How to refute Buddhism according to Muslims

[Mononoke]

This is funny and pathetic at the same time. More than anything else it shows how much Muslims fear Buddhism and anything else that remotely contradicts their book. We should feel sorry for them and pity them. They are nothing more than slaves to an invisible magic dragon. I guess it invokes pathos.

Sirajstc had posted this on this page:http://www.elakiri.com/forum/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=141.

THE ERROR OF BUDDHISM

[FONT=&quot]Kathmandu ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Ka-Nying Shedrup Ling monastery ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A stifling and gloomy place ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Those who will be participating in this ceremony are young priests ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They are still only children ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And they will spend their lives in the monastery.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Their days will be spent in hunger and poverty ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They will not work. And they will beg for food ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They will have no family lives ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And they will have nothing to wear but these clothes.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And what is more, they will do all this in the name of a superstitious belief, in order not to be reborn as a fly or a mouse ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Because they believe in a religion that is full of superstition and error: Buddhism. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism is such an enormous error that it regards people torturing themselves as a virtue.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]People cut themselves off from life in the name of myth and superstition.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For Buddhists, who spend their days in pointless, irrational rituals, life is always dark and stagnant.[/FONT]
Furthermore, amongst all these rituals Buddhism causes people to forget God, or even to deny Him.
[FONT=&quot]Islam, on the other hand, totally opposes this distorted mentality. It offers people a rational, restorative and dynamic life. Quite unlike Buddhists, those who live by the moral values of Islam are always productive, happy and at peace.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And, most important of all, those who live by the moral values of Islam draw close to God, the Lord of all creation, and gain the greatest happiness possible for human beings, the good pleasure of God.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This film portrays the religion of Buddhism and its irrational practices. Those who regard Buddhism as a road to peace and contentment as a result of deceptive propaganda should pay close attention to the truths described in this film.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]THE BIRTH OF BUDDHISM[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the 6th century BC India was under the occupation of the Aryans ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The dominant religion in the country was that of the Aryans: Brahmanism.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Aryans implemented a strict caste system in the country.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Under that caste system society was divided into different groups.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Brahmin priests were at the top of this system.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And ruthlessly oppressed the people.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]During those years a son was born to Prince Suddhodana, a member of the noble Sakya family: Siddhartha Gautama ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Siddhartha spent his youth in ease and plenty.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]When he reached the age of 29, however, he left the palace he was living in.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And turned to a mystical quest.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]As a result of which he set out certain principles.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]These principles gradually turned into a teaching: Buddhism ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism arose in Northeast India.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In time it extended throughout Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Kampuchea, China, Tibet, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea and Nepal. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Today, it has about 330 million followers.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The word Buddha means “the awakened, or enlightened one,” signifying the spiritual heights that Siddartha Gautama is supposed to have attained.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And Siddhartha is remembered by that name.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddha chose to speak about his basic tenets and hand on his form of worship orally.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The teachings of Buddha were handed on from generation to generation, in oral form only, for 400 years. This teaching was then collected in a book called Pali-Canon.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The text regarded as sacred by Buddhism today is the Tipitaka, which contains many crass errors. This text was written in the Pali language.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhist priests perform their ceremonies and organise their lives according to this text.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The only subject matter in these books is people suppressing all their desires and trying to train their souls by living lives full of poverty and suffering.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists have so concentrated on those matters that they are totally unaware of a far more important truth.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]That truth is the existence of God.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]AN ATHEIST RELIGION[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Many people who lack a comprehensive knowledge of Buddhism imagine that the aim in Buddhism is the worship of a Creator, as in the revealed religions.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The truth, however, is very different. Buddhism is a teaching which totally ignores the existence of God. For that reason Buddhism is regarded as an atheist religion.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]One of the main reasons for this is the narrow-mindedness of Buddhism.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists build their lives on suppressing human wishes and desires and on performing various rituals.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They never consider the question of how the universe, living things and human beings came into existence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No Buddhist writings have ever even touched on these matters …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists are therefore unaware of the existence and infinite might of the Almighty God, Creator of the universe and all living things.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]As well as being atheist, Buddhism is also a pagan religion. In other words it worships idols. The idol in question being Buddha himself.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The process of turning Buddha into an idol began immediately after his death. Buddhist priests set about making him divine.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They adorned the places they lived in with giant statues of the Buddha. And then superstitiously worshipped these idols they had made with their own hands.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They even built temples in which the Buddha’s eyes were depicted.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They thus believed that the Buddha could see everywhere and constantly watch people.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism, an atheist religion, is unaware of the truths of the teachings of revealed religions such as Islam, Christianity and Judaism.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The most important characteristic of revealed religions is that they regard God as the one and only.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the Qur’an God reveals that: “Your God is one God, so submit to Him.” (Qur’an 22:34)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists, however, deny God and irrationally make an idol out of Buddha, a helpless and mortal human being, just like themselves. In other words, they ascribe partners to God …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In hundreds of places in the Qur’an God reminds us that this “association” is a very serious sin. God has revealed that He will never forgive those who ascribe partners to Him in one verse:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]God does not forgive anything being associated with Him, but He forgives whoever He wills for anything other than that. Anyone who associates something with God has committed a terrible crime. (Qur'an, 4: 48)[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]AN OPPRESSIVE AND ENSLAVING RELIGION[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Many people believe that Buddhism is a comforting, peace-giving religion. They even imagine that it represents a solution to many problems.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This, however, is a great error, because that which Buddhism regards as a virtue consists of suffering.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For that reason this religion pushes people towards a life full of suffering and poverty. Eating the best foods, and being clean and comfortable, are forbidden in Buddhism.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For Buddhist monks and nuns, life is full of all kinds of difficulties. They are forbidden to work. They feed themselves by going from door to door and begging among the people.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For this reason, Buddhist priests are even called bhikkhus, which means beggars, by the people. This is a most humiliating position.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhist priests are forbidden to marry or have any kind of family life. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They may own only one robe. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They eat only one meal a day. And they must finish this before noon. This meal generally consists of bread and rice flavoured with spices. It is forbidden to eat such things as meat or fruit.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In short, Buddhist strictures are a form of self-torture. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Islam, on the other hand, wishes people to take advantage of the good things of the world and forbids them to inflict suffering on themselves.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Islam offers a peaceful life aimed at winning the good pleasure of God.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]People who live by the moral values of the Qur’an are clean, take pleasure from life and are always animated, joyful and happy.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This what God reveals concerning those who, like Buddhists, inflict suffering on themselves:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]God does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who wrong themselves. (Qur’an, 10: 44)[/FONT]


