Comparative Religions PDF
Comparative Religions PDF
RELIGION
IS
INSTINCTIVE, MENTAL, HAPPINESS
BUT
WHICH ONE?
SH. DR.
MOHAMMAD HAWAREY
First Edition
1422H
2001G
Basmalah
Important Remark
The Author
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................ 7
CHAPTER ONE
FUNDAMENTAL SURVEY OF THE SIX RELIGIONS.................... 13
Preface.................................................................................. 14
Part One: Religions’ Views about God ............................ 18
Section I: Confucianism View ........................................ 18
Section II: Hinduism View ................................................ 18
Section III: Buddhism View .............................................. 18
Section IV: Judaism View................................................ 19
Section V: Christianity View ............................................ 19
Section VI: Islam View ..................................................... 20
Part Two: Outline of Religion Views & History .................. 21
Section I: Confucianism .................................................. 21
Section II: Hinduism .......................................................... 26
Section III: Buddhism........................................................ 27
Section IV: Judaism.......................................................... 29
Section V: Christianity...................................................... 35
Section VI: Islam ............................................................... 42
Part Three: Comparison between Hinduism and
Buddhism .............................................................................. 51
CHAPTER TWO
GOD IN RELIGIONS.................................................................. 65
Section I: God in Confucianism......................................... 66
Section II: God in Hinduism ................................................ 68
Section III: God in Buddhism .............................................. 73
General Comparison among These Three Religions ..... 77
Section IV: God in Judaism ................................................ 77
Jews & Christians: The Relationship .................................. 83
Judaism and Islam............................................................... 83
Section V: God in Christianity ............................................ 85
Morals and the Three Religions ......................................... 90
Comparisons ........................................................................ 91
Mental Faith...................................................................... 91
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God's Esteem.................................................................... 91
Doubt in Belief .................................................................. 92
Section VI: God in Islam...................................................... 92
God's Omnipresence.......................................................... 93
God’s Multiplicity and Characteristics............................. 93
But what is the Relationship of the Creatures with the
Creator .................................................................................. 94
Atomic System Recognizes the Oneness of God .......... 95
Allah's Grace and Mercy ................................................... 97
Allah's Forgiveness and Love ............................................. 97
Islam Creates One Nation ................................................. 99
Prayer in the Three Religions .............................................. 99
Catechism in Islam, Judaism & Christianity ................... 101
Views of the Three Religions about the One of the other
Two....................................................................................... 102
The Next Life in the Three Religions................................. 103
When does Islam care for the Four Values in arranging
the three Relationships ..................................................... 105
Where are These Three Relationships and Four Values in
the other Two Heavenly Religions................................... 105
The Three Religions Views about the Relationship between
God and This Life ................................................................. 109
E/Abraham Is the Great Grandfather of … .................. 110
The Last Point of this Comparison among These Three
Heavenly Religions ............................................................ 113
CHAPTER THREE
CONCLUSION......................................................................... 115
Conclusion.......................................................................... 116
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE
Preface
Confucianism sees...:
What?
Buddhism sees …:
What?
Judaism sees…:
What?
Christianity sees …:
What?
Islam sees...:
What?
Section I: Confucianism
Section V: Christianity
When?
The Emperor Constantine called for the
Conference of Niqia in 325 A.C. to be attended
by 2048, who in most of them were believing in
Jesus’ Christianity. But the Emperor’s close
friends as European were believing in Paul’s
Christianity.
What happened?
The Emperor and Pope Rome were incited
against the opponents to exile some of them
and expel the others, since they were rejecting
the Trinity Belief. The Egyptian Scholar Arius was
killed. The Roman Empire was dissented into two
parts in respect of Christianity Belief. Another
conference was necessary.
The Second Conference convened..
What were the effects?
Another conference was ordered to
convene to put an end for the dissention. None
attended it but those of Paul’s Christianity. They
were only 318 one, who decided the divinity of
Christ the same as Paul was used to propagate.
What did they decide also?
Also, they decided to destroy all documents
disagreeing with their belief, and to punish
harshly who might hide any of those documents.
What effects..
Challenge..
Consequently, the true Christianity of Jesus
started vanishing gradually and the police of
Christianity of Paul replaced it without the true
Effect..
He faced fierce enmity against his Call for
the Oneness of Allah (The God), for which he
was forced to permit his followers the Moslems to
immigrate to Habasha (Ethiopia) twice escaping
death they were threatened with day and night.
Harsh Boycott..
How?
