Muhammed in Buddhist Scriptures

[ibnanv]

[FONT=Verdana,Arial]What Buddhist Scripture Says About Muhammad


[FONT=Verdana,Arial] The Buddha leader Gautama, has prophesized the coming of an inspired person. In the Gospel of Buddha by Caras (pp. 217-8) it is written that this great Buddha will come to the world known as the "Maitreya". The Cakkavatti-Sihanada Suttana gives him the name "Metteyya". Both these words mean "The Merciful One". By reference to the life-history of Muhammad (p.b.u.h.), it can be seen that he was indeed extremely merciful and the Al-Qur'an also refers to this fact. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]There are further similarities, as the Buddhist Scripture reads: "His (Maitreya) disciples will number many thousands, while mine number many hundreds". [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]It is a known fact that with Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) were thousands followers. There are further similarities, which will be elucidated below. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]In the Gospel of Buddha (by Carus - p214), an enlightened Buddah is described as having a very bright skin and that, a Buddha attains supreme insight at night time, he dies naturally at night, looks very bright before his death, and finally, after his death he ceases to exist on the earth. All these points can be applied to the holy prophet of Islam. (Read his life story). [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]In Si-Yu-Ki, Vol I, p.229, it is written that "... no words can describe the personal beauty of Maitreya". [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Again we leave it up to you to examine the history of Islam in detail; both muslims and nonmuslims are almost unanimous in asserting that Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) was very handsome and beautiful indeed. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Si-Yu-Ki Vol I. (p.229) further reads "..the exquisite voice of the Bodhisattva (Maitreya) is soft and pure and refined; those who listen can never tire, those who hear are never satiated." [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]The Arabic language is remarkable for its beauty. Furthermore, the holy Qur'an is considered a work of the highest unique literary merit by friend and foe alike. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Buddhist Scriptures have defined further characteristics of Buddha. In order to qualify for the Maitreya, he must satisfy those conditions. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]A Buddha must be a human being - not a diety. A Buddha must have five special gifts, viz. The gift of treasure, the gift of child, the gift of wife, the gift of rule (i.e. leaderhip, headstatesman) and the gift of life and limb. In addition, the Buddha would be teacherless, i.e. without any form of formal education. Gautama has also stressed that the Buddha is simply a man, salvation depends only on an individuals deeds, the Buddha can only preach - he does not have the claim of being in part supernatural. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]The characteristics above are all in accordance with the life of the Prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.). [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Another similarity which should be mentioned is that for every enlightened Buddha, there is a special "Bo-tree". Some modern commentators believe that the "Bo-tree" of the Maitreya is a tree with hard or heay wood. The prophet (p.b.u.h.) had a tree at Hodebbeyyaa, which was the place of an important treaty. The Qur'an gives the name "Shajar" to this tree (Surah 48:Verse 18). "Shejar" according to some scholars refer to any tree with a hard stem. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Again it is highly remarkable that such close similarity should exist.


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The Prophesy of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Buddhist Scriptures

1. Buddha prophesised the advent of a Maitreya:

A) Almost all Buddhist books contain this prophecy. It is in Chakkavatti Sinhnad Suttanta D. III, 76:

"There will arise in the world a Buddha named Maitreya (the benevolent one) a holy one, a supreme one, an enlightened one, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe:

"What he has realized by his own supernatural knowledge he will publish to this universe. He will preach his religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at its climax, glorious at the goal, in the spirit and the letter.

He will proclaim a religious life, wholly perfect and thoroughly pure; even as I now preach my religion and a like life do proclaim. He will keep up the society of monks numbering many thousands, even as now I keep up a society of monks numbering many hundreds".


B) According to Sacred Books of the East volume 35 pg. 225:

"It is said that I am not an only Buddha upon whom the leadership and order is dependent. After me another Buddha maitreya of such and such virtues will come. I am now the leader of hundreds; he will be the leader of thousands ."


C) "According to the Gospel of Buddha by Carus pg. 217 and 218 (From Ceylon sources):[/COLOR]

"Ananda said to the Blessed One, ‘Who shall teach us when thou art gone?'

And the Blessed one replied, 'I am not the first Buddha who came upon the earth nor shall I be the last. In due time another Buddha will arise in the world, a holy one, a supremely enlightened one, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. He will reveal to you the same eternal truths, which I have taught you. He will preach his religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at the climax and glorious at the goal. He will proclaim a religious life, wholly perfect and pure such as I now proclaim. His disciples will number many thousands while mine number many hundreds.'
Ananda said, 'How shall we know him?'

