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Old 03-03-2003, 03:31 PM   #11
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banditry?

What now you are paying tribute to the Patt Robertson 700 Club!!!


based on some accounts Aisha was much older. However, why use modern definitions of law and impose it upon a much older society. This is not a normative procedure.


and about the killing....How about you read what some former Jews who converted to Islam have to say about this...
http://www.jews-for-allah.org/jewish..._notkilled.htm

I am totally wrong. You reek of jelousy. You will never even be one millionth of a man that Jesus/Muhammad were....
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Old 03-04-2003, 01:18 AM   #12
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Call this ad hominem, if you want, but I think this article is a pretty decent example of religious propaganda and needs to be trashed as such. So here we go (bolding mine):

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http://saif_w.tripod.com/interfaith/...lki_avatar.htm

Kalki Autar
By: Prof. Pundit Vaid Parkash
Reviewed by: Mir Abdul Majeed
Broadcasted on BICNews 8 December 1997

Pundit verifies Messenger was foretold
The Message, October 1997

*The Last Kalki Autar (Messenger) that the Veda has foretold and who is waited on by Hindus is the Prophet Muhammed ibn Abdullah (saw) *
As others have pointed out, Kalki isn't supposed to be a messenger, but God his/her/it/self come down on the earth to end the current cycle of existence so the next can begin. Certainly not someone's whose presence would go unnoticed (or survived) by humanity prior to this article...

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A recently published book in Hindi has raised a lot of hue and cry all over India.
India is a nation of 1 billion people, many of who are geographically isolated. Basically, nothing of this sort really happens all over India. This is just trying to lend credibility to the rest of this propaganda by saying it's having a dramatic effect on a populace. You'd think I'd at least have read an article about something of this magnitude.

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In the event of the author being Muslim, he would have been jailed and a strict ban would have certainly been imposed on the printing and the publishing of the book. The author of this important research work "Kalki Autar" i.e. "guide and Prophet of whole universe" comes of a Bengali race and holds an important portfolio at Ilahabad University.
*Important* so you should listen... If you're going to give credentials, be specific. Otherwise, what's the use of describing his credibility with empty words like this?

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Pundit Vaid Parkash is a Brahman Hindu and a well known Sanskrit scholar and research worker. Pundit Vaid Parkash, after a great deal of toil and hard-work, presented the work to as many as eight great Pundits who are themselves very well known in the field of research in India, and are amongst the learned religious leaders.
Well known but not worth writing about. Again, why mention this and leave it unverifiable? Did the author just not have time to present actual facts?

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Their Pundits, after thorough study of the book, have acknowledged this to be true and authentic research work.
Just pointing out the same kind of stuff...

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Important religious books of India mention the guide and prophet by the specific name of "Kalki Autar" it denotes the great man Muhammed (saw) who was born in Makkah. Hence, all Hindus where-ever they may be, should wait no longer for any other 'kalki autar' but to embrace Islam and follow in the footsteps of the last Messenger of Allah (swt) who was sent in the world about fourteen hundred years ago with a mission from Him and after accmplishing it has long ago departed this world.
Again, Kalki isn't a prophet because Kalki isn't foretelling anything. Not really sure why the author wants people to embrace kalki. Kalki is portrayed in hiduism as the last avatar of Vishnu, but among his avatars, Krishna and Ram are the more celebrated and certainly the more visible. Kalki gets about as much mention as the second coming of Christ, who as others have said, is the better comparison (though still not a great one).

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As an argument to prove the authenticity of his research, Pundit Vaid Parkash quotes from the Veda, a sacred book among Hindus:

Veda mentions that 'kalki autar' will be the last Messenger / Prophet of Bhagwan (Allah) to guide the whole world. Afer quoting this reference the Pundit Parkash says that this comes true only in the case of Muhammed (saw).

According to a prophecy of Hinduism, 'kalki autar' will be born in an island and that is the Arab territory which is known as 'jazeeratul Arab'.

In the 'sacred' book of Hindus the father's name of 'kalki autar' is mentioned as 'Vishnu Bhagat' and his mother's name as 'somanib'. In sanskrit, 'vishnu' stands for Allah (swt) and the literal meaning of 'bhagat' is slave. 'Vishnu Bhagat' therefore, in the Arabic language will mean Allah's slave (Abdullah). 'Somanib' in Sanskrit means peace and tranquilty which in arabic is denoted by the word 'Amina'. Whereas the last Messenger Muhammed's (saw) father and mother's names were Abdullah and Amina respectively.
You could call this superficially true, but even that is misleading. For one, Vishnu is the name of the preserver god in the hindu trimurti. Allah has no name.