[FONT=&quot]THE SUPERSTITIOUS RITUALS OF BUDDHISM[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Tibet … a land where Buddhism rules …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]There are many temples here.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They are all decorated with gold and precious stones and possess an extravagant appearance.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This is supposedly a sign of the respect felt for Buddha.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This display and wealth, however, is in sharp contrast to the poverty of the people.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Laos, Nepal, India …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism is also widespread in these countries.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And the same stark contrast can also be seen in them.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Magnificent, wealthy temples …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And poverty-ridden peoples …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In short, Buddhism brings with it injustice rather than social justice, poverty rather than well-being. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]One of the most striking aspects of Buddhism is its strange, superstition-filled rituals…[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The famous Samye monastery in Tibet …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A ceremony is taking place here.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhist priests are playing the radong, a trumpet 4.5 meters in length. This instrument occupies an important place in Buddhist ritual.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Jokhang temple …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]People are performing a Buddhist ritual;[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Bowing down before a statue of the Buddha they fulfil the obligations of their twisted, pagan religion.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists in this temple in Kathmandu blindly continue the traditions handed down from their forefathers, never questioning them in any way.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They spend their days praying around the walls of the temple and turning prayer wheels.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]There are hundreds of flags outside Buddhist temples.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]These are prayer flags.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to Buddhists’ superstitious beliefs, the prayers written on these flags are cast around by the wind.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists thus imagine that they have done something meritorious.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This, like other Buddhist beliefs, is a superstitious myth.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Because Buddhists, who deny the existence of God, cannot even say who they are praying to …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Relics of the Buddha and leading Buddhist priests are also kept in these temples.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists entering their temples worship the statues of the Buddha.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They offer them flowers and incense.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists regard all these rituals as a way to salvation. But they are gravely mistaken …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Because the statues of the Buddha, to which they burn incense and make wishes, can neither see nor hear them …[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The warnings that the prophets issued to pagans in the past also apply, therefore, to present-day Buddhists: [/FONT]
When he [Ibrahim] said to his father and his people, “What are these statues you are clinging to?” they said, “We found our fathers worshipping them.” He said, “You and your fathers are clearly misguided.” (Qur’an, 21:52-54)
[FONT=&quot]If Buddhists, who blindly carry on the traditions of their forefathers, were to think, they would see what a terrible mistake they are making.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Buddha they worship is helpless and mortal, just like all human beings.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the same way that He created everything and everyone in the universe, God also created Buddha.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The only entity worthy of being served is the Almighty God.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Concerning those people who fail to realise this truth and worship objects, God asks: [/FONT]
Do they make things into partner-gods which cannot create anything and are themselves created; which are not capable of helping them and cannot even help themselves? (Qur’an, 7:191-192)

[FONT=&quot]THE ERRORS OF REINCARNATION AND KARMA[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhist teaching, which rejects the life of the hereafter, is in grave error regarding life after death.[/FONT]
Unfillable gaps thus arise in Buddhists’ internal lives, and deep wounds in their minds.
[FONT=&quot]Buddhist belief on this subject rests on the twin superstitions of reincarnation and karma.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to the belief in reincarnation, they are reborn in different bodies after death. In other words, a person returns to earth after he has died.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to the belief in karma, a person will inevitably be rewarded in his next life for all the things he does in the course of this one.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]To such an extent, in fact, that a bad person can even come back as a plant or an animal.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]If so, who judges a person's former life and sends him back into the world in a new body? [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]How, according to this belief which denies the existence of God, does the process of karma work?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists are unable to offer any rational reply to these questions. Because there is nothing rational about their religion. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Even if the philosophy of karma may appear at first sight to gain people some positive moral virtues, it in fact leads them to gravely mistaken ideas.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to this belief, people’s helplessness, sicknesses and weaknesses stem from moral impurities, and are supposedly a punishment for their deeds in a previous life.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For example, the reason why someone is poor or handicapped is his behaviour in a previous life.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]All the bad things that person did in his previous life come back as poverty in this one. In other words, it is well-deserved![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In Islam, however, people’s weaknesses or problems are no crime.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They are merely a test.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And others are charged with helping such needy people.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For this reason, Islam has a very strong sense of social justice.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This attitude can also be found in Christianity and Judaism, which come from the same divine source.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The belief in karma, on the other hand, which can be found in other Far eastern religions as well as Buddhism, demolishes the idea of social justice and leads to oppressed people being oppressed still further.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The unjust caste system in India, which has been practiced for hundreds of years and divides society into groups, found its philosophical basis in the myth of karma.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to Islam, reincarnation is also a great myth.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to the Qur’an, there is a life in this world, and an eternal life in the hereafter. It is impossible to come to earth more than once.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In one verse we are told the following about death and resurrection: [/FONT]
How can you reject God, when you were dead and then He gave you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again, then you will be returned to Him? (Qur’an, 2: 28)
[FONT=&quot]Every human being is dead to begin with. In other words, the basis of human creation is inanimate substances such as earth and water. God later gives life to this inanimate mass.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]At a specific time after the individual has been brought to life, life comes to an end, and he dies. That is the end of his life.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]He returns to the earth and decays back into the soil. That is the second time a human being enters the state of death.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Finally, he will be resurrected in the hereafter, and give account for everything he did in this world.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the Qur'an, God says that after a human being has come into this world, he will experience only one death: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They will not taste any death there—except for the first one. He will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire. A favor from your Lord. That is the Great Victory. (Qur’an, 44: 56-57)[/FONT]