The Blessed one replied, 'He will be known as Maitreya'."


(i) The Sanskrit word ‘Maitreya’ or its equivalent in Pali ‘Metteyya’ means loving, compassionate, merciful and benevolent. It also means kindness and friendliness, sympathy, etc. One Arabic word which is equivalent to all these words is ‘Rahmat’which means mercy. In Surah Al-Anbiya:

"We sent thee not, but as a mercy for all creatures." [Al-Qur’an 21:107]

"Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was called the merciful, which is ‘Maitri’.


(ii) The words Mercy and Merciful are mentioned in the Holy Qur’an no less than 409 times.

(iii) Every chapter of the Glorious Qur’an, except Chapter 9, i.e. Surah Taubah begins with the beautiful formula, 'Bismillah Hir-Rahman Nir-Rahim', which means 'In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful'.

(iv) The Word Muhammad is also spelt as ‘Mahamet’ or ‘Mahomet’ and in various other ways in different languages. The word ‘Maho’ or ‘Maha’ in Pali and Sanskrit mean Great and Illustrious and ‘Metta’ means mercy. Therefore ‘Mahomet’ means ‘Great Mercy’.

2. Buddha’s doctrine was Esoteric and Exoteric: [/COLOR]

According to Sacred Books of the East, volume 11, pg. 36 Maha-Parinibbana Sutta chapter 2 verse 32:

"I have preached the truth without making any distinction between exoteric and esoteric doctrine, for in respect of truths, Ananda, the Tathagata has no such thing as the closed fist of a teacher, who keeps something back".

Muhammad (pbuh) on the commandment of Almighty God delivered the message and doctrine without making any distinction between esoteric and exoteric. The Qur'an was recited in public in the days of the Prophet and is being done so till date. The Prophet had strictly forbidden the Muslims from hiding the doctrine


3. Devoted Servitors of the Buddhas: [/COLOR]

According to Sacred Books of the East volume 11 pg. 97 Maha-Parinibbana Sutta Chapter 5 verse 36:

"Then the Blessed one addressed the brethren, and said, ‘Whosoever, brethren have been Arahat-Buddhas through the long ages of the past, they were servitors just as devoted to those Blessed ones as Ananda has been to me. And whosoever brethren shall be the Arahat-Buddhas of the future, there shall be servitors as devoted to those Blessed ones as Ananda has been to me’."

The Servitor of Buddha was Ananda. Muhammad (pbuh) also had a servitor by the name Anas (r.a.) who was the son of Malik. Anas (r.a...) was presented to the Prophet by his parents. Anas (r.a...) relates: "My mother said to him, 'Oh Messenger of God, here is your little servant'." Further Anas relates, "I served him from the time I was 8 years old and the Prophet called me his son and his little beloved". Anas (r.a...) stayed by the Prophet in peace and in war, in safety as well as in danger till the end of his life.


i) Anas (r.a.), even though he was only 11 years old stayed beside the Prophet during the battle of Uhud where the Prophet’s life was in great danger.

ii) Even during the battle of Honain when the Prophet was surrounded by the enemies who were archers, Anas (r.a...) who was only 16 years old stood by the Prophet.

Anas (R) can surely be compared with Ananda who stood by Gautam Buddha when the mad elephant approached him.


4. Six Criteria for Identifying Buddha: [/COLOR]

According to the Gospel of Buddha by Carus pg. 214:

"The Blessed one said, ‘There are two occasions on which a Tathagata’s appearance becomes clear and exceedingly bright. In the night Ananda, in which a Tathagata attains to the supreme and perfect insight, and in the night in which he passes finally away in that ultra passing which leaves nothing whatever of his earthly existence to remain.’ "
According to Gautam Buddha, following are the six criteria for identifying a Buddha.


i)A Buddha attains supreme and perfect insight at night-time.

ii) On the occasion of his complete enlightenment he looks exceedingly bright

iii) Buddha dies a natural death.

iv) He dies at night-time.

v) He looks exceedingly bright before his death.

vi) After his death a Buddha ceases to exist on earth.


i) Muhammad (pbuh) attained supreme insight and Prophethood at night-time.
According to Surah Dukhan:

"By the books that makes thing clear – We sent it down during a blessed night."[Al-Qur'an 44:2-3]

According to Surah Al-Qadar:
"We have indeed revealed this (message) in the night of power."[Al-Qur'an 97:1]


ii) Muhammad (pbuh) instantly felt his understanding illumined with celestial light.

iii) Muhammad (pbuh) died a natural death.

iv) According to Ayesha (r.a.), Muhammad (pbuh) expired at night-time. When he was dying there was no oil in the lamp and his wife Ayesha (r.a.) had to borrow oil for the lamp.

v) According to Anas (r.a.), Muhammad (pbuh) looked exceedingly bright in the night of his death.

vi) After the burial of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) he was never seen again in his bodily form on this earth.

