Every religion teaches tolerance about other religions. Evidence lies in more or less peaceful coexistence of various religious groups. All followers don't get it because of sectarianism, religious chauvinism and bad politics as well. Latest teaching (by Ramakrisna) is: you can follow any route to reach your God.
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Mushtafiz Said: "It is only those who wanted a god who could be seen, touched, moved, painted, dressed up etc. who rejected him; as did the followers of Moses (they created a statue of a cow in gold in his absence) and many others."
This is the problem with people, like you. You do not understand any other religious practices. Everybody believes that he/she is right. No one knows who is right. I can tell you that - every one prays to Allah; none of these people has rejected Him. You think you own Him; you don't. He also likes those who want to touch Him through His mock images. They want to dress Him up, as they wish. They want to put makeup on Him, as they wish. They do all these because they love Him that much. Get this idea out of your head that Allah likes you more than them. You haven't done anything so special for Him that you deserve such a special treatment.
Most people believe in Allah in their own way. I don't have explanation for everything, I see around me. So, I believe in a creator in my own way. I do not have to follow your way for that matter. Why should I follow somebody else's way – when he/she does not know, for sure, what the right way is? If you have a concrete proof that your way is the right-way and my way is the wrong-way, come back to me; I will follow your way. Until then – get the thought out of your mind that others have rejected Him. You are just parroting someone else's thought. That's what you were told to believe. I was told to believe many things also. I follow only things that I judge myself to be right. I am an independent thinker; Allah did not make me a lamb to follow another lead lamb. That's how I think of myself.
Jiten Roy
--- On Mon, 2/6/12, MUSTAFIZUR RAHMAN <mustafiz84@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: MUSTAFIZUR RAHMAN <mustafiz84@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] How to follow religions correctly
To: "Mukto-mona Mukto-mona" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, February 6, 2012, 8:45 AM
I hope you agree with me on one fact that science has not yet been able to make anything by which one can dream as he wants to. If the dream is pleasant, we call it pleasant dream; if otherwise, it is labelled as nightmare. Semantics is not the issue here. But who induces these dreams? Man has been dreaming since his creation. People have been shown a solution to their problem through dreams. Shankar Jaikeshan hit upon the lyrics of that classic song (Mandole - nagin) in his dream while he spent the whole day trying to find one when awake. But WHO sends these dreams? And what about the messages that come through these dreams? Is no one responsible for it? Yes there is one. Not rocket scientists, nor medical experts of today. But ALLAH. He has sent, and still sends messages, solutions, warnings etc. through dreams. If you believe that much, you are among the FAITHFUL ones, if not then there are many other names for that!!FAITH is blind in certain aspects. When the Prophet of Islam asked his followers to believe in that unseen BEING, he demanded reposing BLIND FAITH in Allah. It is only those who wanted a god who could be seen, touched, moved, painted, dressed up etc. who rejected him; as did the followers of Moses (they created a statue of a cow in gold in his absence) and many others. Even science will tell you to believe in things which cannot be seen, touched, moved, painted, dressed up etc. BUT are out there!! Reject them at your peril.
Mustafizur Rahman
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: jnrsr53@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 08:38:39 -0800
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] How to follow religions correctly
M. Rahman said - "The very first condition to become a Muslim is to have unquestionable FAITH in that unseen being called ALLAH. The rest emanates from that faith."The story you cited about "Caliph Harun al Rashid" implies that you should believe in every unforeseen incident that happens in your life, because you do not know what Allah will do test your faith. And also you should believe in all your dreams you have ever seen. That's what blind-faith all about is.Do you want to know how I will interprete the Caliph's dream? He felt guilty and he was worried about the fact that the beggar might have come from Allah to test him, and he may have failed Allah. The consequence of his guilt and fear resulted into a nightmare.Jiten RoyFrom: MUSTAFIZUR RAHMAN <mustafiz84@hotmail.com>
To: Mukto-mona Mukto-mona <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2012 2:53 AM
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] How to follow religions correctly
" - - - trying to push rationality into people - - - , " - - - they are amenable to improve and come out into the world of liberated minds." Here is the problem. When you think that you are rational and those who profess faith in Islam are not, that you have ' liberated minds', others don't. Isn't it how one tries to claim that ' I am better than thou'? Let me give you a simple example of faith. The story goes like this that once caliph Harun al Rashid was going with his wife Zubaidah in a caravan. After a bend, a beggar looking man stopped them. The caliph was annoyed when the beggar asked, 'Will you buy the paradise, then give me a coin?' He wanted to do away with the man when his wife intervened and asked that the beggar be given a coin and no harm done. They then went on, the incident forgotten. The next morning the caliph woke up sweating and out of breath. Zubaidah asked the reason. The caliph said that he dreamt that they had died. And Zubaidah was in the paradise while he was burning in hell. He sent for that beggar but never found him.Now that story may be concocted. That is not important here. The moot thing is your FAITH. Here Zubaidah had firm faith in the hereafter. So she thought whats the harm in paying a coin if it can get me in to paradise. Her husband probably was more 'rational' as you put it. He probably had an ' amenable liberated mind'. So Islam is all about faith. The very first condition to become a Muslim is to have unquestionable FAITH in that unseen being called ALLAH. The rest emanates from that faith. The faithless will obviously make fun of it, claiming themselves more learned, liberal minded, rational etc. etc. But the fact remains that all of us will die. Our soul will get separated from the body. What is done to the body does't matter. What matters is what happens to the soul?Mustafizur Rahman
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: subain1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 07:02:53 -0800
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] How to follow religions correctly
I agree with Dr. Das, there is no point in trying to push rationality into people that are too much inside their cocoon of religion. But I believe a lot of people who identify themselves in terms of religions are actually not too religious; they are amenable to improve and come out into the world of liberated minds.I also think that people who found new incarnations of God in humans like Ramkrishna are as stupid as people who found messengers of God many centuries back. However, I am willing to tolerate the idiocies of religions as long as they do not translate into hatred and injustice. In that respect, the followers of Ramkrishna and Buddha are better than the followers of the abrahamic religions. Although the contemporary Christians are a lot more moderate, less into their religious enclosure, and do talk about peace on earth (as opposed to peace for the Christians).Sukhamaya BainFrom: Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] How to follow religions correctly
When someone says, his religion is 'perfect for me', I would spare him from criticism and would also not take his judgement as final on any issue for any reason. Buddha used to say, "Judge everything, even if I said it." Seeing what the Buddhists have done to Buddha by making him a God, it is easy to see what followers of other religions have done to their preachers. For example, the Ramakrishna Mission has invented a new heaven called Ramakrishna Loke reserved for the deceased members of the mission. A few decades ago, they demanded to the Government of India that they be treated as a minority religion separate from Hinduism. The children of Abraham are not as audacious. They did not forget their root so soon.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com> wrote:
So, there was no response to my question from any other Muslim but Mr. Q. A. Rahman. The question was, "is it enough for a civilized world to treat the slaves fairly, to consider freeing a slave to be good deed, and to provide some rewards for freeing a slave?" It would have been refreshing to hear from genuinely religious Muslims something like "the reality of the sixth century did not allow Mohammad or Islam to abolish slavery, but their way of treating slaves was very progressive at that time; over a period of 1400 years we could certainly extrapolate that