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[Mononoke]

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[FONT=&quot]WHY IS BUDDHISM SUPPORTED IN THE WEST?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Western world began being interested in Buddhism in the 19th century. By the second half of the 20th century, Buddhism had become really fashionable. The pop culture of the 1960s in particular supported the religion and made it famous.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Western youth and some intellectuals during those years abandoned traditional Christian belief and began a new search. They turned to the religions of the Far East.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]George Harrison, a member of the famous band The Beatles, turned to Hinduism, another pagan belief. In the wake of that, millions of Beatles fans also began taking an interest in that teaching. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]John Lennon used Buddhist mantras in his song “Across the Universe.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]During those years, Buddhist melodies, clothing and pronouncements became the fashion. Many young people felt an interest in Buddhism, out of mere imitation, without ever questioning its mythical teachings.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists’ unusual clothing, haircuts and rituals which passed the bounds of logic and caused people trouble and difficulties for nothing, became the fashion amongst attention-seekers.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Over the ensuing years, Buddhism was imposed on Western society through popular cultural expressions. In this process, Hollywood took the lead. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]However, that same Hollywood approached revealed religions in quite the opposite manner.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Most Hollywood films espoused beliefs which violated Christian belief and morality. Systematic messages were given out to reinforce anti-religious theories. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The theory of evolution was powerfully imposed on viewers of films with a scientific content.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For example, the tradition of “anti-religious Darwinist propaganda” began with the film Inherit the Wind, which dealt with the famous Scopes Trial of a Darwinist teacher in 1925.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Hollywood’s attitude of opposition to revealed religions was the exact opposite of its attitude towards Buddhism.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism was portrayed in a great many films as a humane religion, attractive and full of peace.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]One of these films was Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Kundun[/FONT][FONT=&quot], directed by Martin Scorsese and dealing with the life of the Dalai Lama, the chief Buddhist priest, was propaganda aimed at Buddhist communities.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Little Buddha[/FONT][FONT=&quot], by the famous director Bernardo Bertolucci, on the one hand summarised the life of Siddhartha Gautama and on the other told of three young children bearing the soul of the Buddha.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]What is more, one of these children was Western![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The private lives of actors and actresses also played a major role in this propaganda.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]One of these was the famous actor Steven Seagal.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism declared Steven Seagal to be the reincarnation of a 15th century lama![/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The famous actor Richard Gere, in addition to writing books promoting Buddhism, founded the Tibet House in New York with Richard Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This Buddhist propaganda, which surrounds the Western world and has even been reflected to some extent in some Muslim countries, is no coincidence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism is being deliberately encouraged.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]That is because the social forces which are encouraging Buddhism find this twisted religion very compatible with another teaching, which constitutes the basis of their own world view. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]HUXLEY’S DISCOVERY OF BUDDHISM[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists believe in a constant process of change in nature.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to the doctrine of karma, a fish could come back as a mammal in a later life, and a human being could come back as an insect.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In other words, it envisages a “transmigration of souls” between species and between human beings and animals.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Close inspection will show that this error is closely compatible with another contemporary error: Darwin’s theory of evolution. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]One Buddhist researcher has described as follows the relation between Buddhism and evolution: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism. . . is quite happy with the theory of evolution. In fact, Buddhist philosophy actually requires evolution to take place—all things are seen as being transient, constantly becoming, existing for a while, and then fading. The idea of unchanging species would not be compatible with Buddhist ontology. (Sean Robsville, Arguments Against Buddhism, http://www.geocities.com/scimah/argumentsagainstbuddhism.htm)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For this reason, Darwinists have felt sympathetic toward Buddhism and promoted it ever since the 19th century.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The first person to give voice to this admiration was Thomas Huxley, Darwin’s strongest supporter.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Huxley was an admirer of Buddhism. Because just like Darwinism, Buddhism rejected the idea of a Creator.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In Huxley’s view, therefore, it was most compatible with Western civilization. He wrote these words on the subject: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][Buddhism is] a system which knows no God in the Western sense; which denies a soul to man; which counts the belief in immortality a blunder and hope of it a sin; which refuses any efficacy to prayer and sacrifice; which bids men look to nothing but their own efforts for salvation. (Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics, p. 74) [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Certain other thinkers who sought to impose materialist philosophy and atheism on European societies followed Huxley’s path and took an interest in Buddhism.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]One of these was the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, an atheist who harboured a deep hatred of revealed religions.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The sympathy felt for Buddhism by such materialists as Huxley and Nietzsche shows the purpose underlying the present-day Buddhist propaganda.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Materialists portray Buddhism as a vehicle by which to add some spiritual values, albeit artifical ones, to the non-believing model of society they wish to establish. Their aim is to prevent the rise of the revealed religions by means of alternative, false ones.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]All Far Eastern religions are superstitious beliefs with no basis in God’s revelation.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]People who become caught up in such superstitious beliefs should consider the verses of God, our true Creator.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And they should walk on the path of God, as commanded in the Qur’an.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]COULD BUDDHISM BE A TRUE RELIGION THAT’S BECOME DISTORTED?[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Alongside all the erroneous beliefs we have been looking at, there are some positive moral principles in Buddhism.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]That is one of the reasons for this religion’s spread in the West.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For instance, Buddhism forbids theft ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It encourages people to help one another ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]All of this suggests that Buddhism possibly began as a religion founded on God's revelation, only to become corrupted over the course of time. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the Qur'an, God tells us that He sent messengers to every nation to deliver His warnings:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We have sent you [Muhammad] with the truth bringing good news and giving warning. There is no community to which a warner has not come. (Qur'an, 35: 24)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This verse show us that God could certainly have sent a messenger to the Hindus. That warner might perhaps have been Siddhartha Gautama, known as “the founder of Buddhism.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]After him, however, people may have distorted this religion.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And Buddhism lost its original features.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Assimilating various local myths it turned into a superstitious religion. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Even if Buddhism genuinely comes from a divine origin, it has by now entirely departed from it.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It has been smothered by superstitious beliefs and rituals.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And it is now impossible for it to lead people to the true path.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhism ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]An atheist teaching which denies the existence of God ...[/FONT]
A pagan religion ...
[FONT=&quot]A fanatical tradition which envisages people inflicting suffering on themselves ...[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In this film we have looked at the way that Buddhism, which some people regard with great longing, harbours very erroneous beliefs and practices.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We have seen how the myths of reincarnation and karma mislead people.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The greatest of this religion’s errors is the way that it is based not on knowledge from God, but rather on various traditions and philosophies created by human beings over the course of time, and regards these as sacred.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buddhists and those who feel sympathetic towards this religion should consider these truths in detail.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And at once liberate themselves from this superstitious belief.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Because people who accept teachings other than those of the religion revealed by God are referred to in the Qur’an thus: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]What these people are doing is destined for destruction. What they are doing is purposeless.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] (Qur'an, 7: 139)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The path that will lead people to the truth, happiness and peace is that revealed by God, in other words the religion of Islam.[/FONT]
Islam brings people reason, civilisation, science, art and joy. It illuminates their souls and frees them from darkness and despair. Indeed, thanks to this, nations which have been honoured by Islam and sincerely lived according to that religion established one of the greatest civilisations in the history of the world, and led the world in all fields.
[FONT=&quot]That is because Islam is the way revealed by God.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The only means of salvation until the day of judgement lies in abiding by that path.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]As God informs us in the Qur’an: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]This is My Path, and it is straight, so follow it. Do not follow other ways, or you will become cut off from His Way. That is what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you may do your duty. (Qur'an, 6: 153)[/FONT]

 

[I love Srilanka]

I hope it is reasonable article, why u are saying muslim fear about buddhism.what u mean by that.Whatever islam says as per Quran quotation given for non believers and idle worshippers not only for Buddhists.

 

[I love Srilanka]

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"I HAVE STUDIED HIM - THE WONDERFUL MAN - AND IN MY OPINION FAR FROM BEING AN ANTI-CHRIST, HE MUST BE CALLED THE SAVIOUR OF HUMANITY." [George Bernard Shaw, in "The Genuine Islam,- Vol. 1, No. 81936.]

"BY A FORTUNE ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE IN HISTORY, MOHAMMED IS A THREEFOLD FOUNDER OF A NATION, OF AN EMPIRE, AND OF A RELIGION." [R. Bosworth-Smith in "Mohammed and Mohammedanism".- 1946.]

"Five to 6 million strong, Muslims in America already outnumber Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Mormons, and they are more numerous than Quakers, Unitarians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mennonites, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, combined. Many demographers say Islam has overtaken Judaism as the country's second-most commonly practiced religion; others say it is in the passing lane." [JOHAN BLANK,
US NEWS (7/20/98)]

"In fact, Religion experts say Islam is the second-largest religion in the United States... Islam has 5 million to 6 million members, followed by Judaism, with approximately 4.5 million..... And Islam is believed to be fastest-growing religion in the country, with half its expansion coming from new immigrants and the other half from conversions." [By ELSA C. ARNETT Knight-Ridder News Service]

 

[I love Srilanka]

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It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'ân about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from Allah, or Allah, because almost all of this knowledge was not discovered
until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of Allah. [Professor Keith Moore, one of the world’s prominent scientists of anatomy and embryology. University of Toronto, Canada]

"But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause of humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East than Europe does, and it possesses a magnificent tradition of inter-racial understanding and cooperation. No other society has such a record of success uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavours so many and so various races of mankind . . . Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition. If ever the opposition of the great societies of East and West is to be replaced by cooperation, the mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition. In its hands lies very largely the solution of the problem with which Europe is faced in its relation with East. If they unite, the hope of a peaceful issue is immeasurably enhanced. But if Europe, by rejecting the cooperation of Islam, throws it into the arms of its rivals, the issue can only be disastrous for both." [H.A.R. Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM, London, 1932, P. 379.]

"It (Islam) replaced monkishness by manliness. It gives hope to the slave, brotherhood to mankind, and recognition of the fundamental facts of human nature." [Canon Taylor, Paper read before the Church Congress at Walverhamton, Oct. 7, 1887; Quoted by Arnoud in THE PREACHING OF ISLAM, pp. 71-72.]