Also, he was compelled by Mecca to spend
three years with his Relatives Banu Hashem and
Banu Abdel-Muttaleb in their valley in a very
harsh boycott and without permitting any
supplies or provisions of food or water. They were
going to decease except of patience and some
supplies were sent in a hidden way.
What did Mecca do..
They wanted to stop the New Call..
They thought in reconciliation with the
Prophet (PBUHR). They hoped to find listening
ears from him to respond with their conditions
after he had seen the harshness and suppression
they dealt with him and his Friends.
Conditions of Reconciliation:
What were they?
The chiefs of Mecca tried in all ways to
break the protection ring his Uncle Abu Taleb
was effecting around him. Due to their claim his
Uncle offered the conditions of reconciliation on
him: to be their king, if he was aiming headship,
to be the richest one of them, if he was running
after wealth and money, to bring him the best
When?
Ten years he passed away after he did his
best within the Help of Allah in putting an end
for all his interior and exterior enemies in decisive
battles for which he was almost obliged to enter.
He was revealed with the Quranic laws
necessary for the Islamic State side by side with
what is necessary to deliver this Message to
other peoples and nations all over the world
through Jihad by which the material blocks were
eradicated and not to force anyone to
embrace Islam.
The battles started with Mecca in Badr,
Uhud and Trench battles. Then after Mecca and
Ta’ef He (PBUHR) had sent his letters to the kings
and princess of The Persian and Roman
neighboring countries to wage Mu’tah battle
against the Romans, and prepared another
army to Tabuk, but his fixed hour had come
before he sent it to the field of the battle.
The Prophet died..
After?
He died after he had paved the way for
the continuity of the Islamic State, called
Caliphate after him, and for the delivering of
Islam Call to all peoples and nations all over the
world, and to protect the Call when delivered.
He settled the matter derisively with all the
enemies and the application of Islam Shariah,
since he was, due to the two only sources of his
Message, viz. Quran and Sunnah, the Last
CHAPTER TWO
GOD IN RELIGIONS
Spiritual Indian..
Why?
From the very beginning let us ask about the
cause of the prevailing Indian Spirituality, and
why it is so greatly remarkable?
It is because of facing all aspects of natural
activities, and of feeling weak before them, the
Indian man became highly spiritual and greatly
ascetic. He, consequently, ran after heavenly
powers for which he was/is hoping to get help.
So Gods became numerous..
And Man of Many Gods..
Why?
It was/is clear that no Hinduist might/may
be found living there without worshipping many
gods at the same time. He fancies the world as if
so crowded with gods that worthwhile
worshipping due to natural phenomena and life
conditions. Simply, for example, he prays for the
tiger that eats his cattle. He prays for the railway
constructed by the European man. Even he
prays for the European himself.(1)
Abnormal Worship:
Why?
(1) Habib Said, The Great Worldly Religions, and G. Lubaun, The Civilization of India, p. 368.
Brahmanism.
On the 9th. Century B.C., the Indian priests
approached to Unitarianism. They gathered
together the many gods in only one. They called
that process Brahmanism. It had three gods in
one: Brahma of creation, Vishnu of protection
and Sheifa of destruction. And Brahman is the
One of those three gods. This Trinity opened the
gate widely before those religions of the same
aspect, such as Christianity.
Where is Trinity in Hinduism?
It is seen well when it kept on the Trinity of
Varuna in the sky, Indra in the air and Agni on
the ground.
The Certain & Public Ceremonies:
What are they?
The followers are/were accustomed to offer
those three gods oblations and libations for
each of them and in certain ceremonies. They
rub the statute with the best oil or ointment or
perfume they have, and dress it with the best
clothes and jewels they own… They have to
perform this either at home in private or in
certain public places. They behave in this way or
that due to what may fulfill pleasure and
satisfaction to the certain god.
The Four Castes..
Where are they?
What Effects have they on Hinduism?
The four societal castes had their effects on
Hinduism and its gods. The high classes were
Soul Salvation:
Buddhism Believes in Soul Salvation:
But how?
Buddhism is the same as Confucianism. It is
(1) Prof. Atria, and also Habib Said, the World Great Religions, p. 33.
Judaism Beginning..:
How?
Judaism is from the very beginning a
monotheistic religion. But Jews or Hebrews did
Comparisons
Mental Faith
Christianity, in regard of the connection of
mind and faith, tries to manage a balance
between the intellectual sophistication and the
deep respect for tradition and faith or belief. It
does not look like Islam in this respect, whereas
Judaism has not succeeded in the same degree
or level.
