{"id":586,"date":"2015-06-23T17:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vedkabhed.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/23\/religion-demystified-demystifying-religion-in-true-sense-part-1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:41:59","slug":"religion-demystified-demystifying-religion-in-true-sense-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vedkabhed.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/23\/religion-demystified-demystifying-religion-in-true-sense-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion Demystified: Demystifying Religion in True sense Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

As-salamu ‘alaikum\u00a0Wa\u00a0Rahmatullahi\u00a0Wa\u00a0Barakatahu to our Muslim Ummah and a Warm Welcome to all Seekers of True Knowledge<\/span>
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This Article is in reply to the article in Anti Islamic website agniveer.com with title,<\/strong><\/span>
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Religion Demystified<\/strong><\/span>
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Article is available here:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/agniveer.com\/1696\/religions-demystified\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>
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Refutation by Brother Md. Zeeshan Akhtar assisted by Brother Neer<\/strong><\/span>
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The artice is divided into 3 parts:<\/span>
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(Part 1) <\/strong>Demystifying Religion in True sense<\/span>
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(Part 2) <\/strong>Refuting the false and wrong informations given by Agniveer about Islam in his article.<\/strong><\/span>
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(Part 3) <\/strong>Response to points raised about Eastern religion and Miscellaneous Religions<\/span>
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[PART 1]: Demystifying Religion in True sense
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\u00a0<\/span>After going through Agniveer’s article, I found the need to really Demystify Religion in Real sense critically.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>‘Religion’ what it actually means ?<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
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The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system, but religion differs from private belief in that it has a public aspect.<\/span>
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A religion, if it has to be from our Creator, Almighty God, it has to be universal and not bound and based to any ‘Man’, ‘Place’, ‘Region’ and it cannot have any other founder except our Creator, Almighty God. It has to be a natural disposition. A natural realization, a natural instinct, a natural bond between us and our creator, which has to exist from the time the first man stepped on this world. It can not be founded later on.<\/span>
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As soon as We begin to describe any religion as ‘the religion of the Hindus or Muslims’, or ‘the religion following the teachings of so and so’, or ‘the religion founded by so and so, except the True God’, or ‘the religion founded so many years back’ we introduces a category which does not fit, the category of ‘religion’.<\/span>
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Having said this, let us look at some of the major religions and their possibilities of being the universal religion from Our creator.<\/span>
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Hinduism =<\/span><\/strong> According to Agniveer, Hinduism is the collection of Easterly Religion. It is a blanket term for an assortment of religious beliefs whose founders were supposed to be exalted souls who realized truth in their own way. (See Agniveer’s same article under the heading Easterly Religion\/Hinduism point (a)). It’s a Strange fact, but True, that even Agniveer believes that their so called religion was founded by exalted souls, and Not by our Creator, Almighty God.<\/span><\/span>
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‘Hindu’ is actually a Persian word that stands for the inhabitants of the region beyond the Indus Valley. Thus it is also cultural and region specific and hence cannot be a universal religion, existing from time immemorial.<\/span>
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Christianity<\/strong> = Christianity (from the Greek word X\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03c2, Khristos, “Christ“, literally “anointed one“) is a (supposedly) monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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Here again we find that this religion is based on the teachings of a ‘Man’ and hence Not founded by our Creator, Almighty God. People before Christ were not christians. Hence we find this is time specific religion.<\/span>
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Sikhism<\/strong> = Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded in the fifteenth century Punjab on the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and ten successive Sikh Gurus (the last one being the sacred text Guru Granth Sahib Ji)<\/span><\/span>
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Same as above. Founded in the 15th century and based on the teachings of mortal ‘Men’, so it can not be a religion of God, because religion of God has to exist from the beginning.<\/span>
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A Sikh is a disciple of the Guru (Guru Nanak and 10 successive Gurus). Again it is a person specific religion.<\/span>
