saharaz said:The person whose advent the Buddha Gautama prophesied bears different names in different languages.
In Pali his name is Metteyya,
in Sanskrit, Maitreya,
in Burmese, "Aremideia" (THE LEGEND OF GAUDAMA by Bigandet. Vol. I. P. 11. Foot Note.),
in Chinese, "Mei-ta-li-ye" (Si-Yu-Ki Vol. 1. P. XXIX), or "Milie Pusa" (BUDDHIST CHINA by Johnston P. 367.), or "Mili Fo" (Edkins P.208), or "Tzushih" (Yuan Chwang Vol. I. P. 239 by T. Watters),
in Tibetan, "Byams-pa" (Pr. 'Jampa' or 'Champa' Lamaism by Waddell P.355) or "Mahitreja" (THE RELIGION OF TIBET AND THE TRUE RELIGION by Frauson P. 38),
in Japanese, "Miroku." (Reischauer PP. 264-5.)
The English equivalent of Metteyya: -
1."Teacher of love." - Max Muller (CHIPS FROM A GERMAN WORKSHOP. Vol. I. P. 452).
2."Lord of love." - A Dharampal (THE LiFE AND TEACHINGS OF BUDDHA. P.83).
3."He whose name is kindness" - Carus (THE GOSPEL OF BUDDHA. P. 218.).
4."Buddha of kindness" - Rhys Davids (BUDDHISM. P. 180).
5."Universal love," or "Benevolence." - L. Narasu (ESSENCE OF BUDDHISM. P. 101; 105).
6."Buddha of brotherly love." - Lillie (BUDDHISM IN CHRISTENDOM. P. VII).
7.“Buddha of "Friendliness." - Fausboll (SUTTA NIPATA. P. 205).
8."Loving and compassionate." - Monier Williams. (BUDDHISM. P. 181.)
9."Love or mercifulness." - S. Beal (THE CHINESE DHAMMAPADA. P. 69.)
10."Compassionate" or of "Family of mercy" - Getty (GODS OF NORTHERN BUDDHISM. P. 20;68).
11."The merciful." - Herbert Baynes (THE WAY OF BUDDHA. P. 15).
12."Merciful one." - Joseph Edkins (CHINESE BUDDHISM. P. 240).
13."Quality of a friend; friendly; benevolent; kind; love, amity, sympathy, active interest in others." - William Steade (THE PALl DICTIONARY).
RAHMAT IS THE ARABIC EQUIVALENT OF MAITREYA.
Benevolence, loving kindness, friendliness, compassion, mercy or mercifulness, all words of similar import are all expressed by the Arabic word Rahmat.
The Arabic English lexicon by Edward William Lane gives some of the following equivalents of Rahmat:- "Mercy, pity, compassion, tenderness of heart; inclination requiring the exercise of favour, and beneficence; pardon and forgiveness."
Badger's English Arabic Lexicon includes "Goodness and providence".
"Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim are both derived from Rahmat, signifying tenderness requiring the exercise of beneficience (Raghib Imam) and thus comprising the idea of love and mercy. Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim are both active participle nouns of different measures.
Rahmat fully expresses the significauce of the word Metteyya. Sale translates Rahmat as "Mercy." (The Koran. Chapter 2l P.326
MOHAMMED IS MAITREYA BUDDAH
The followers of Jesus and of Shankaracharya both advertise their respective teachers as the Buddha Maitreya. Their own teachers remained silent on the point in their life-times. Not so Mohammed. Unlike Jesus and Shankaracharya he himself published that he was sent as the Maitreya (Mercy):-
"We have not sent thee (O Mohammed) but (as) a Mercy unto-creaturcs." (The Koran 21. P.26)
Very often the prophet is called a Maitreya (Mercy) in the Koran
(1) "(Thouart sent as) a Mercy (Maitreya) from thy Lord." (Ibid. 28. P382)
(2) "There are some of them who injure the prophet and say, he is an ear: Answer, He is an ear of good unto you: he believeth in God and giveth credit to the faithful and is a mercy (Maitreya) unto such of you who bclieve. (Ibid. 9. PP. 187-8.)
A number of times in his conversation Mohammed gave out that he was sent as a Maitreya:-
(1) Narrator Ahu Saieh. "The apostle of God used to address people, 'O people, I am a Mercy (Maitreya) (who is) sent (to you.)'" (D.P. 6.)
(2) On the field, of Ohod Mohammed "was very near losing his life, being struck down by a shower of stones, and wounded in the face with arrows." (Sale's Koran Foot Note P. 60.) When in this pitiable plight and profusely bleeding some of his companions asked him to curse the unbelieving enemy, he declined their request and prayed for the unbelieving enemy:- "I have not been sent for cursing, but as an inviter (unto God) and a Mercy (Maitreya). 0 God, guide my people (and forgive them) as they know' mc not." (M.Quoted in RAHMAT-AL-LIL-ALAMINA Vol 1. p. 114 by Q Md. Sulaiman.)
"Mohammed was at all times of an affectionate disposition, and even demonstratively so" (Mohammed by S.D. Margoliouth P. 70.). "In the Koran he repeatedly points out what a privilege his presence is. and how he is a proof or embodiment of God's Mercy to the world" (Ibid. P.52).
"It is a wonderful thing," observes Mr. Holland, "that Mohammed born of a fierce and war-like race, a people given to many cruel practices, should have so much regard for compassion. He thanked God who had put in men's heart to be compassionate........of all the qualities he regarded compassion as the most God-like, and every chapter of the Koran begins with this invocation, 'In the name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful'" (The Story of Mohammad P. 100).
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simple question brother, Do you know the difference between Mahayanism And Heenayanism ?
