Muslim girl in Mumbai wins Gita contest- Incredible India!!

[doppelganger]

Quran: Muslims and Non Muslims. believers and Non believers

Bible: Also talks about Christians.

This causes hatred and division between people. You can see different treatment is meted out to Muslims and Non Muslims in Quran. It divided people and makes its followers extremely intolerant of the Non Muslims.

I see Christianity and Islam as new religions. They came along at a time when most old civilizations and religions and theologies had already pretty much not only established and spread but also peaked.

Which is why I see in both a need to preach a difference, a separateness, a superiority of ideas. The need to convert.

While old religions pretty much took seed and grew and evolved naturally, organically, and within its own bloodlines and geographies for the most part.

Another contributor was (or could have been) the age of exploration. The world becoming a smalller place, of man traveling more, further. But that to me is neither here nor there when one sees the great conquerors and warrior kings and transcontinental armies of the past. They were invasionary forces, but not religious (evangelical) forces.

There were no Kingdoms of God in other words, till Christianity and Islam came along.

 

[Hindustani78]

Ya, but he specializes in Jesus. For you he is only one of the prophets. Hence my skepticism regarding your claim.
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I think its mainly because of the second coming .

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Lucknow, April 04:
The Uttar Pradesh government will felicitate 12-year-old Marryam Asif Siddiqui for emerging topper at a contest on Bhagavad Gita in Mumbai.

"Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has decided to felicitate Siddiqui for attaining first position in the written examination conducted to assess knowledge on Gita among children. She would be felicitated soon," an official spokesman said.

Siddiqui, a sixth-grade student of Mumbai-based school, won the "Shrimad Bhagwad Gita Champion League" yesterday organised by ISKCON International Society beating around 4,500 students.

PTI

 

[doppelganger]

I think its mainly because of the second coming .

I'm light on the intricacies. Could you explain?

 

[Hindustani78]

I'm light on the intricacies. Could you explain?

You wrote this .

Ya, but he specializes in Jesus. For you he is only one of the prophets. Hence my skepticism regarding your claim.

Quran do talk about the second coming of Jesus and there are many verses on this. Jesus is an Important Prophet in Islam

 

[My-Analogous]

Me too!
Gita is the revelation of life's wisdom and it has influenced great minds.


Lol
No!
Nobody trolls on my thread.

TROLL TROLL. Ops! i did

 

[ManavKalia]

Religions were borne from man's inherent compulsion to justify his existence. At first shaman religions evolved in which anything mystifying was worshipped like thunder, fire, rain etc.

As man evolved and started understanding his environment better, then codification of religions started, with always the essence of getting rewarded for good deeds and being punished for bad ones, in the afterlife or reincarnation. Soon priests became the caretakers of religion, and as one religion was corrupted, new ones were born mostly to counter the the misuse of the power structure of the earlier religion.

They were all used by kings as political tools, as was politically, cultural and economically expedient and convenient at the time. Nothing else.

How else can you explain the justification of slavery, class system, gender inequalities etc to name a few universally acknowledged evils in today's world, within the scriptures of almost all the major religions.

The greatest gift mankind got was the power to think, and when all religions started with essentially the same philosophy of doing good, this gift should be exercised to differentiate between the essence and the corruption of any religion one follows.

 

[I.R.A]

I am getting bored of religious talk Imran, no offense.

Btw, thank you for not talking about cricket.

No problem.

Cricket you were not there that day on that thread. Bohat maza aya mauka milnay ka

 

[doppelganger]

No problem.

Cricket you were not there that day on that thread. Bohat maza aya mauka milnay ka

I purposely stayed away.

All of us bunked classes and watched the match together. Then we drank and smoked a lot on top of a nearby hilltop which has a mandir and a lone banyan tree.

Returned back only the next day post lunch.

 

[Hindustani78]

Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, on Monday, felicitated Mariyam and her parents at a specially organised function at Vidhan Bhavan.

Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, on Monday, felicitated Mariyam and her parents at a specially organised function at Vidhan Bhavan. State Irrigation Minister Girish Mahajan was also present on the occasion.

“A Muslim student winning a competition on a great scripture like the Gita is a praiseworthy achievement,” Mr. Mungantiwar said, who assured the family of all support to Mariyam in her educational career.

Encouraged by her parents, Mariyam Siddiqui received the first prize in an inter-school competition for explaining the teachings of the holy book.

 

[Hindustani78]

Twelve-year-old Muslim girl Maryam Asif Siddiqui who won a competition on understanding the Bhagwad Gita being felicitated by Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam.