Reply to claim "Hinduism is more tolerant than Islam" | Mufti Abu Layth

in hindu gods can accept each other your god can't tolerate others the reason said in the quran is that they will fight each other's like like hand i mean there's no such reference in the quran about they will fight each other like i don't know what that reference is to um and i disagree that uh i agree that hinduism it wasn't called hinduism in essence is called sanatan dharma

um it was a a very tolerant in essence i feel it had great tolerance to it until the british kind of got there um it wasn't really i think some hindus did become quite um discriminatory against other faiths but that may have been in reaction to the mo you know the mughals and stuff but they in essence i do accept that they have been quite tolerating

within the faith structures but then you see you that's from the aspect of well this person worships this god and he doesn't attack that person was worshiping shiva who doesn't attack that person worshiping vishnu or that person people can have their favorite gods and that's true but then you look at things like you see and what's interesting is they have that kind of tolerance at a um are they feel philosophical at a theosophical level they do have that

and in essence they do actually just believe in they ought to believe in just one god and they say these are just manifestations and and then people obviously got carried away but but and and what's also interesting is they don't have a clear black and white so they don't have a clear devil and a you know good guy bad guy they have a very you know just a grey area so even the stories like the mahabharata will show that there is a a conflict of duty and you just do what you do you just do you you don't have to there's no necessary right or wrong i think in some

ways that is profound but then you see you sh you look at the where theosophy melts into human the human world how we live and interact and it is incredibly discriminatory you have the caste system and you have people that are to live an eternity in in this cast and they cannot outgrow this cast and if a person walks in he can never you know he can't walk into the kitchen because he's in a truth and you know this person is a low caste they are untouchable and then they've got you

know this person's a dalit and they can't do this and all the brahmin are the only one who could read and write first you know they were the only ones allowed to read and write and the superstitions that they've riddled the faith with um and things like the the way a person is cursed and to remove a curse you have to marry a tree or marry a dog or marry something and then the ultimate they take the theosophy and they and they speak of an eschatology the the after this world and they remove it from that sense of you know this this kind of harmony into this samsara

of where you will have now be re this rebirth of of of karma with huge tragic fear factors that you're going to be born again as a as a as a beetle or a cockroach or a dog or you know you're going to be born as something tragic and suffer for an eternity i don't see the compassion trickling down in any way i do accept that you know it is true at a theosophic level in its foundation there was uh it was not binary there were no binaries and and that is that is definitely

um a plus point and i think it's something we everybody can learn from but then as soon as it it melts into human interaction it becomes a burden to be you know this sanatana dharma is a burden now because of the caste system and the tyranny and the and the whole rituals are nothing but superstition on steroids now you switch it to islam and the root thing is just one god as well which in essence in hinduism was

one god as well it was brahman brahman or you know paramatma or ishvar in essence and it's just one god as well in islam and really islam doesn't go the way christianity later christianity goes the full way of empowering the devil to becoming the bad guy and god the good guy and i accept some muslims may kind of lean that way but i generally the quran doesn't go that way and so people could say but there is some binary you know maybe some people read into islamic binary between the devil and god but really allah does not

portray like that in the quran allah portrays this challenge of the ego of the identity that we have created inside we know his nafs his ego the identity what it is whispering to him you see because if you say it's the devil then tell me when the the story that is given in the quran the allah whether it's metaphorical or literal however you want to take it but the story of the shaitaan refusing to bow down to adam the question is well who

who was the shaitaan shaitaan then if there's an ultimate binary but the essence was about the nafs you see the so there isn't this good guy bad guy god is the good guy devil is the bad guy like some christians do believe but there is this ultimate being what some people may call the ground of being but this being which is the ultimate which is allah and yes i accept that in in some ways people see islam as islam can have some binary teachings you know because it's part of the abrahamic

faiths it can have that and but as soon as you see when islam then comes into it connects with human interaction interacts with the real world you have and sharia and we have differences and they taught to respect the differences they talk to whether people do it or not it's up to them but they are taught they they are fundamentally taught that there is that this is that you have different ways of looking at things you have some person may say that is for being a different person may interpret it differently and generally for the most part as a concept it is accepted that there is

within this ummah and that this should not be seen as a bad thing so in the human world in the interaction world there is great dive it's not binary it's not black and white and it's only you know unfortunately some people who like the kind of evangelic people who believe in a strong binary in most people they accept this this difference of opinion and this is your personal belief so i disagree on every account that islam is that that it is somehow intolerant

that it is somehow um [Music] kind of restricted to a black and white world it isn't it is incredibly colorful so and i feel it does stand the test of time it has stood the test of time so i disagree uh passionately with your comment but i about how hinduism could trump islam i i don't but i'm not saying hinduism doesn't or any faith or any belief system doesn't have good things in it it does all good all faith systems around the world will have some gems that they can contribute to mankind and

i personally believe that most faith systems maybe not all but most or many let's say many had prophet would have been in what islam would call prophets i mean they may use other words but yeah i hope that helps