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which
human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he? " [Lamartine, Historie de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-2727]

"If a man like Muhammed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that
would bring it the much needed peace and happiness." [George Bernard Shaw]

"How, for instance, can any other appeal stand against that of the Moslem who, in approaching the pagan, says to him, however obscure or degraded he may be 'Embrace the faith, and you are at once equal and a brother.' Islam knows no color line." [S. S. Leeder, VEILED MYSTERIES OF EGYPT]

I think it seems to me very, very mysterious, almost unbelievable. I really think if what you have said is true, [Professor Siaveda , He is also one of the most famous scientists in the world.]

Professor William W. Hay is one of the best known marine scientists in the United States. satellite photography and emote-sensing techniques. Professor Hay replied: I find it very interesting that this sort of information is in the ancient scripture of the Holy Qur'ân, and I have no way of knowing where they would come from, but I think it is extremely interesting that they are there and that this work is going on to discover it, the meaning of some of the passages. Professor Hay: Well, I would think it must be the divine being!

[Professor Yushudi Kusan: Director of the Tokyo Observatory] I can say, I am very mush impressed by finding true astronomical facts in the Qur'ân.

[Professor Alfred Kroner who is one of the world’s most famous geologists] "Thinking about many of these questions and thinking where Muhammad came from, he was after all a bedouin. I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe,
because scientists have only found out within the last few years with very complicated and advanced technological methods that this is the case.

[Dr. T.V.N. Persaud is a Professor of Anatomy and Head of the Department of Anatomy, and a professor of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is the author or editor of 25 books, and has published over 181 scientific papers. In 1991, he received the most distinguished award presented in the field of anatomy in Canada.] "It seems to me that Muhammad was a very ordinary man. He could not read or write. In fact, he was illiterate. We are talking about 1400 years ago. You have someone who was illiterate making profound pronouncement
and statements and are amazingly accurate about scientific nature. I personally cannot see how this could be mere chance. There are too many accuracy’s and, like Dr. Moore, I have no difficulty in my mind in concerning that this is a divine inspiration or revelation which led him to these statements."

Joe Leigh Simpson, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the North Western University in Chicago in the United States of America. Professor Simpson said: It follows, I think, that not only is there no conflict between genetics and religion, but in fact religion can guide science by adding revelation to some traditional scientific approaches. That there exists statements in the Qur'ân shown by science to be valid, which supports knowledge in the Qur'ân having been derived from Allah.

[Professor Palmer a scientist from the U.S.] We need research into the history of early Middle Eastern oral traditions to know whether in fact such historical events have been reported. If there is no such record, it strengthens the belief that Allah transmitted through Muhammad bits of his knowledge that we have only discovered for ourselves in recent times. We look forward to a continuing dialogue on the topic of science in the Qur'ân in the context of geology. Thank you very much.

[Professor Tagata Tagasone, formerly Head of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Shiang Mai in Thailand. He is now the Dean of the College of the Medicine at the University.] From my studies and from what I have learned throughout this conference, I believe that everything that has been recorded in the Qur'ân 1400 years ago must be the truth, that can be proved by the scientific means. Since the Prophet Muhammad could neither read nor write, Muhammad must be a messenger who relayed this truth which was revealed to him as an enlightenment by the One Who is an Eligible Creator. This Creator must
be Allah, or Allah. Therefore, I think this is the time to say ‘Laa ilaaha illallah’, that there is no Allah to worship except Allah, ‘Muhammad Rasool Allah’, Muhammad is messenger of Allah...

[Professor Armstrong, Scientist works at NASA] I am impressed that how remarkably some of the ancient writings seem to correspond to modern and recent Astronomy. There may well have to be something beyond what we understand as ordinary human experience to account for the writings that we have seen.

[Professor Durga Rao] It is difficult to imagine that this type of knowledge was existing at that time, around 1400 years back. May be some of the things they have simple idea about, but do describe those things in great detail is very difficult. So, this is definitely not a simple human knowledge.

"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level." [Michael H. Hart, THE 100: A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY, New York: Hart Publishing Company, Inc., 1978, p. 33.]

"No other society has such a record of success in uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity and Endeavour so many and so varied races of mankind. The great Muslim communities of Africa, India and Indonesia, perhaps also the small community in
Japan, show that Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements of race and tradition. If
ever the opposition of the great societies of the East and west is to be replaced by cooperation, the mediation of Islam is
an indispensable condition." [H.A.R. Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM, p. 379]

The nation's claim to be a Christian country is about to meet its first challenge: the number of practising Muslims is set to overtake Anglican Christians.... There has also been a number of high-profile conversions to Islam from Christianity. These include Mike Tyson, the former world champion boxer; Chris Eubank, the British middleweight boxing champion, who has changed his name to Hamdan; and Cat Stevens, the pop musician, who calls himself Yusuf Islam.... Prince Charles courted controversy earlier this year when he reaffirmed his
claim that when he succeeds the throne, he does not wish to be the defender of only the Christian faith. [Rajeev Syal and Christopher Morgan Sunday Times (London, U.K.)]

"I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of
humanity. " [George Bernard Shaw in "The Genuine Islam"]

"Muhammad, the inspired man who founded Islam, was born about A.D. 570 into an Arabian tribe that worshipped idols. Orphaned at birth, he was always particularly solicitous of the poor and needy, the widow and the orphan, the slave and the downtrodden. At twenty, he was already a successful businessman, and soon became director of camel caravans for a wealthy widow. When he reached twenty-five, his employer, recognizing his merit, proposed marriage. Even though she was fifteen years older, he married her, and as long as she lived, remained a devoted husband. "Like almost every major prophet before him, Muhammad fought shy of serving as the transmitter of God's word, sensing his own inadequacy. But the angel commanded 'Read.' So far as we know, Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of the earth: 'There is one God.' "In all things Muhammad was profoundly practical. When his beloved son Ibrahim died, an eclipse occurred, and rumours of God's personal condolence quickly arose. Whereupon Muhammad is said to have announced,
'An eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish to attribute such things to the death or birth of a human being. "At Muhammad's own death an attempt was made to deify him, but the man who was to become his administrative successor killed the hysteria with one of the noblest speeches in religious history: 'If there are any among you who worshipped Muhammad, he is dead. But if it is God you worshipped, He lives forever." [James A. Michener, "Islam: The Misunderstood Religion," in READER'S DIGEST (American edition), May 1955, pp. 68-70.]

"In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal rule of Medina, with his hands on the lever
that was to shake the world." [John Austin, "Muhammad the Prophet of Allah," in T.P. 's and Cassel's Weekly for 24th September 1927.]

"Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'ân; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'ân further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the only answer for me was the Qur'ân and God had sent it to me." [Cat Stevens (Now Yusuf Islam), former British pop star.]

"Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the
greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . . " [John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol.1, pp.329-330]

"Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him." [Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p. l 22.]

"People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser
degree, Moses did the same." [Professor Jules Masserman]

[Ahmed Versi, editor of the weekly Muslim News,] said the growth of Islam has been constant: "The younger generation of Muslims that I have encountered is becoming more aware of its Muslim identity and is therefore practising its faith with vigour."

"The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam and in the
contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue..." [A.J. Toynbee,
CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York, p. 205]

"Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'ân I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world." [Lectures on "The Ideals of Islam;" see SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF SAROJINI NAIDU, Madras, 1918, p. 167.]

"History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated." [De Lacy O'Leary, ISLAM AT THE CROSSROADS, London, 1923, p. 8.]

"The Muslim community is much more aware of its religion and the use that religion plays within its community." [Dr Peter Brierley, Executive Director of the Christian Research Association, a London-based charity]

"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much
needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today." [G.B. Shaw, THE GENUINE ISLAM, Vol. 1, No. 81936.]

"A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American," [Charles Bierbauer, from the Senior Washington Correspondent]

"The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue." [A.J. Toynbee, CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York, 1948, p. 205.]

"The rise of Islam is perhaps the most amazing event in human history. Springing from a land and a people like previously negligible, Islam spread within a century over half the earth, shattering great empires, overthrowing long established religions, remoulding the souls of races, and building up a whole new world - world of Islam.

 

[aminda001]

I hope it is reasonable article, why u are saying muslim fear about buddhism.what u mean by that.Whatever islam says as per Quran quotation given for non believers and idle worshippers not only for Buddhists.

Anee sirajstc ponna keriyo......I love AL KAIDA kiyala daa ganin.......

 

[I love Srilanka]

"The closer we examine this development the more extraordinary does it appear. The other great religions won
their way slowly, by painful struggle and finally triumphed with the aid of powerful monarchs converted to the new faith. Christianity had its Constantine, Buddhism its Asoka, and Zoroastrianism its Cyrus, each lending to his chosen cult the mighty force of secular authority. Not so Islam. Arising in a desert land sparsely inhabited by a nomad race previously undistinguished in human annals, Islam sallied forth on its great adventure with the slenderest human backing and against the heaviest material odds. Yet Islam triumphed with seemingly miraculous ease, and a couple of generations saw the Fiery
Crescent borne victorious from the Pyrenees to the Himalayas and from the desert of Central Asia to the deserts of Central Africa." [A.M.L. Stoddard, quoted in ISLAM - THE RELIGION OF ALL PROPHETS, Begum Bawani Waqf, Karachi, Pakistan, p. 56.]

"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that embedded in the Qur'ân and other expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and 'Islam is certainly a strong contender for the supplying of the basic framework of the one religion of the future.'" [W. Montgomery Watt, ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY TODAY, London, 1983, p. ix.]

'I believe in One God and Mahomet the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honours of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion." [Edward Gibbon and Simon Ocklay, HISTORY OF
THE SARACEN EMPIRE, London, 1870, p. 54.]

"He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue; if ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by the right divine, it was Mohammed, for he had all the power without its instruments and without its supports." [Bosworth Smith, MOHAMMAD AND MOHAMMADANISM, London, 1874, p. 92.]

"His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad." [W. Montgomery Watt, MOHAMMAD AT MECCA, Oxford, 1953, p. 52.]

"The doctrine of brotherhood of Islam extends to all human beings, no matter what color, race or creed. Islam is the only religion which has been able to realize this doctrine in practice. Muslims wherever on the world they are will recognize each other as brothers." [Mr. R. L. Mellema, Holland, Anthropologist, Writer and Scholar.]

"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher." [Annie Besant, THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF MUHAMMAD, Madras, 1932, p.4.]

Friends and foes alike, as if by some secret compulsion are made to pay unsolicited tributes to this mighty Messenger of God. But the Almighty commanders even the devil into His service, as He had done in the time of Jesus (pbuh), (Matthew 4:1 -11). Even the devil sometimes speaks Gospel truths. Professor K. S. Ramakrishna Rao, a Hindu philosopher in his book "MUHUMMED - The Prophet of lslam", quotes the arch-devil himself, yes, Adolf Hitler, to prove the unique greatness of Muhammad (pbuh).

