gaffo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:45 pm
gaffo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 3:44 am
now if we only had a couple of Hindus too ;-/. oh well.
Averroes wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:55 am
Well, that's not really a problem when I am here! By the mercy of our Creator, the Most Merciful, I can talk about Hinduism too. I am a one man team!
All praises and thanks are due to Allah, the Most Generous. Just tell me where to start or what you want to know and if Allah wills, I will inform or discuss with you about it.
interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - internet is a place for anonimnity(sp) - but your above now has me curious about you as a person - you imply you know about Hinuism, and only latter learned Arabic (reading the Koran in "English" (there must be a Koran in Hindi? - yes surely).
you an English Indian? - born from Hindu parents converted to Islam?
-------not need to answer Sir - it is none of my business - but would welcome knowing more about you since your above reply got me interested.
Well, you are absolutely right on one point at least, namely that it is absolutely none of your business whatsoever. However, you are raising a subject that I would like to comment on, so I have decided to satisfy your curiosity!
So to the question: "Am I an English Indian?"; I answer: I am not an Indian, and neither am I from India nor have I ever been to India. And for all that, I thank Allah, the Almighty for having spared me that kind of trial. If anyone is not in or from India, I advise you to thank your Creator, the All-Wise as well.
As you all might already know from the news, minorities such as Christians and Muslims are actually being greatly persecuted in India by the extremist Hindus such as for example the RSS movement. From some trustworthy sources, I have learned that they are even reading the Mein Kamph of Hitler to get inspired of how to rid India of non-Hindus. And the actual Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi is himself a member of that organization through his right-wing party the BJP. And indeed Narendra Modi is himself a Hindu-supremacist who endorses persecution of Muslims and Christians in India. It is well-known to everyone who follows the international news that India has fallen even deeper into savagery since Narendra Modi came to power. These “cows and monkey worshipers” were already savages but now their savagery has exceeded all bounds. Anti-Muslim bigotry has been normalized in India under Modi. Muslims are being lynched by Hindu extremist mobs under rumors of eating beef!! Christian nuns are being raped and Christian priests beaten.
As you also might already know, in many states in India at present, it is prohibited to eat beef/cows. These beef prohibition laws are the consequences of Modi’s mandate. Modi and extremist Hindus like him have the objective which is captured in their ideology “Hindutva” meaning something like “India for Hindu only.”
It is a very difficult situation that Christians and Muslims are living in India actually. Let me give you some examples of the barbarity and savagery of these “cow and monkey worshipers”.
1. A 71 year old Christian nun raped in her convent! :
https://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/14/asia ... index.html
2. A 48 year old Christian nun raped and the perpetrators were acquitted:
https://cruxnow.com/global-church/2017/ ... rape-case/
3. A Muslim man suspected of eating beef killed in India by “cow protectors”:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... protectors
And there are a lot lot more like this. I have seen on YouTube a Christian priest getting beaten with sticks by some 5-6 people. Still on YouTube, I have seen young Muslim men being tied, slapped, kicked and urinated over for being suspected of eating or selling beef. Many are killed just for being suspected of eating or selling beef. On YouTube one can find a lot of these atrocities against the minorities in India. I have to warn that there are many of such videos which are very disturbing. And all these crimes against the minorities are overlooked if not even encouraged by the actual government of India under Narendra Modi.
And as one would think that these savages could not stoop lower than that, then one finds that this is just the tip of the iceberg! Indeed, these idol worshipers are even more barbaric than that. They treat their cows better than their own women over there! Women are treated worse than animals in India. They do not make a difference between a toddler and an old women; every
female is at risk in India. The world has already known and was greatly shocked by the gang rape of a young Hindu girl on a bus in India in broad daylight some years ago. But the practice of gang raping of little girls and toddlers is a tradition well-entrenched in India! Check the following to witness the depth of their barbarism:
1. Toddler and five year old gang raped in India. (17 October 2015)
Site, an article from The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 97816.html
2. 14 year old girl raped by army personnel gang. (29 Dec 2015)
Site:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 89501.html
3. 7 year old girl raped and murdered by Hindu neighbor. (9 February 2017)
Site:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/ ... 78--1.html
4. 22 month old raped by a 45 year old Hindu man. (May 7, 2017)
Warning: The following link is from Dailymail online. The article provides photos of the toddler. Those with heart conditions are highly advised to NOT click the link and watch. It is just too heart breaking.
Site:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... India.html
And this is just a very small sample of what happens in the barbaric country known as India. It is reported that in 2015, there were about 34,651 women rape cases reported in India, but experts says that this figure greatly underestimate the gravity of the situation in India as many more rape cases are not reported due to the victims fearing negative judgment of their people. The number of reported rape cases has risen by 50% in the last five years in India.
And as I already mentioned, the most known and brutal rape, which was covered by international media, occurred in New Delhi in 2012. The victim of the rape was a young medical student who was gang raped on a public bus, beaten, tortured, and then left to die!!!
As everyone can witness for themselves: the Hindus abandoned God, the Almighty and instead they chose to worship cows, monkeys, elephants, rats and whatnot and as a result they became much more worse than animals.
Allah, the All-Knowing says in the Holy Quran, interpretation of meaning:
- And be not like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves. Those are the defiantly disobedient. [Quran 59:19]
Now, what you were truly inquiring in your post by asking me if I an English Indian is as follows: How come that I know of all this? Well, the answer is quite simple and I already gave you some hints in my previous posts: I read and study a lot! And this, as I had explained, is due to my reading and pondering of the Holy Quran. When I embraced Islam, as I said, it was as if my then modest and limited intellectual abilities were multiplied by many folds. And as I already said, now it is as if I am a one man team!
- O you who have believed, if you fear Allah, He will grant you a criterion and will remove from you your misdeeds and forgive you. And Allah is the possessor of great bounty. [Quran, interpretation of meaning 8:29]
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gaffo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:45 pm
BTW - since you seem to know much about Hinduism - which i know very little being an American (but more than most Americans - know about the 7 incarnations of God as his Sons - Ramma, Krishna, and the 5 others - the name i know not (do any Hindus know their names?).
You say that being an American is the reason that you do not know about other cultures such as the Hindus. I quite understand that. But if you were in Islam, there would be many things which would then arouse your interest. This is not just the case for me but for many other people who embraced Islam from being raised in another religion. For example, you might be interested to learn that the second most prolific Islamic preacher in the world today is himself a convert from Christianity and he is from the USA! His name is Sheik Yusuf Estes. “Sheik” is a title, for example like “Dr”; it means Yusuf Estes is now an Islamic scholar. Indeed, many thousands of non-Muslims (many of them Americans) have embraced Islam by the invitation of Sheik Estes. He even has YouTube videos where he is teaching Quranic Arabic. And there are other Americans who had a similar experience when embracing Islam. Hamza Yusuf is another such American who embraced Islam from Christianity, and now he is the co-founder of an educational institution called the Zaytuna College in California.
In the following video you can see Sheik Yusuf Estes with sister Lucy who is embracing Islam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RA05mwKZe8
I just re-watched this video. I already said this before on the forum, but I will say it again: for the sake of Allah, I love Sheik Yusuf Estes.
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gaffo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:45 pmI know of the Mahabbaratta(sp), and Rammananna(sp) - hindu texts, i think the Bagivad Gita is part of the former?
welcome clarification on these matters.
Alright. Don’t worry, if Allah wills, I will share my knowledge with you. Just give me some time as there are many things to cover.