5. Buddhas are only Preachers:

According to Dhammapada, Sacred Books of East volume 10 pg., 67:

"The Jathagatas (Buddhas) are only Preachers."

The Qur’an says in Surah Ghashiya:

"Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs." [Al-Qur'an 88:21-22]


6. Identification of Maitreya by Buddha:

According to Dhammapada, Mattaya Sutta, 151:

"The promised one will be:
i) Compassionate for the whole creation
ii) A messenger of peace, a peace-maker
iii) The most successful in the world.


The Maitreya as a Preacher of morals will be:

i) Truthful
ii) Self-respecting
iii) Gentle and noble
iv) Not proud
v) As a king to creatures
vi) An example to others in deeds and in words".

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“The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie”

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[tharakato]

maitree buddha will come to this world after 5000++ years of lord buddha & also lord buddha does not kill anyone or encourage anyone to kill. since last 2500 years nobody not even an animal died name of Buddhism.first understand about buddhism before talking about it. I will list some qualities of buddha. core of buddhism is to reject one Almighty god but belive many gods & become one of them or just get out of this system


ayway I listed some qualites of the lord buddha which I dont think prophet mohommad don't have. Nothing offense with your religion, its your choice. but learn before argue about it

there are qualities in the Lord buddha (1) Accomplished, (2) Perfectly Enlightened, (3) Endowed with knowledge and Conduct or Practice, (4) Well-gone or Well-
spoken, (5) the Knower of worlds, (6) the Guide Unsurpassed of men to be tamed, (7) the Teacher of gods and men, (8) Enlightened, and (9) Blessed.

(1) The Accomplished One (Arahan)

According to Visuddhimagga-Atthakatha, Arahan (Accomplished) has five definitions. The Blessed One is accomplished for the following reasons: 1. because He is far away from all internal conflicts (Arahan), 2-3. because He destroyed the defilement -- enemies and all the wheel’s spokes (Ara-han), 4. because He is worthy of
requisites (Arahan), and 5. because He is devoid of secret evil-doing (A-rahan). (The beginningless round of rebirths is called the wheel of the round of rebirths.)

(2) The Perfectly Enlightened One (Sammasambuddho)

The Lord Buddha is the Perfectly Enlightened One because He has known all things rightly by Himself. In fact, He has of Himself known all the things, knowable things as knowable, comprehensible things as comprehensible, removable things as removable, realizable things as realizable,and things that may be developed as such.

(3) The Endowed One with Knowledge and Conduct ( Vijjacaranaasampanno)

The Lord Buddha is One who is endowed with three or eight kinds of knowledge and fifteen kinds of conduct.

“Vijja” means (higher) knowledge and “Carana”, good conduct (practice) that guides to a noble disciple and sends him towards the deathless.

There are “Three Kinds of Knowledge”
1. The knowledge that the Buddha recollects His past lives,
2. the knowledge capable of seeing the decease and rebirth of beings, and
3. the knowledge capable of eradicating defilements.

There are “Eight Kinds of Knowledge”
1. The knowledge or ability of attaining insight (With this knowledge, He knows, “my body is material, made from four great elements, born of mother and father, fed on rice and gruel, impermanent, liable to be injured and abraded, broken and destroyed, and this is my consciousness which is bound to it and dependent on it.”),
2. the knowledge of the production of a mind-made body, or the supernormal power of the mind-made body (With this knowledge, out of this body He produces another body, having a form, mind-made, complete in all its limbs and faculities.),
3. the various supernormal powers (With the super-normal powers, being one, He becomes many, and being many, He becomes one; He appears and disappears; He passes through fences, walls, and mountains unhindered as if through air; He sinks into the ground and emerges from it as if it were water; He walks on the water
without breaking the surface as if on land; He flies cross-legged through the air like a bird with wings; He even touches and strokes with His hand the sun and moon, mighty and powerful as they are, and He travels in the body as far as the Brahma world.),
4. the divine ear (With the divine ear, He hears sounds both divine and human, whether far or near.),
5. the knowledge of others’ minds [understanding the ways of others’ thought] (With this knowledge, He knows and distinguishes with His mind the minds of other beings.),
6. the knowledge of previous existences [the remembrance of one’s former states of existence] (With this knowledge, He remembers many previous existences: one birth, two births,. . . . a hundred thusand births etc.),
7. the divine eye or the knowledge of the passing-away and arising of beings (With this divine eye, He sees beings passing-away and arising, inferior and superior, well-favored and ill-favored, to happy and unhappy destinations as kamma directs them.), and
8. the knowledge of eradicating defilements (With mind concentrated, purified and cleansed, unblemished, free from impurities, malleable, workable, established and having gained imperturability, He applies and directs his mind to the knowledge of eradicating defilements or destruction of corruptions. With this knowledge, He
knows as it really is: “This is suffering, the origing of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering.)
(Dighanikaya, Vol.1,Samathaphala Sutta)