The rest, I won't comment on because I'm far from an expert on the puranas or the quran. I will point out that I have a nagging doubt about the factual truth of the given descriptions of Kalki. Remembering that Kalki is an avatar of Vishnu in hindu mythology, and that the author himself defined Vishnu as Allah, we can conclude Kalki was Allah, by his claims. Why would Allah needed to be taught anything? Why would a person who is muslim, as this guy obviously is, try to convince hindus using their mythology that Kalki was Muhammed, when the same mythology specifies that Kalki was in fact Vishnu (who the author equates with Allah). Why buy one but not the other?

Anyway, this concludes my important rant. I'll submit it to some well known people and I'm sure it'll raise a cry all over India.
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banditry?
What now you are paying tribute to the Patt Robertson 700 Club!!!
No, Pat Robertson makes as little sense as you do. He's just selling a different brand of snake oil.
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based on some accounts Aisha was much older. However, why use modern definitions of law and impose it upon a much older society. This is not a normative procedure.
I'm sorry, that doesn't cut it with me. If you're claiming that someone is the highest example of humanity ever, he shouldn't have a predilection for fondling pre-teen girls (like some stories in the Hadith say he did). If you're listing the personality traits of a holy person, child molester should not appear on the list.
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and about the killing....How about you read what some former Jews who converted to Islam have to say about this...
http://www.jews-for-allah.org/jewish..._notkilled.htm
So you believe some thirty-year-old paper over the stories in the Hadith?
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I am totally wrong. You reek of jelousy. You will never even be one millionth of a man that Jesus/Muhammad were....
Dear, dear, how will I sleep at night...

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Old 03-04-2003, 04:59 PM   #14
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I personally don't think so because too many contradictions. I had faced this topic before (about 3 times if not mistaken) in another forum. The reason why I think Muhammad is not Kalki is this :

1. Vishnu told that His last incarnation - Kalki is to bring destruction to Earth/Humanity. Like Hinduwoman said ... it has been 1,400 years since Muhammad came and went ... and Humanity STILL here.

2. Vishnu always ADD new teachings to His old ones in Hindusm by correcting mistaken of humans who misinterpreted His words. He doesn't ERASE all teachings by INTRODUCING new teachings like what Muhammad did with Islam.

3. Vishnu is a more peaceful God/Diety ... so WHY did He thought Muhammad subdue His enemies/spread His words by sword?

4. ONLY place in scriptures in Hindusm that mentioned Kalki was in Bhagavad Gita (at least that's where I first heard about him). How is it that this Pundit could make a mistake in saying that Kalki is mentioned in Vedas. If I'm not mistaken, Vedas were nothing more than hymns and mantras and others things like that, there was not mentioning of prophecies in there.

5. Hindusm doesn't deal with prophecies and prophets before ... why suddenly change with Muhammad?

There is too many questions when dealing with Muhammad is Kalki business and all of it pointing that Muhammad IS NOT Kalki but Islam is a separate religion/cult by its own.
 
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If the book did raise a hue and cry all over India, it must have been a silent one. Before stumbling on it on the internet I have never heard of it, and neither has anyone else.

As I told Rivers in yet another thread on this same topic:

REFERENCES, REFERENCES, REFERENCES
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If the book did raise a hue and cry all over India, it must have been a silent one. Before stumbling on it on the internet I have never heard of it, and neither has anyone else.

As I told Rivers in yet another thread on this same topic:

REFERENCES, REFERENCES, REFERENCES


My reply : O_o

Someone actually going to make a BOOK out of this crap?

As for hearing about it, I have not heard about it either except from some individuals who used such articles (from that Pundit) to argue that Islam was better than other religion (in this case Hindusm and Buddhism) and people of India should embrace Islam rather than oppose it (I heard that there is only about 1% growth of Muslims in India).
 
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I am currently on hiatus ....I will respond to y'allz laters.
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I might possibly have been wrong......I have done some additive research and I've discovered that the Kalki Avatar might not have been Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)...However, the Kalki Avatar fits the character known as Imam Mahdi , even more closely. Imam Mahdi is the great Islamic leader and "The Rightly Guided One" who will assist Caliph Jesus Christ in restoring Islam as the official religion on Planet Earth.


P.S I have not combatted anything that Hinduwomen has said {recently}...She seems to confirm everything I've said at a slightly different level...However the main problem lies in the interpretation of the word "manifestation".
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