BUDDHISM

Buddha was born approximately 560 years before Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ in India, in a village called “Kapilovastu” (its other name is Lumpini), which is 160 kilometres north of the city of Benares. His original name is “Guatama” or “Gotama.” Buddha was his nickname and it meant “educated, brightened, divinized”. Buddha was a human being. His father was the ruler of a region. As it has been told, Buddha’s mother had some dreams and told them to her husband. His father kept Buddha in his palace because he did not want his son to be a sovereign or a man given over to divination. However, Buddha fled from the palace when he was twenty-nine. He lived alone in a forest under a self-imposed state of riyâdat (starvation). When he realized that starvation would not be enough, he left the forest and returned to a normal life. He again plunged into meditation. At last, when he reached the age of thirty-five, while sitting under a fig (bo) tree on the banks of a river named Naranjara, he plunged into contemplation and was englightened mentally, and thereby attained divination. So, Guatama became Buddha at last. He strove to spread his ideas until he died at the age of eighty. Buddha said that the faith of Brahminism was corrupt; it was wrong to worship idols, and ordered that idols be broken into pieces. The people listening to him admired his new ideas. They followed him. Hence a new religion named “Buddhism” was formed. Buddha said he himself was a human being, and he never claimed to be a god. But after his death, his disciples idolized him. They built temples in his name, and, after erecting statues of him, they began to worship him. In this way, they turned it into a false religion. There is no God in Buddhism. Buddha is considered to be God. That is why, until the end of the last century, they believed that Buddha was God and that he had not been born and never lived in this world. But when some authentic information was discovered concerning his place of birth and his places of habitation and other biographical facts, it was understood that he was a man.

Buddhism is based on four fundamental principles:

1- Life is full of troubles. Pleasure and enjoyment is something like a phantom and a misleading dream. Birth, old age, illness and death are bitter facts.

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2- The main hindrance preventing us from getting rid of all these troubles is our strong desires, which originate from our ignorance, and our wish to live anyhow.

3- To overcome these troubles, it is necessary to extinguish our permanent desires for living as well as our temporary wishes.

4- Man attains beatitude after the elimination of the desire for living. This condition is called “Nirvana.” Nirvana means one who has lost wishes or ambitions. By refraining from worldly pleasures, he attains holy rest. Buddha recommends eight articles for attaining comfort. These are written below:

1- Good faith

2- Good decisions

3- Good word

4- Good action

5- Good life

6- Good work

7- Good contemplation

8- Good mind

All the castes (classes) in the religion of Brahmanism are rejected by Buddha. He does not accept the privileges granted to the classes of Brahmanism. They are not given superiority. He embraces (loves) the people called pariah. Human beings are not considered to be holy creatures. On the contrary, he claims that human beings are very deficient but they can get rid of their sins by being satisfied with the least amount, by behaving friendly towards everybody, and by fasting. It is a reality that there are some people among the Buddhists who perform amazing miracles as a result of making their nafs (a force within man prompting him to do evil) bright by fasting for a long time under very heavy conditions. This is why some senses within these people become so prominent that they can carry out some astonishing skills supernaturally. But these skills have no connection with religion or with love of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Their souls are empty. For, Buddhism does not contain belief in (Allah).

Burma, an Asian country between Thailand, Bangladesh and Malaysia, has a nescient and immoral population. It was five hundred and forty-three years before the Christian Era when Buddhism arrived in that country. Being utterly devoid of right and mercy, which are indispensable components of a heavenly

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religion, it spread quickly among the wild people. Ten centuries later Muslim merchants from India brought Islam with them. Islamic knowledge and Islamic morals also spread. Then came the British, to exploit the natural sources, which they ungratefully paid back with their worldwide policy: Using all sorts of mendacity, weaponry, espionage and missionary trickery and coercion, they disseminated a biased aversion to Islam. When the British left the country after the Second World War, what they left behind was a horde of wild beasts attacking Islam. As we learn from the letters coming from the religious men who managed to escape the cruelties, the Burmese squads were raiding the houses, slaughtering the men, taking away the women and girls, perpetrating all sorts of indecency, butchering their private parts, carved their eyes out, and finally leaving them for dead. We believe that Allâhu ta’âlâ anaesthetizes martyrs against the pain that their wounds and broken bones will cause. Their only desire is to “come back to the world and enjoy once again the delicate flavour tasted during martyrdom.” On the other hand, the Burmese villains who executed the British plans against the Muslims will join their British coaches as they suffer the divine torment in both this world and the next.

Confucius, a Chinese philosopher, was seventy years old when he passed away four hundred and seventy-nine years before the Christian Era. He attained fame with the books he wrote on ethics state administration. Afterwards, his philosophy was mutated into a religious sect. His books do not contain any information pertaining to heavenly religions.

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