the decline, some facts I got from a news article here. So how does the concept of samsara or reincarnation holds any truth? The facts of the world does not support it. I lastly asked my best friend, when will the cycle stop? He answered that when the individual submits to God. So what I'm thinking is from my point of view, only humans have free will. Once you lead a bad life here and reincarnate to be an animal, wouldn't that cycle stop since the whole of nature submits to the will of God?

I do not want to offend my best friend cause he is a good guy, and neither do I want to offend any Hindu brothers here. I just want to hear what are your logical thoughts about reincarnation.

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