God's Esteem
Christianity takes God, the Father, very
serious but less than Islam since He is one of the
Trinity and more than Judaism which cares for
benefit.
Doubt in Belief
Christianity relies upon undoubted belief in
the Trinity, Judaism does not worry for this doubt,
but Islam takes it as the very core of Faith and
Belief and all Deeds in the first step of discussing
these matters, but later on when believing in
God and His messenger & message there should
be no doubt at all.
As for deeds or actions of dealing with
others the over-weighed doubt is the
considered in judgment whenever there is no
determined or confirmed sacred text of Quran
or Sunnah or Friends’ Unanimity or Qiyas.
Islam Belief:
What is it?
Islam Religion is built upon the Belief in two
sentences: “No God But Allah, Mohammad is
the Messenger of Allah”.
It is not only a Belief but the comprehensive
Faith of Islam.
Three Points about Belief:
What are they?
There are three points in this context which
must be discussed explicitly:
1. The Presence of God,
2. His numeration and
3. His Characteristics.
God's Omnipresence
How?
For example, the process of man’s thinking
leads undoubtedly to recognition of such a
Creator. When he thinks deeply and
illuminatively of the atom with its system as the
smallest material palpable thing, he would
believe in the Omnipresence of the One
Omnipotent God.
But why?
The system of motion in the atom either
creates itself or the charges of electron and
proton create it. But both of them, being in
need of the other, and both are in need of an
exterior factor, determine the Presence of the
One Creator of them both (Imam Mohammed
Abduh in his book (The Message of Unitarianism),
Mawlana Mohammed Ali in his book (The
Religion of Islam), and the English astronomer
Hertchel mentioned in Wajdi Encyclopaedia,
p.503, all of them assure those factors).
Other many sources
Determinate God's Presence & Oneness:
In this way, we can say that God’s Presence
and Oneness are determined in Islam. This
determination includes His Entity, His
Omnipresence, and His Sanctity.
His Entity means that He is the One, the
Whole, of no parts whether coherent or different.
There is no pluralism neither in Himself, nor His
other places.
Is it similar or different?
The method of prayer as Catechism in
Judaism is well known in Islam and less than that
in Christianity. The links of discussion in all Moslem
mazhabs (sects) are so famous that none of the
history ages was void of them. It was noticeable
that those discussions and dialogues became
very hot in the prosperous intellectual intervals,
such as the Abbasid era of the Islamic
Caliphate.
Abbasid & Today Moslems:
And it was not only for understanding the
Shariah and linguistic sciences but also because
of defending the pure belief of Islam against the
thought of invaders of Persia and Greeks at that
time, but they could not overcome the highly
strong Moslems. But today Moslems become so
weak before the modern liberal democratic
capitalistic thoughts that they, esp. the states all
over the Islamic world, hostile themselves and
the fundamental Islamic movements under
forged pleas. They allied with the anti-Islamic
states, esp. USA to fight the so-called terrorism
which really means Islamic Wakeup. They are
afraid of the Islamic giant a new, fancying their
end though Islam aims their secure from injustice
and corruption they are suffering from Collective
values.
This attitude of Judaism shows the far
distance between it and the other two Heavenly
Religions: Islam and Christianity. Islam does not
admit the prevalence of the Material Value on
the other three values. It is because God’s Orders
and Prohibitions are under consideration in all
deeds or actions of life. It is well known in Islam
that the one has to work hard for his life benefits
as if he is living for ever. He has to achieve the
Material Value side by side with the other two
values: The human & Moral, He has at the same
time to work for the sake of his Next Life by
adhering to God’s Orders and Prohibitions, as if
he is dying tomorrow. Islam obliges Moslem, for
example, to help any distressed one even within
his prayer. It is known that Iman Ali Ibn Abi Talem
(G. S. H. ) paid some of charity to a poor man
during his prayer. Moslem, hence, has to stop his
prayer to help the sick one who fell unconscious
within prayer to carry him to the hospital. The
praying is regarded in prayer all along his action
of help without speaking. Islam asks the trader in
his shop to practice charity actions and human
deeds achieving all values all through his
commercial work.
Therefore, the three heavenly Religions are
far from each other in regarding the Four Values
though they meet somehow in certain aspects:
They meet in the Material value and
practicing all actions which may achieve it,
Whom?
Abraham, due to Islam, is not the first Jew
nor the first Christian, but the great grandfather
CHAPTER THREE
CONCLUSION
Conclusion
References
Kent.
Brief Biography
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