Hindus are nonbelievers, Kuffar, we cant even sit and eat with Kuffar, it is against Islam.
Christians and Jews are the People of the Book we can sit and eat with them.
Muslims are the Believers.
All of what I said is true, even ask Muslims in India they will tell you.
Ok I didnt want to reply to your posts because you certainly seem to be a victim of brainwashing, but since you wrongly claim to speak for all muslims....
The Quran mentions people of the book. Although it is agreed that it refers to the Jews and the Christians, scholars unanimously agree that it could refer to any group of people that have received a revealed book.
Now I doubt you have studied anything about Hinduism, Buddhism, or any other religion for that matter. Hindus are not a monolithic group. They consists of various sects which have there own practices.
So for example you will have the Vedantists, the Arya samajis, the Lingayats e.t.c. who are against idol worship and believe in one God. There are others who worship dieties like Ram and Krishna. They still agree that the supreme God has the qualities of Brahma/Vishnu/Shiva(Creator/Sustainer/Destroyer, attributes of Allah and similar to concept of trinity in Christianity)
Now there is a large agreement among scholars that the vedas could be considered as a revealed book because of its content on wahdaniyat and the nature of God. That is why Hindus who strictly follow the scripture tend to reject idol worship and believe in a single creator. Then there is the concept of avatar for Ram and Krishna, which would most likely be considered as messengers. Kalki avatar by some scholars has been noted to refer to Muhammed (SAW) as an avatar of God.
Ofcourse like the the Bible has been changed over time, it could be understandable that the vedas were modified over time as well. So Hindus and Christians share a lot of similarity if you look at the requirements of being people of the book.
According to a significant section of scholars, as long as any Hindu agrees and believes that the vedas are the revealed book of God, they can be considered as "people of the book". Now before you go ahead and say that they do shirk and indulge in idol worship. Don't the Christians do the same thing? They worship Jesus as the son of god and even pray to statues of saints. Are they then considered as mushrikeen? This theological argument is not new. These have been expounded and reiterated since the 12th century when muslim converts and immigrant muslims in India studied Hindu scriptures. A large section of the then sufi ulemas held the same view.
Let me remind you that Sri Lanka is considered to be the place where Adam(AS) stepped first on earth. It also believed that Noah (known as Manu in Sanskrit literature
Noah and Human Etymology) settled in India and
his grave is marked in Ayodhya. The gangetic plain is where his progeny is believed to have settled.
Moreover Sheesh (AS) is also believed to be buried there.
http://www.indianmuslims.info/books...lture_and_traditions_vidya_bhushan_rawat.html
That is why Ayodhya is considered to be as important to muslims as it is to Hindus.
There are many other such things you could find if you were interested in studying other religions.
The word Kafir is used for some who DOES NOT believe in God and scriptures. Then if a Christian, Hindu, Jew, Buddhist, Parsi e.tc. believes in God and follows scriptures (albeit in an altered form), how can he be a Kafir? Infact the Communists, and atheists can categorically be stated as Kafirs. Are you ready to fight against the Chinese now?
And even if there are Kafirs (which literally means rejector ), where did you get that you could not eat with them? Did not the prophet Muhammed (SAW) eat with the idolators of meccas? Did he not invite them to eat on his sufrah and mingle with them? And did'nt the sahaba do the same? He also did the same in Medina as well.
If these illustrious people had no problem eating with "Kafirs" and meeting with them with excellent "Akhlaq", then how can we say we won't? Besides, a Kafir would be as worthy of God's compassion as any one else including a muslim. Remember Huqoq-ul-ibad (rights of the creation) is greater thatn Huqoq-ul-Allah (Rights of the creator).
I suggest you have read through this.
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All my arguments are based on theological arguments from ulema from dar-ul-uloom and 11th-12th century ulemas as well. The problem is that you don't know anything about world religion, but more importantly, you don't know about Islam itself, except for some Jihad/political Islam propaganda. You tarnish the noble concept of Jihad and the name of Islam by believing in there BS. I suggest you go to a proper scholar (not the ones raking in donations for Jihad) and ask his opinion on this matter.
You must understand that in the current situation, it would make sense to create propaganda that you are indeed fighting some holy war against "kafirs" just so that they can churn out fanatics and use them.
I hope I have cleared this misconception, even though this has nothing to do with the thread.