My Dear Friend,
I once again invite you to the true path of life with
the beautiful verse of Holy Quran:
And the man who believed said: "O my people!
Follow me; I will guide you to the way of Right
conduct. O my people! The Life of this World is but
a (quick passing) enjoyment, and verily, the
Hereafter, which is the Home that will remain
forever. Whosoever does an evil deed, will not be
requited except the like thereof, and whosoever
does a righteous deed, whether male or female,
and whosoever is a true believer, such will enter
Paradise, where they will be provided without
limit.
And O my people! How is it that I call you to
salvation while you call me to the Fire. You invite
me to disbelieve in Allah, and to join partners in
worship with Him, of which I have no knowledge,
And I call you to the All Mighty, the Oft-Forgiving.
No doubt, you call me to (worship) one who
cannot grant (me) my request in this world or in
the Hereafter. And our return will be to Allah. And
the transgressors, they shall be the dwellers of the
Fire! And you will remember what I am telling you,
and my affair I leave it to Allah. Verily, Allah is the
All-Seer of (His) slaves.
The Hindu scriptures also preached 'ONE GOD'
Hinduism, as most Hindus would say, is not a
religion but a "Dharma" and a Culture. The Vedas, the
Upanishads, the Puranas, the Brahmanas Granth are
considered to be the Holy Scriptures, most sacred being
the Vedas. Also there is the Bhagavad Gita, the
Mahabharata and the Ramayana.
The degeneration and downfall of any society starts
with becoming heedless to the guidance of God and
falling prey to our own whims and desires. This eventually
may lead to the degeneration of the concept of God itself.
The worship of innumerable Gods in Hindu society is a
degeneration of the message of God and in stark contrast
to the oneness of God preached in the Hindu Holy
Scriptures Vedas and Upanishads. The Verses from these
scriptures reveal that they also preach Oneness of God,
which is exactly the same truth, which was conveyed by
God through His final messenger Muhammad (Peace Be
upon Him).
• "There is only one God, worship Him" (Rig
Veda, Vol. 6, Hymn 45 Vs 16)
• "Do not worship any one beside Him" (Rig
Veda Bk. 8, Hymn 1, Vs 1)
• "God is only one, - not a second"- (Chandogya
Upanishad Ch. 6, Section 2, verse 1).
• "Na tasya pratima asti" There is no image of
Him."
I thus invite our brethren to return to the worship
of the One true God as reminded to us by God through
His last and final messenger Muhammad (PBUH16).
The worst wrongdoing which we humans can
commit is to say that the Almighty God has other gods as
partners. Proclaiming that there is no god besides the
One God of all is what God wants to hear from us in
words and deeds. One must be honest and just to oneself
and those around us and walk on the right path.
The religion of the 'surrender to the one true God' -
Islam, is the only path which God has chosen for mankind
and is thus the only way to achieve brotherhood and
unification and for our salvation in the everlasting life
after death. Worshipping others besides God does not
please God; rather it is an act of disobedience to God and
a sign of arrogance. By accepting this call of Islam, our
Hindu brethren will only be returning to God's original
religion for humanity, as we understand was also the
original call of the Hindu dharma.
A study of the Vedas clearly reveals the message of
Unity of God. But Hindus of today worship a number of
Gods or incarnations, which is contrary to the Vedic
teachings that teaches Oneness of God. Infact, it is very
easy to observe that the varied forms in which Hindus
worship God are nothing but the different "attributes" of
The God mentioned in the Qur’an.
Come! Let us reason together
Mahatma Gandhi, in his inimitable style, says
"Some one has said that Europeans in South Africa dread
the advent of Islam- Islam that civilized Spain, Islam that
took the torch light to Morocco and preached to the
world the Gospel of brotherhood. The Europeans of South
Africa dread the Advent of Islam. They may claim equality
with the white races. They may well dread it, if
brotherhood is a sin. If it is equality of colored races then
their dread is well founded."
• Hinduism has the world's third largest following
after Christianity and Islam. It is more
important for me because I belong to the
country to which the religion belongs a
majority of its followers. Hinduism today is
more about Indian-ness than anything else. It is
considered as the oldest religion/culture in the
world with majority of its followers in India.
Muslims are the biggest minority community in
India comprising 12-15%
• Islam, on the other hand, never confined itself
or claimed monopoly over a particular region
or people, but from the start it had a universal
message and appealed to all humanity as one
single community. Today, there are over 1.2
billion Muslims around the World and contrary
to popular understanding the majority of the
Muslims are of non-Arab origin. Islam is an open invitation to all humanity from God not
just towards personal spirituality but also to
the practical mission of upholding truth and
justice, the purest truth of which is that
'THERE IS NO GOD BESIDES THE ONE TRUE
GOD'. This core idea is the fountainhead of
our success in this life and in the everlasting
life after death and it has remained the
message of God to humanity throughout our
existence.
