Sunday, August 28, 2016

Dogs of Arabs – 11

Continued from the previous post –
Differences in the two religions - 2
Islam believes that to please Allah the follower shall pray five times a day. Sufism does not believe in prayers to please Khudaa, to please Khudaa seeker shall purify his/her mind of sinful thoughts, pray or no pray. Sufism prefers meditation and not prayer. However, there are singing practices in them where they sing in praise of their Guru by calling him Maula or malik. This is similar to Hindu Bhakti cult. This is a very important difference in these two faiths, in Islam singing and playing musical instruments is not permitted. In Sufi faith, singing and playing musical instruments is a very important part in the prayer practices. Islam condemns any type of dance plays while praying for Allah. In Sufi faith, singing along with dancing is permitted and appreciated. That is why we have to admit that they are not one religion or any one part of the other. All claims to say that Sufism is an Islamic practice is nothing short of blasphemy. Making a lot of clamor while praying is not condemned by the Sufi followers but Islamic followers consider that sacrilege. In many such practices, we see there is so much difference in them that to claim that they are one religion is outrageous. However, some times Muslim clergy want to consider that way because in Hindustan faithful are more inclined to all the Sufi practices and to oppose that will amount to losing hold on them. Nevertheless, when we see history of relationship in these two faiths we see many incidences where Sufi saints were killed by fanatic Muslim followers because of there adamant style to claim that Khudaa is above Allah.

Five pillars of Islam
  1. Testimony - The Shahadah, To believe in Allah and only Allah and nothing but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger and only Mohammad one can pray for pleading and no other.
  2. Prayer – Salah, to pray for five times in the day
  3. Fast – Sawm, to fast for one month of Ramadan during day
  4. Alms giving - Zakat and Sadaqah, to donate in the name of Allah to poor people is Zakat but if someone wants to give more than that it is called Sadaqah.
  5. Pilgrimage – Hajj and Umrah, to visit Mecca and Medina.

Out of these five pillars excepting the first one The Shahadah, all four were in vogue in the original Arabic religion, which prevailed before Mohammad introduced his Islam and his new god Allah. That is why many scholars insist that Islam is an extension of the original Arab religion and that is why Mohammad's order that Islam is only for Arabs becomes clear. Mohammad always insisted to all those who approached him to be converted to Islam; who were not Arabs that they must stay in their original religion and should not sway to other religion. Mohammad always told that God has created different religions for each human society and that human society must follow that religion and shall not forget that and go to any other religion. This shows that conversion of non-Arabs was against the order of the Prophet Mohammad and therefore blasphemy. However, during Omayyad period conversion was encouraged only for political gains that was against the order of Mohammad and so blasphemy.  

All festivals of Islam were practiced by Arabs even in pre-Islamic times. Fasting during Ramdan month was also practiced by ancient Arabs. The only difference Mohammad introduced was that in place of God Hubal, he declared Allah, the new god of Arabs. Before that declaration, Allah was adjective of lord Hubal. Allah means highest God or as we, Hindus call it, Mahadev. We should also note that Mohammad belongs to the Hanif tribe who were priests in the earlier Arabic religion. We should also note that Mohammad and his family were chief priests of temple of Mecca. All these things explain the reason why Mohammad insisted that Islam is only for Arabs and not for anybody else. As for pilgrimage, ancient Arabs were making pilgrimage to many different places in Arabia but after introduction of Islam all those pilgrimages, to other than Mecca were made redundant. Style of praying called Namaz also existed before Mohammad introduced Islam that means, excepting a few changes all so-called Islamic practices existed I the earlier Arabic religion.

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