The Fifteen kinds of the Good Conducts are as follows:
1. Restraint by virtue (moral restraint),
2. Guarding the doors of the sense faculties (Watching over the sense-doors),
3. Moderation in eating,
4. Watchfulness,
5. Faith,
6. Shame of wrong-doing,
7. Fear of wrong-doing,
8. Great learning,
9. Energy,
10. Mindfulness,
11. Wisdom, and
12-15. Four Jhanas of the fine material sphere.

( 4) The Well-gone One or The Well-spoken One ( Sugata)

The term “Sugata” has two definitions:
1. One who has gone to the deathless, Nibbana and
2. One who speaks rightly, (It means that the Lord Buddha speaks only fitting speech in the fitting place).

The Six kinds of Speech

The Six Kinds of Speech are as follows:
1. The first one which is untrue, incorrect, and unbeneficial, and unwelcome and disagreeable to others,
2. the second which is true and correct, but unbeneficial, and unwelcome and disagreeable to others,
3. the third which is true, correct, and beneficial, but unwelcome and disagreeable to others,
4. the fourth which is untrue, incorrect, and unbeneficial, but welcome and agreeable to others,
5. the fifth which is true and correct but unbeneficial, and welcome and agreeable to others, and
6. the sixth which is true and correct, and beneficial, and welcome and agreeable to others.

Of them, only the third and sixth are the two kinds of speech that the Lord Buddha speaks because those are true, correct, and beneficial. (Majjhi-manikaya, Vol. 2, Abhayaraja-kumara Sutta)


(5) The Knower of the Worlds ( Lokavidu)

The Buddha is the Knower of Worlds because He has known the world in all ways.
There are Three Kinds of World:
1.The world of formations (Sankaraloka),
2. The world of beings (Sattaloka),
3. The world of location (Okasaloka).

(6) The Incomparable Leader of men to be Tamed (Anuttaro purisadammasarathi)

The Buddha surpasses the whole world in the special qualities of virtue, concentration, understanding, deliverance, and knowledge and vision of deliverance, so He is the Incomparable Leader (Master) of men to be tamed.

(7) The Teacher of Celestial and Human Beings (Sattha devamanussanan)

It is usual for religious masters to seek advice or teaching from the deities or gods, but this would never happen in the case of the Buddha. The deities are also beings caught in the round of rebirths because they could not find the way out of it. The Buddha did not seek counsel from human beings either, and relied solely on His knowledge of the Dhamma. On the other hand, deities and human beings merely come to Him for counsel or advice and teaching, thus He is the teacher of them.

(8) The Enlightened One (Buddho)

The Lord has discovered the Four Noble Truths by Himself and awakened others to them, thus He is enlightened.

The Four Noble Truths that He has discovered are:
(1) the truth of suffering,
(2) the truth of the cause of suffering,
(3) the truth of the cessation of suffering, and
(4) the truth of the way leading to the cessation of suffering.

(9) The Blessed One (Bhagava)

The Buddha is endowed with the six things:
(1) Lordship [Issariya],
(2) Doctrine [Dhamma],
(3) Fame [Yasa],
(4) Glory [Siri],
(5) Wish [Kama], and
(6) Endeavor [Payatta],
thus He is called the Blessed One.

1). He has the supreme lordship over His own mind as follows:
i. Anima – power to make the body minute (e.g. making the size of an atom),
ii. Laghima – power to make the body light (e.g. walking on air),
iii. Mahima – power to make the body huge,
iv. Patti – power to arrive where He wants to go,
v. Pakamma – power to produce what He wants by resolving, etc.,
vi. Isita – power to make anyone or anything follow His wishes,
vii. Vasita – power to create at will water, fire, etc., and
viii. Yatthakamavasayita – power to attain the perfection in all ways in Him who wants to go through the air or do anything else of the sort.
2). He has the supramundane Dhamma.
3). He has the greatly pure fame, spread through the three worlds, attained through the quality of veracity.
4). He has the glory of all limbs, perfect in every appearance, which is capable of comforting the eyes of people eager to see His material body.
5). He has the wish i.e., accomplishment of whatever is wanted by Him whether it be for His own benefit or for another’s (others’).
6). And He has the endeavor, the right effort, which is the reason why the whole world reveres Him.

The Benefits of Recollecting the Special Qualities of the Buddha

As long as someone recollects the Buddha’s special qualities, his mind is not invaded either by greed, hate or delusion. His mind is quite upright with the Buddha as object. And by absence of the invasion of greed, etc., his mind faces the subject of meditation with rectitude; then his applied and sustained thoughts occur with a tendency towards the special qualities of the Buddha. When he continually practices the applied and sustained thoughts upon the Buddha’s special qualities, happiness arises in him. And then with his mind happy, his bodily disturbance and mental disturbance are tranquillized by tranquillity which has happiness as proximate cause. When they have been tranquillized, bodily bliss and mental bliss arise in him. When he is blissful, his mind, with the Buddha’s special qualities as
its object, becomes concentrated, thus the Jhana factors eventually arise in a single moment. But because of the profundity of the Buddha’s special qualities, or because of being occupied in recollecting special qualities of many kinds, the Jhana is only access and does not reach absorption (Appana). In addition, when a monk recollects the Buddha’s special qualities, he is respectful and deferential towards the Buddha. He attains an abundance of faith, of mindfulness, of understanding, and of merit. He has much happiness and gladness. He overcomes fear and dread. He is also able to bear pain. He comes to feel as if he were living in the Buddha’s presence. And his body, when the recollection of the Buddha’s special qualities dwells in it, becomes as worthy of veneration as a shrine room. His mind tends towards the stage of the Buddhas. When he encounters an opportunity for transgression, he has awareness of conscience and shame as vivid as though
he were face to face with the Buddha. Besides, if he penetrates no higher, he will be at least destined to be born in a happy state. (THE PATH OF PURIFICATION – VISUDDHIMAGGA, 229-230)

The Ten Wisdom-powers of the Buddha

The Ten Wisdom-powers of the Buddha are as followings:

1. Thanathanakosallanana= Understanding as it truly is the possible as possible and the impossible as impossible,
2. Kammavipaka nana = Understanding as it truly is the results of actions (kammas) undertaken, past, future, and present, with possibilities and with causes,
3. Sabbatthagamina patipada nana = Understanding as it truly is the ways leading to all destinations (all the states of existence and Nibbana),
4. Anekadhatu nanadhatu nanaa = Understanding as it truly is the world with its many and different elements,
5. Nanadhimuttikatanana = Understanding as it truly is how beings have different inclinations,
6.Indriyaparopariyattanana = Understanding as it truly is the disposition of the faculties of other beings, other persons,
7. Jhanadisankilitthavodanavutthananana = Understanding as it truly is the defilement, the cleansing and the emergence in regard to the Jhanas, liberations, concentrations, and attainments,
8.Pubbenivasanussatinanaa = Recollecting His mindfold past lives,
9.Cutupapatanana (Dibbacakkhunana )= (With the divine eye which is purified and surpasses the human, seeing beings passing away and reappearing, inferior and superior, fair and ugly, fortune and unfortune), Understanding how beings pass on according to their kammas, and
10. Esavakkhayanana = Realizing for Himself with direct knowledge, here and now entering upon and abiding in the deliverance of mind and deliverance by wisdom that are taintless with the destruction of the taints. (Majjhimanikaya, Mulapannasa, Mahasahanada Sutta)

 

[KeyGen]

You can try and equalize names and their meanings but you can never compare a Lord Buddha to a prophet.

 

[ex-muslim Ahmed]

Can Mommaed be the Maithriya buddha?

What a big joke! These idiots from Islamic background are great nut jobs.

see what Mohammed did to innocent Uraina Tribe

Narrated Abu Qilaba: "Anas said, "Some people of 'Ukl or 'Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine . So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in 'Al-Harra' and when they asked for water, no water was given to them." Abu Qilaba said, "Those people committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah and His Apostle . (Sahih Bukhari, Ablutions (Wudu'), Volume 1, Book 4, Number 234)"