sI,m a muslim but i love to know about many religions.\ncan u tell me some fast informations about hinduism!\nThank u\n~peace
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Hinduism:\n\nbelief in one God...called Brahman in the Upanishads...but can be called by any name and take any form, but is nameless and formless also. The entire universe manifested (came out of) Brahman. Brahman is infinite.\n\nMany Hindus use images of aspects of God...these are called murtis...to help focus their mind on God...these images also have names associated with them (the names are usually more like titles....consider the name Krishna means 'dark skinned' and Ganesh means 'first lord' or 'lord of celestial forces', etc, etc). Hindus worship God through the murtis...meaning they aren't actually worshipping the murti itself (they know it has no real power). To give an example. God is like an electrical current and the murti is like the outlet in your home that you plug your appliances into that allow your appliance to connect to the electrical current). \n\nGod is all genders and also genderless (It, He, She are all okay terms to refer to God). \n\nIt's the world's oldest religion. The Rig Veda (the oldest sacred text in the world...and one of four Vedas which are only a small handful of the sacred texts in Hinduism) was first written down in 5000BCE. The word Veda in Sanskrit (the ancient and now sacred language of Hinduism) means Knowledge. \n\nHindus believe that since there is only one God and that since this God is really nameless and formless, but that this God has made it clear that humans are to approach as they are able (and can use whatever name or form that works for them if they need a name or form at all) then that means that all other religions are therefore also simply approaches to the one God.....and whatever name they call God by is just another name for the one God...and whatever form they give it is merely just another form.\n\n(also it should be noted that most murtis actually have 108 names...that means that Ganesh has 108 names including Ganesh...there's astrological reason for this).\n\nThe murtis have lots of symbolism that remind the person using it (because it is a tool) of certain things. For example: Ganesh has an elephant head. This reminds us that God removes obstacles in our life. Ganesh rides a mouse. The mouse represents our ego, and Ganesh riding the mouse symbolizes letting God have control and guiding us. Ganesh has four arms. In one arm he holds a rope. The rope symbolizes God helping us in our spiritual journey. He carries an axe in another hand. The axe symbolizes God cutting away our attachments (especially to illusions). He holds a tray of sweets in another. This symbolizes the rewards of spiritual life. The last hand is empty but makes a hand gesture (mudra) that symbolizes blessings. Thus God blesses is what this is symbolizing.
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Mostly there are Hindus. Muslims come next. Buddishts are next, and Christians are last. Look up each of these religions to understand what they believe.
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Christianity, Buddhism, Muslim, Jewish, Wicca, Paganism, Hinduism, Scientology, Mormonism, I continually study religion, it is one of my great passions. You can't have a good conversation on religion unless you know what the person you are talking to is talking about.
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Glad to answer you, \nTo know about Islam please visit those sites:\nhttp://www.discoverislam.com/\nhttp://www.islamhouse.org/en/index.php\nhttp://www.islam-qa.com/\nhttp://www.todayislam.com/\nhttp://www.islamic-message.net\nhttp://thetruereligion.org/modules/news/\n\nWhat we eat ,we eat nearly every thing except few things you could know about them from here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halaal\n\nWhat we believe in mainly we believe in God as the creator of every thing, Mohamed was the last prophet of god,And that the Qu'ran is our holy book and to know more about it: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam#Beliefs\n\nFor what we wear,For men there' no problem with any thing, for women, we wear Hejab, and it's just a scarf which covers the hair, and any cloth which covers the whole body except face and hands and these clothe shouldn't describe the body, to know more about it:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejab\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_clothing\n\nWe celebrate with 2 main holidays " Eid El Fetr And Eid El Adha" To know about them and their meanings:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_holidays\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Adha\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan\n\n Hope this could be useful to you, and please ask for any thing else if you want and add it as additional details.
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That isnt true, hinduism originated in india but now hinduism is all over the world.
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Little knowledge is dangerous. You are its best example. You have no shame to take an Id by a Hindu God and then condemn and ridicule your own Gods. It is better to be a good Muslim than to be a bad Hindu in Hindustan.
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I'm a muslim , and I'm here for you if you want to know anything about Islam.\nwhether you are a muslim or not you are welcome to ask at any time and I'll do my best to give you the correct answer
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Well There are some Hindus and Buddhists on net and on YA too. Myself for one.\n\nSeeing that Christianity and Islam have more followers than Hindus . Secondly the the YA has more christian countries in this forum. So naturally the participation of Hindus and Buddhists lessens.\n\nMany discussions are thoroughly related with Abrahmic religions. Christians, Muslims and Jews can answer each others question because of many common concepts.\n\nAnd lastly Hindus and Buddhists do not answer questions in which they have no real input to give. They do not proselytise and so restrain from unnessary religious speeches.That is more of western thing to jump in questions they do not know about but just to say that it is stupid and false and satanic or what not.