The Professor, like Jules Masserman who had evaluated the Prophet of Islam on three grounds (see appendix "C" on page 63) also saw in Hitler's "Mein Kamp!" a three faceted jewel, a rare commodity which he found in our hero under discussion. Quoting Hitler, he says: "A GREAT THEORIST IS SELDOM A GREAT LEADER. AN AGITATOR IS FAR MORE LIKELY TO POSSESS THESE QUALITIES. HE WILL ALWAYS BE A BETTER
LEADER. FOR, LEADERSHIP MEANS THE ABILITY TO MOVE MASSES OF MEN. THE TALENT TO PRODUCE IDEAS HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE CAPACITY FOR LEADERSHIP." HITLER CONTINUES, "THE UNION OF THE THEORIST, ORGANISER, AND LEADER IN ONE MAN IS THE RAREST PHENOMENON ON THIS EARTH; THEREIN CONSISTS GREATNESS." PROFESSOR RAO CONCLUDES, IN HIS OWN WORDS, "IN THE PERSON OF THE PROPHET OF ISLAM THE WORLD HAS SEEN THIS RAREST PHENOMENON ON EARTH,
WALKING IN FLESH AND BLOOD."
"The essential and definite element of my conversion to Islam was the Qur'ân. I began to study it before my conversion with the critical spirit of a Western intellectual .... There are certain verses of this book, the Qur'ân, revealed more than thirteen centuries ago, which teach exactly the same notions as the most modern scientific researches do. This definitely converted me." [Ali Selman Benoist, France, Doctor of Medicine.]

"I have read the Sacred Scriptures of every religion; nowhere have I found what I encountered in Islam: perfection. The Holy Qur'ân, compared to any other scripture I have read, is like the Sun compared to that of a match. I firmly believe that anybody who reads the Word of Allah with a mind that is not completely closed to Truth, will become a Muslim." [Saifuddin Dirk Walter Mosig, U.S.A.]

"The universal brotherhood of Islam, regardless of race, politics, color or country, has been brought home to me most keenly many times in my life -- and this is another feature which drew me towards the Faith." [Col. Donald S. Rockwell, U.S.A. Poet, Critic and Author.]

"Medieval Islam was technologically advanced and open to innovation. It achieved far higher literacy rates than in contemporary Europe; it assimilated the legacy of classical Greek civilization to such a degree that many classical books are now known to us only through Arabic copies. It invented windmills ,trigonometry, lateen sails and made major advances in metallurgy, mechanical and chemical engineering and irrigation methods. In the middle-ages the flow of technology was overwhelmingly from Islam to Europe rather from Europe to Islam. Only after the 1500's did the net direction of flow begin to reverse." [(pg 253) Jared Diamond a world renowned UCLA sociologist, and physiologist won the Pulitzer Prize for his book: "Guns, Germs, and Steel."]

The scientists who participated in these dialogues were all non-Muslims, most of whom were explaining some scientific facts which they have realized only very recently and after several years of research and study. When they were told that what they have just discovered recently was already referred to either directly or indirectly in the Holy Qur'ân more than 1400 years ago, they showed a great deal of astonishment. Their comments were varied, but almost all of them confessed that this Qur'ân could not have come from any human or ordinary
source. Indeed, some of them were convinced and have affirmed that the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, is a messenger from Allah, to the point that one of them even embraced Islam by declaring the Islamic creed otherwise known as the "Shahaadah" and thus became a Muslim.

The Qur'ân which was revealed 14 centuries ago mentioned facts only recently discovered by proven scientists. This proves without doubt that the Qur'ân must be the literal word of Allah, revealed by Him to the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) and it also proves that Muhammad (sallallahu 'alaihi wa
sallam) is truly a Messenger and Prophet sent by Allah. It is beyond reason that anyone fourteen hundred years ago would have known these facts discovered or proven only recently with advanced equipment and sophisticated methods. Moreover, the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu 'alaihi wa sallam) reviewed the Qur'ân with the Angel Jibreel once each year and twice in the last year of his life. Since the Qur'ân was revealed up until this day, there has always been a huge number of Muslims who have memorized all of the Qur'ân, letter by letter. Some of them have been able to memorize all of the Qur'ân by Heart.[/COLOR][/B]

 

[I love Srilanka]

Anee sirajstc ponna keriyo......I love AL KAIDA kiyala daa ganin.......

Hello, why u blame Siraj..Take it easy..

 

[Mononoke]

I hope it is reasonable article, why u are saying muslim fear about buddhism.

The reasons are many, I'll give them tomorrow

 

[sudunone]

පව් නේද? කොහොමත් බය වෙලා ඉන්න අයව තවත් බය කරනවා.

 

[hafizsaad]

Sirajstc had posted this on this page:http://www.elakiri.com/forum/group.php?do=discuss&group=&discussionid=141.

what this link show ..? have you imagine.....?

we (Muslim) people when give respect to other religion like budhism, its not mean that we don't know the reality of that religion.....
there are many issue on which we can also laugh and criticize like other budhish peoples, they laugh and criticize and use very unethical and shamful language and comments for islam...
.
but we want peace and brotherhood in this forum..

 

[sudunone]

මං හිතන්නෙ අලුතෙන් නීතියක් දැම්මොත් හොඳයි කොහෙන් හරි කොපි පේස්ට් කරනකොට ඒකෙ දිග පළල පිළිබඳව සීමාවක් සහ, නිකම්ම කොපි පේස්ට් නොකර ඒ පිළිබඳව තමාගේ අදහස, තමන්ගෙ වචනවලින්ම කියන්න ඕනෙ කියලත්. මේ කොපි පේස්ට් කරන කට්ටිය තමන්වත් ඒ ලිපි කියවල තියෙනවද කියල මට සැකයි. අනික තමුන් කතා කරන මාතෘකාවට ඒකෙන් අදාල කොටස තෝර ගන්න හැකියාවක් තියෙනවනම් මුලු එකම කොපි කරන්න ඕනෙ නෑ නෙ.

 

[Mononoke]

what this link show ..? have you imagine.....?

we (Muslim) people when give respect to other religion like budhism, its not mean that we don't know the reality of that religion.....
there are many issue on which we can also laugh and criticize like other budhish peoples, they laugh and criticize and use very unethical and shamful language and comments for islam...
.
but we want peace and brotherhood in this forum..

Did I at any point say that it is not within your rights to make such a social group or criticize buddhism. Your criticism is most welcome. But i find this particular instance of it inane.

 

[hafizsaad]

Did I at any point say that it is not within your rights to make such a social group or criticize buddhism. Your criticism is most welcome. .

all community people can make social groups and share information....there is a difference between criticism and insult....

 

[Mononoke]

all community people can make social groups and share information....there is a difference between criticism and insult....

[FONT=&quot]That is because the social forces which are encouraging Buddhism find this twisted religion very compatible with another teaching, which constitutes the basis of their own world view. [/FONT]

Oh, tell me which side of the fence does that particular, unqualified, comment fall. Is that an insult or just a lie. Please cut the nonsense, if you get offended then sorry; but learn to live with it. I have no interest in preserving your apple cart.

 

[hafizsaad]

Oh, tell me which side of the fence does that particular, unqualified, comment fall. Is that an insult or just a lie. Please cut the nonsense, if you get offended then sorry; but learn to live with it. I have no interest in preserving your apple cart.

i have not posted the below quote...you are selecting yourself...

"That is because the social forces which are encouraging Buddhism find this twisted religion very compatible with another teaching, which constitutes the basis of their own world view."

you have the religion which is totally against budhism ...be rational in comments...not take one side...

 

[Wal Bada]

you have the religion which is totally against budhism ...be rational in comments...not take one side...

A hard-lined Muslim talking about rationalism = කලුනික හම්බ වීම

 

[smallvilleclerk50]

මං හිතන්නෙ අලුතෙන් නීතියක් දැම්මොත් හොඳයි කොහෙන් හරි කොපි පේස්ට් කරනකොට ඒකෙ දිග පළල පිළිබඳව සීමාවක් සහ, නිකම්ම කොපි පේස්ට් නොකර ඒ පිළිබඳව තමාගේ අදහස, තමන්ගෙ වචනවලින්ම කියන්න ඕනෙ කියලත්. මේ කොපි පේස්ට් කරන කට්ටිය තමන්වත් ඒ ලිපි කියවල තියෙනවද කියල මට සැකයි. අනික තමුන් කතා කරන මාතෘකාවට ඒකෙන් අදාල කොටස තෝර ගන්න හැකියාවක් තියෙනවනම් මුලු එකම කොපි කරන්න ඕනෙ නෑ නෙ.

siraawatama

 

[mayura12345]

මං හිතන්නෙ අලුතෙන් නීතියක් දැම්මොත් හොඳයි කොහෙන් හරි කොපි පේස්ට් කරනකොට ඒකෙ දිග පළල පිළිබඳව සීමාවක් සහ, නිකම්ම කොපි පේස්ට් නොකර ඒ පිළිබඳව තමාගේ අදහස, තමන්ගෙ වචනවලින්ම කියන්න ඕනෙ කියලත්. මේ කොපි පේස්ට් කරන කට්ටිය තමන්වත් ඒ ලිපි කියවල තියෙනවද කියල මට සැකයි. අනික තමුන් කතා කරන මාතෘකාවට ඒකෙන් අදාල කොටස තෝර ගන්න හැකියාවක් තියෙනවනම් මුලු එකම කොපි කරන්න ඕනෙ නෑ නෙ.

eka atta bun ohoma dammama kawruth kiyawanneth na

 

[pasaniw]

The MUSLIMs Fast Growth RATE is mostly because,
1. their child birth rate is high.... a Religional RULE which is stupid coz holy person whoever said it hasn't thought of that world cant afford trillions of people lives on earth! (my holy advise is to use change that rule to use condoms ma islamic fellas)

2. Converting pop/star class people, so that they can market bringing more influence using FAN conversions... (How tricky huh.!)

3. giving away money, stuff for getting converted (for poor people).

4. Islamic+other religion Marriages mostly result islamic believers with the influence, almost most of their children become muslims.

Can u muslim guys find 10 intelligent super people converted with proper reasons.. I doubt NO! coz no intelligent person get converted that easy to believe things.. they see the truth and nothing more.

U guys please LEARN what is buddhism is, I know that ur religion rules over it and says not to learn another religion.huh...

Note Buddhism is not a simple religion having believers arount it, but a Sight thru the wisdom with thinking (not to believe things, but to see the exact things happening with reasons for reasons...). That's why buddhism is admired and respected by intelligent communities, wise people!

U can't think of Buddhism's content by looking over, If you read thru it's ancient sources U will see what's truth is...

Actually a person who think and open the thinking power acquiring the wisdom would implicitly become a Buddhist,
rather believing something as a slave,
1. for the sake of written on books.
2. for the sake of came from parents.
3. For the sake of other people believe/trust it.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. (Albert Einstein)

Hey my muslim fellas I'm not angry with any of u.... pls note it, im cool..and I hope u guys too .