Ram Swarup
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The conquest of Mecca: Though Muhammad and the Meccans had entered into a ten-year truce, he made secret preparations to invade Mecca. โO God, take eyes and ears from Quraish so...
Prohibitions in Islam: "The law appears to be quite indulgent, but it is not entirely so. There are many restrictions on grounds of number, consanguinity, affinity, religion, rank...
On Muslim Fasts: "There are many kinds of fasts in Islam, but the fast during the month of RamzAn (Ramadan) is considered the most important. Enjoined in the QurAn, it is compulso...
On Zakat: "The fifth book is on al-zakAt (charity or poor tax). Every society preaches and to some extent practices charity toward its less-fortunate brothers. Muhammad too stress...
"What are good deeds and what are bad deeds? These questions have been the concern of many religions, many philosophies, and many teachers. Islam too has provided its characterist...
On Social Evils: "Vulgarity is creeping in the celebration of our festivals like Deepawali, Holi, Ramaleela, Durga Puja. These have become occasions for gambling, drinking, vulgar...
"The Hindu philosophy and sรขdhanรข are individual. Hindu mode of worship helps an individual ethically and spiritually, but it does not raise his collective consciousness. For exam...
"There was a time when the caste system was not static and castes often rose and fell in social status. It was also the time when no caste was "depressed" though there were social...
1/ No society is a mass; it has always a social configuration. Any developed human society follows the law of differentiation. So did the Hindu society. For better self-articulatio...
"Hindu dharma was a great reconciler. It reconciled various viewpoints, various doctrines. It knew how to look at things from various angles and viewpoints. It knew no conflict bet...
The pledge: 1. "I offer my obeisance to Sanatana dharma of the Vedas and the Upanishads, the PurรขNas, the Epics and many รgamas.
"Sanatana dharma was known in many lands under different names. But at one stage or the other, it came under the attack of monolatrous creeds which lacked internality but were move...