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The Hindu religion is base on:\n\nUpanishads.\n\nVedas.\n\n............\n\nThey have three Main God, that were created by God.\n\nShiva.\nVishnu.\nBrahma.\n\nThey have 1001 name for their Gods.\n\nGreek and Romans also had many Gods.\n\nVishnu is a preserver of universe.\nShiva is a destructer of Evil and protector of good.\nBrahma is a Creator of this earth and things in it.\n\nAll other gods are just the Avatar or reincarnation of mainly Vishnu or Shiva.\n\nThe deference between the Christianity and the Hindu is, in your religion God sends his only son, to earth. The Hindu believe that from time to time Vishnu or Shiva were send to this earth or they decided to visit the earth to create order of a kind. They took the shape or form or Avatar of Rama(Vishnu) or Krishna(Shiva). These are the two main Avatar of the the God.\n\nIf you ask any Hindu he may have slightly different twist on the events. But most will have same gereral info, along the above line of thinking and some will disagree completely.\n**************************************************************\nMy answer is based on my interpretation of the Q?, If you did not get the Q? answered please do re-phase it and I will try and answer it or others will.\n******************************************************************\nThis is for the people who have grilled you over, for your, English.\n\nMost of the people who write poor English, are attempting to write a foreign language for the first time. They are like baby learning to speak, but they have to write in this forum, so we should give them credit for trying. \n\nOnly way you can learn and master the language is to try, so please do not give up.\n\nBy all means correct them, instruct them, but do not discourage them with harsh comments.\n\nExample: (this was one of the "q?" from a second grader).\n\nMy 'grandpa' told me that does'nt disclose u r secret with any females why? please give me explanation for it\n\nYou should have broken this up in to small manageable sentences.\n\nMy 'grandpa' told me that, do not disclose your secret to any female. Can you please explain me why?\n\nDo you understand it batter? First thing I did was to type this in word. In word you can check spellings and grammar. Then I took it to the answer block.\n\nOn the top right corner, there is a "Check spelling" you can use that too, but it will not correct grammar.
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I a Muslim \nGot to this website and you will know.\nwww.islam-guide.com
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CONCEPT OF GOD IN HINDUISM\nby Dr. Zakir Naik\n \n1.   \nCommon Concept of God in Hinduism:\n \n Hinduism is commonly perceived as a polytheistic religion. Indeed, most Hindus would attest to this, by professing belief in multiple Gods. While some Hindus believe in the existence of three gods, some believe in thousands of gods, and some others in thirty three crore i.e. 330 million Gods. However, learned Hindus, who are well versed in their scriptures, insist that a Hindu should believe in and worship only one God.\n\nThe major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim perception of God is the common Hindus’ belief in the philosophy of Pantheism. Pantheism considers everything, living and non-living, to be Divine and Sacred. The common Hindu, therefore, considers everything as God. He considers the trees as God, the sun as God, the moon as God, the monkey as God, the snake as God and even human beings as manifestations of God!\n\nIslam, on the contrary, exhorts man to consider himself and his surroundings as examples of Divine Creation rather than as divinity itself. Muslims therefore believe that everything is God’s i.e. the word ‘God’ with an apostrophe ‘s’. In other words the Muslims believe that everything belongs to God. The trees belong to God, the sun belongs to God, the moon belongs to God, the monkey belongs to God, the snake belongs to God, the human beings belong to God and everything in this universe belongs to God.\n\nThus the major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim beliefs is the difference of the apostrophe ‘s’. The Hindu says everything is God. The Muslim says everything is God’s.\n \n \n2.   \n  \nConcept of God according to Hindu Scriptures:\n \n We can gain a better understanding of the concept of God in Hinduism by analysing Hindu scriptures. \n\nBHAGAVAD GITA\n\nThe most popular amongst all the Hindu scriptures is the Bhagavad Gita. \n\nConsider the following verse from the Gita:\n\n"Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures."\n                   [Bhagavad Gita 7:20]\n\nThe Gita states that people who are materialistic worship demigods i.e. ‘gods’ besides the True God.\n \n \nUPANISHADS:\n\nThe Upanishads are considered sacred scriptures by the Hindus. \n\nThe following verses from the Upanishads refer to the Concept of God:\n\n"Ekam evadvitiyam"\n"He is One only without a second."\n        [Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]1\n\n"Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah."\n"Of Him there are neither parents nor lord."\n         [Svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9]2\n\n"Na tasya pratima asti"\n"There is no likeness of Him."\n        [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19]3\n\nThe following verses from the Upanishad allude to the inability of man to imagine God in a particular form:\n\n"Na samdrse tisthati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam."\n\n"His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye."\n        [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]4\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n1[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 447 and 448]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 1 ‘The Upanishads part I’ page 93]\n\n2[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 745]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 15, ‘The Upanishads part II’ page 263.]\n\n3[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 736 & 737]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 15, ‘The Upanishads part II’ page no 253]\n\n4[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 737]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 15, ‘The Upanishads part II’ page no 253]\n \n \n \n  \n\nTHE VEDAS\nVedas are considered the most sacred of all the Hindu scriptures. There are four principal Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samveda and Atharvaveda.\n\n\n \n Yajurveda\nThe follow
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I believe Hinduism is true because a lot of it makes sense to me. \n\nBut even if it weren't I would still embrace it for its nonviolence, compassion, and tolerance.
