Because the concept of idol worship appears difficult for you to grasp, may I try giving an example. By destroying the Quran (as some people propose to burn it on 9/11), is anything substantial destroyed thereby? Or maybe something more than substantial is destroyed thereby – our emotions that go with it. We need the idol and therefore we have made the idol. The idol did not make itself. Just as the Quran in book form.
The power of Shiva is beyond the idol (that is, it is not confined to the idol). Though Allah is not confined in the direction of Mecca, why do Muslims confine their worship of Him in that direction? Is this due to the limitation of Allah or Muslims?
Idols are worshipped in the believe that God is thereby worshipped. Those who do not need idols to worship are not forced to have them. (Islam, for example, does not need these concrete idols.) And then there are those who do not need to worship at all because they have discovered God within them (Islam has not reached this level). Whether the idol represents God or not is the faith or belief of the worshipper, just as Allah is God is the faith of the Muslim worshipper.
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Idol is useful for those who require them. When you worship something that is outside you, that is idol worship. Therefore, Islam is also idol worship.
Whether idol has power or not is a matter of experience. Many people have stated that idols have power. What are we to say of that?
And pray, what is the main thing? What you consider the main thing may not be the main thing for others. Got it?
Hindus believe that God is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. Of these, Muslims only believe that God is Omnipotent and Omniscient but not Omnipresent.
If you used the phrase “your lord” to mean lord of non-Muslims also, I think it is unfair. I for one do not consider Allah, as described in the Quran, as my God or lord.мυѕℓιмαн 4 ℓιfє;1355852 said:
In Hinduism, intention is everything. The merit of an action is considered on the basis of the intention of the doer. For example, I might be seen giving a bar of chocolate to a child and someone, without knowing my true motive, may comment that I have done a good thing. By if my intention was to befriend the child and kidnap him, then the very act of giving the chocolate is bad, let alone my kidnapping the child.
I have not understood this question.
Please explain what you mean by “Basmala” so that I may comment on it.
Your Lord means your creator and therefore the One who deserves worship and fellowship. If you don't believe in Allah or you don't want to worship him he still remains your God or Lord, your vision doesn't change the fact.
Yes I want to know about that too, and I want also to know if there is an opinion about vegetarianism in Hinduism.
The special bond between the cow and the Hindu community goes back to the pastoral days, when cows had a significant role with being the providers of milk, fuel (cow dung), medicines (cow urine) etc. and therefore had a place of fondness in the hearts of the Hindus. Somewhere along the line it became associated with Krishna and Krishna's divinity appears to have rubbed off on the cows and they have since been treated as an auspicious animal. But apart from these aspects (which are by no means insignificant) I do not think other living beings are any less sacred than the cows. It is actually the culture and the nature of Hindus to associate divinity to anything that appears to play a significant role in their lives and they often sanctify such relationships by seeing the object in the nature of Mother. Which is why they call the cow Mother cow, their most sacred river Mother Ganga - why, they even call India Mother India.
That Allah is God is only a belief. It is not a fact, like say the sun or the moon. They (sun and moon) are there whether we accept it or not and their effects are felt by all humans. Please do not assign the position of fact to beliefs.
The majority of Hindus are non-vegetarians. Vegetarianism is followed by many cutting across community lines but there are certain communities among Hindus who are exclusively vegetarian. On auspicious or holy days, most Hindus tend to partake only vegetarian food.
Idols are only a limited representation of the unlimited for the limited mind. When the mind, through spiritual practices moves to unlimitedness, then it no longer requires idols. Do you think Allah is contained or limited to his name Allah?
Hindus do not find it difficult to remake idols that are destroyed. They do it all the time.
The question is, why do you limit God to a direction and worship Him? Similarly, Hindus limit God to a idol and worship Him.
That you worship Allah directly is only a myth. How can you worship Allah if you do not use His name Allah? Allah is only a word, though Muslims believe that He is much much more than a word.
Just like you believe Allah has powers, idol-worshippers believe that their idols have powers - because they believe that that power is not limited to the idol. Can you prove that Allah has power (apart from your belief)?
What makes the moon a fact and Allah not ? because you see it ? What makes you think that everything you see is true i.e a fact, and everything you don't see is not a fact ?
For the vegetarian Hindu communities, what are their reasons for being vegetarian, is that because they feel guilty to kill animals ?