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Buddhism<\/strong> = Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (P\u0101li\/Sanskrit “the awakened one”). The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE. Indigenous sources use terms like Dharma (‘the Law’), Buddha-dharma (‘Buddhist doctrine’), Buddha-\u015b\u0101sana (‘teachings of the Buddha’) and Buddhavacana (‘the word of the Buddha’).<\/span><\/span>
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Same as above. A follower of Gautam Buddha, would be called a Buddhist. It is ‘Person’ specific.<\/span>
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Jainism<\/strong> = Jainism is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Jain Religion is not an apauruseya religion, i.e., a religion propounded by a non-human being or based on a sacred book of non-human origin. On the contrary it is a religion of purely human origin and is preached by one who has attained omniscience and self-control by his own personal efforts. In short, Jain Religion is the substance of the preaching of those perfect souls who have attained the state of Jainas.<\/span><\/span>
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Again it is clearly, a religion not by Our Creator, Almighty God and is also not a religion which existed since time immemorial.<\/span>
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Zoroastrianism<\/strong> = Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster (also known as Zarathustra, in Avestan). It was probably founded some time before the 6th century B.C. in Persia (Iran).<\/span><\/span>
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Same as above. It is quite interesting to note that If many teachings and concepts within the Vedas are similar to those of Zoroastrian religion, and hence it is not surprising enough to conclude that Vedic Religion has been derived from Zoroastrianism, because the Parsis (Zoroastrians) consider their religion older than the Vedic Religion<\/span>
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For More Details Visit<\/strong>: https:\/\/vedkabhed.com\/2014\/05\/14\/vedas-are-not-eternal\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>
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Islam
\n<\/span><\/strong>= The word \u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645<\/strong> Isl\u0101m is derived from Arabic triconsonantal root s\u012bn-l\u0101m-m\u012bm (SLM [
\n\u0633 \u0644 \u0645<\/span><\/strong> ])., meaning “submission” (i.e. entrusting one’s wholeness to the only one and True God). “One who submits” is signified by the participle \u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645<\/strong>, Muslim (fem. \u0645\u0633\u0644\u0645\u0629<\/strong>, muslimah).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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We Muslims refer to our creator, Almighty God with the name “Allah”<\/span>
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This religion is not bound to any person, place, region, space etc and is neither defined in terms of these restrictions and limits contrary to the literal meanings of the various world’s major religions. This religion is not bound to anything except Our Creator.<\/span>
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Then which is actually the True Religion ?<\/strong><\/span>
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For what does ‘Religion’ now mean to the occidental? At best, for the ordinary man, it means a way of spending an hour or so on Sundays in practices which give him some support and strength in dealing with the problems of daily life, and which encourages him to be friendly towards other persons and to maintain the standards of sexual propriety; it has little or nothing to do with commerce or economics or politics or industrial relationships. At worst it fosters an attitude of complacency in the more prosperous individuals and breeds smugness.<\/span>
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Some people may even look at religion as an opiate developed by exploiters of the common people in order to keep them in subjection. How different from the connotations to the Muslim of the verse (3:19<\/strong>): ‘the true religion with God is submitting yourself to God (Islam)!<\/em>‘<\/span> The word translated as ‘religion’ is Deen, which, in Arabic, commonly refers to a whole way of life.<\/span>
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It is not a private matter for individuals, touching only the periphery of their lives, but something which is both private and public, something which permeates the whole fabric of society in a way of which men are conscious. It is all in one theological dogma, forms of worship, political theory, and a detailed code of conduct, including even matters which the European would classify as hygiene or etiquette.<\/span>
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The universatality of the religion of ‘Submitting to Our Creator’ is quite obvious and this is the only religion which is universal in nature.<\/span>
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Thus after going through only the literal definition of the various major world religions, it is quite obvious that religion has to be something from our one and only creator and also Universal not bound to any limits and that only religion living upto it’s definition is Islam (Submitting to Our Creator).<\/span>
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Given Below is the definition of a True Religion which is right and straight mentioned in the Qur’an and which is a universal definition and no one can object to that.<\/span>
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