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In the name of Allah most gracious most merciful, I'll try my best to help you if u r really interested in Islam.\nFirst of all I'm Muslim because Islam has provided me the internal peace I'm searching for, In Islam I've found the unity of all Muslims in alot of occasions for example the times of prayers when u see alot these Muslims (not all of them due to lack of their faith) doing the same moves and asking the only God, renweing their faith five times a day through the whole day, especially Al-Fajr prayers when u wake up from your bed and go to make wodoo2 by washing your limbs and head with water then going in your path towards the mosque (if it was accessible or close to you) or towards the place where u do ur prayers and in the silence of the surroundings making the dialogue with your only God.\nI've found their unity in yearl pilgrimage (called hajj) to Makka from different spots of the earth having one target which is pleasing the true king of everything.\n\nI've beleived in Islam while i found it's talking to your mind and soul and guiding you to how to live peacefully with others and how to deal with all your problems.\n\nI've beleived in Islam while it has solved many of my daily problems and even fllowing it's commands made me a better person by the testaments of other people knowing me.\n\nI've beleived in islam while it dealt with other religions peacefully and has granted them free will to deal with their religions whether it was.\n\nI've beleived in Islam while it has been based on what humans can do not miracles, miracles have never been introduced in islam except when it was so necessary and in situations which will not face a normal(not a prophet) person ever.\n\nI beleived in islam while it treats my mother and father nicely and gave rights to women as far as they demand and more.\n\nI beleived in islam while u r in direct contact with God and not needing anyone or anything in between you.\n\nI beleived in Islam while I've found it's prophet telling about things which was far futuristic than his era and have been fullfilled as he said and will be fullfilled as he said.\n\nI beleived in Islam while when I read Quran I feel it's like a heavenly words coming through my spirit.\n\nI beleived in islam while it makes me manage my life easier than I could do.\n\nI beleived in islam while it made me respect myself as a human and gave me the right way to establish a successfull person.\n\nI beleived in it while I've talked to many christians and Buddhists, infidels and read about judaism but they never gave me the answer which can make me have peace with myself.\n\nThe greeting of islam is Peace be upon You so how come it calls for war and terrorism.\n\nIslam makes me clean, tidy, relaxed, thoughfull, considerate and trustfull.\n\nIslam means (maybe I'm not so good in English) providing yourself to your God.\n\nI've a special Doaa(asking God) which whenever I use it never fails.\n\nIslam deals with me by discussion of matters not by faith without reasons, there're ofcorse things which have to be beleived but it has reasons why should u beleive in.\n\nIslam has dealt with me as a normal human not burdening me without care.\n\nI hope i can talk more but I'm not a scholar anyway, u coudl email me on my add.: ahmedeldeeb@yahoo.com and I'll send you some links, books and even will try to get you to some place where u can learn about Islam if u really want it and will Inshaa Allah(God willing) try to provide you with the nearest place that could help you.
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You could know about all religions and their believers from here : \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion#Present_day_adherents
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First I recommend compiling a list of the religions you want to research.  Some are more difficult to understand (Hinduism, Egyptian gods) while some are more defined and easier to understand the basic thoughts about the religion (Christianity, Islam)\n\nWikipedia is a good start for basic information on every religion.\n\nThen you could probably find a lot on Christianity and Islam on the web.\n\nFor more indepth info on other religions, I would recommend going to a library and getting books written on the specific religions.  Or you could ask some specific questions on here.
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I've study Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Shinto, Sikhism, Confucianism and Jainism,Judaism, Islam, and Christianity-and it only deepened my catholic faith.  Learning about so many religion made me realized how different people are and how glad i am to have my faith.
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God is only one, but there are 3 crores of deities in Hindu religion. Deities used to live in this world when this world was heaven. They are special and the most clever beings on this earth. Most of the Hindus worship these deities same as Christians worship Jesus or Muslims who admire muhammed or Ibrahim. The 5 million which u was taking about are not God.