The Hindu god/gods can understand only "Sanskrit", the Christian god (or Holy Trinity) can understand only "Latin" and the Muslim god (Allah) can understand only "Arabic". I do not know any of these languages and need a middle-man to convey my prayers to the God.
Our former PM, the late Shri. P.V.Narasimharao was fluent in more than a dozen languages. The god does not know even that many languages!!!!
Re: I pity the god/gods
by Dire Straits on Sep 26, 2008 04:45 PM Permalink
god, what the hell is wrong with u, jgn?? i've clarified myself at least 5 times already. pls read the lines carefully this time - "The actual term “Hindu” first occurs as an Old Persian geographical term (derived from the river Sindhu), to identify the people who lived beyond the River Indus. However, the modern origin is derived from the Arabic texts - Al-Hind (the Hind) referring to 'the land of the people of modern day India' - which then got vernacularised as Hindu." and if even after that u have any issues with it, go and write a mail to wikipedia. i did not write that stuff. man, u r one pain in the ass, u know that?
Re: I pity the god/gods
by JGN on Sep 26, 2008 04:50 PM Permalink
wikipedia is an open source which anyone can edit. The information is not totally correct. Hindu is not the vernacularized word, but the Persians cannot pronounce Sindhu, so they referred to those who were residing in the vicinity of River Sindhu as "Hindus". Some Arabic Dictionary gives the meaning of the word "Hindu" and "thief" also!!! Refer Stephen Knapps. Do you want me to believe that Hindu means "thief" ??
Re: I pity the god/gods
by Dire Straits on Sep 26, 2008 04:59 PM Permalink
man, wiki is the second most used information portal. so there r millions of ppl like me who use wiki. so why don't u go and edit it if u r so sure that the info is wrong. i don't want u to believe anything my brother. and neither do i want u to alter my belief. the problem here u s, as u pointed out, the arabic dictionary give the meaning of hindu as thief, the ppl who will read those dictionaries will always beleive that meaning only. so how r u gonna correct that? now, isn't it a good point that i had written that, otherwise i'd have never known that it is false. what say??
Re: Re: I pity the god/gods
by JGN on Sep 26, 2008 05:07 PM Permalink
Dire Straits, I also get info from wiki quite often and know for sure that all informations are "not 100% correct". Some articles even specify that they are not "neutral", etc.
Re: I pity the god/gods
by aproudmuslim on Sep 26, 2008 04:45 PM Permalink
JGN, I almost feel sorry for you. Who told you that a muslim has pray in Arabic? The scriptures are in Arabic, but when i ask God for something, my prayer is in my mother tongue, English. In fact you dont even have to utter words. God knows whats in your heart.
Re: Re: I pity the god/gods
by JGN on Sep 26, 2008 04:52 PM Permalink
The world over Aazan is given in Arabic.....the prayer of Hindus do not reach the god unless some Priest say "om swaha"........I do not know what the Christian priests tell.....
Re: I pity the god/gods
by aproudmuslim on Sep 26, 2008 04:58 PM Permalink
Well the call has to be given in some language, and Arabic is the tradition. You can pray without giving the Azan.
Re: I pity the god/gods
by kedem kemorah on Sep 26, 2008 07:00 PM Permalink
In what language is the Al Hamdu Surah, the Lords prayer of the Muslims to be uttered everyday like "Our father which art in Heaven.." of the Christians?
Re: I pity the god/gods
by JGN on Sep 26, 2008 05:03 PM Permalink
aproudmuslim, then why the Aazan cannot given in the local language? Do you think Allah will not understand that?
Re: I pity the god/gods
by aproudmuslim on Sep 26, 2008 05:13 PM Permalink
JGN, the Azan is a call for people to come for prayer. Its not a prayer. Its just a tradition to give it in Arabic. Half knowledge is dangerous, you just prove that.
Re: I pity the god/gods
by America on Sep 26, 2008 04:50 PM Permalink
I think the religion was produced by humans... in order to make human feel that some else is there who is bigger and got all powers.. so they keep on creating and manipulating different story about god... that's y every country has different god... and politics have used gods to serve their purpose i.e. ultimately to rule over humans...
Re: Re: I pity the god/gods
by JGN on Sep 26, 2008 04:53 PM Permalink
Put search words "animal worship" in any internet search engine and read the article to know how the system of wroship originated.
Re: Re: Re: I pity the god/gods
by Dire Straits on Sep 26, 2008 05:01 PM Permalink
now u c, u so easily say google "animal worship" and read the article, how do u know that the link that comes first will give the correct info?? rather, i'd be right if u mentioned which link by name.
