Srila Prabhupada on Islam , understanding Bhavisya Purana and 9/11

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There is a very nice book on line I am assuming this was done by Navaratna das
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7235180/Prabhupada-on-Islam


He is preaching to the muslims that religion is for peace and not for war, and we should be tolerant of other religions, I am still reading it and I am learning a lot.
Lets see what Srila Prabhupada has said about Islam


: 1. "Hazrat Muhammad, the inaugurator of the Islam religion, I accept him as an empowered servant of God because he preached God-consciousness in those parts of the world and induced them to accept the authority of God. He is accepted as the servant of God and we have all respect for him."? ( Letter, 2-4-1976)

2. So therefore, by that symptom, we accept Lord Jesus Christ as Saktyaves avatara, or Hazrat Muhammad, he's also. Because these two religious leaders of the world, they preached about the glorification of the Supreme Lord. And they sacrificed everything for preaching the glories of the Lord. Therefore... And their influence and their followers, there are... These are the symptoms by which we can understand that Jesus Christ and Hazrat Muhammad was, were Saktyaves avataras. ( CC Madhya-lila 20.367-84)

3. "Vedas means the books of transcendental knowledge. Not only the Bhagavad Gita, even the Bible or the Quran, they are also."? (lecture 29-7-68) 4. Srila Prabhupada:No, no. Christianity is Vaisnavism.

Dr. Patel: Vaisnavism? Absolutely Vaisnavism.

Srila Prabhupada:Islam is also Vaisnavism.

Dr. Patel: Mohammedanism is not Vaisnavism.

Srila Prabhupada:No, no. Caitanya Mahaprabhu had talked with the Pathanas.

He proved that "Your religion is Vaisnavism." (February 17, 1974, Bombay) 5. "Chaitanya Mahaprabhu proved devotional service from the Quran.

So, it requires a devotee who can explain God from any Godly literature ( Morning Walk, June 6, 1974, Geneva)

6. "Then Islam is Vaishnava dharma in a crude form like christianty." (room conversation, Tehran 14-3-75


They accept God. They are also our brothers because they accept God. They are not atheist. Atheist don't accept God. "there is no God"? say the atheist.

But here they are theists. They accept God. They want to please God. They go to the church, go to mosques, offer prayers. Prayers is also bhakti, devotional service. The Christian way or the Muslim way is to offer prayer. The Muslims offer obeisences & offer prayer. So that is also Bhakti (devotion). The Christians also do that, so that is also bhakti. And they accept God; We accept God. So there is no difference. But the only point is who is that God. ( room conversation, Tehran 14-3-75


My mission is not turn any one from the affiliation of a particular religion but I want to let them know more knowledge about God and devotion." 6-11-1965, (letters) Srila Prabhupada.


"Actually, we are not teaching a particular type of faith. We are teaching the post graduate studies of all religions:we are teaching people how to love God and who is the man that will deny this principle?" 5-12-68, Srila Prabhupada.

I found this nice link about being a vegetarian from the Quaran,written by Navaratna Prabhu:

http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/gss/sadhu/religions/quran.htm

By Hare Krishna Turkey

According to the Holy Qur’an, there are two ways of advancement - through increasing the propensity to enjoy and decreasing the propensity to enjoy. On the path of decreasing attachment, the killing of animals is not recommended.
In the Holy Qur’an we can find following ayats: “Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring, and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and land. That is comfort of the life of the world. Allah! With Him is a more excellent abode.
Say: Shall I inform you of something better than that? For the righteous are Gardens in nearness to their Lord with rivers flowing beneath. Therein is their eternal home with pure companions and the good pleasure of Allah. Allah is Seer of His servants.” (3.14-15)
“Some of you desired the world, and some of you desired the Hereafter.” (3.152) Thus the Holy Qur’an described two class of people: 1. Those who are attached to sense gratification and desire of the heavenly enjoyment; and 2. Those who renounce everything and strive for the love of God.
For the general masses of people who are still unable to control their senses (tongue) provision for eating meat has been granted but it is not recommended so rules and regulations exist to slowly help one give up such bad habit (taste). But for those who desire the highest perfection of life, love of God, meat eating is forbidden.
For example, we can find the following ayats in the Holy Qur’an:
“Forbidden to you (for food) are meat of dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which has been invoked the name of other than Allah; and the dead through beating; that which has been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by being gored to death; that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it (in due form); that which is sacrificed on stone (altars); (forbidden) also is the division (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety.” (5.3)
Thus we can understand from this verse of the Holy Qur’an that not every meat is permitted to eat. Only meat of an animal which is expressly killed for food with the Takbir, or the solemn mode of slaughter (zabh) in the name of Allah duly pronounced on it. This means that killing animals for food is a personal affair. It does not suggest opening slaughterhouses and killing hundreds of thousands of animals in an organized way, everyday. Those who want to eat meat, should do this the proper way individually, because everyone needs to take responsibility for his own actions. On the Day of Judgment, all dead creatures will come to life and will take vengeance on those who had either teased them or killed them. This concession is given by Allah to those who cannot restrain from meat eating. By eating halal, lawful meat they will gradually subdue their passion and give up meat eating. This will help to develop fine spiritual sentiments, namely love for Allah.
Besides this it is mentioned in sura “Al-Ma’ida” that within the limits of Mecca, most holy place, slaughtering of animals is prohibited:
“Animals of the chase are forbidden while you are in the Sacred Precincts or in the state of pilgrimage.” (5.1)
This means that hunting and the use of game are forbidden “while you are hurumun,” i.e., while you are
1. in the Sacred Precincts, Mecca or
2. in the special pilgrimage garb (ihram).
It is also explained in the sura “Al-Ma’ida” that:
“O you who believe! Kill not game while in the Sacred Precincts or in the state of pilgrimage. If any of you does so intentionally, the compensation is an offering, brought to the Ka’ba, of a domestic animal equivalent to the one he killed. As adjudged by two just men among you; or by way of atonement, the feeding of the poor persons; or its equivalent in fasts: that he may taste of the penalty of his deed. Allah forgives what has past; but for repetition Allah will punish him for Allah is Exalted, and Lord of Retribution.” (5.95)
This means that if someone kills an animal inadvertently within the limits of Mecca, one should then leave one of his pet animals there. In case one has no pet animals, one should give in charity food equivalent in value to the price of the killed animal. Otherwise the offender must fast as many days as the number of the poor who would have been fed under the second alternative. Thus killing animals is a sin and therefore, it is prohibited in a holy place like Mecca.
In sura “As-Saffat” of the Holy Qur’an there are following narration:
“He (Ibrahim) said: ‘I will go to my Lord! He will surely guide me! O my Lord! Grant me a righteous (son)!’
So We gave him the good news of forbearing son.
Then, when (his son) was old enough to work with him, (Ibrahim) said: ‘O my dear son, I have seen in a dream that I must sacrifice you. Now see what is your view!’ (The son) said: ‘O my father! Do as you are commanded. You will find me, if Allah so wills one of the steadfast.’ So when they both submitted (to Allah), and he had laid him prostrate on his forehead (for sacrifice),
We called out to him, ‘O Ibrahim!
You has already fulfilled the dream!’ Thus indeed do We reward those who do right.
For this was a clear test.
Then we ransomed him with a tremendous victim.
And We left for him among generations (to come) in later times:
‘Peace and salutation to Ibrahim!’” (37.99-109)
Thus Ibrahim (Abraham) was born in Ur of the Chaldees, a place on the lower reaches of the Euphrates, not a hundred miles from the Persian Gulf. Where the worship of the sun, moon and stars was the prevailing form of religion. Ibrahim revolted against this quite early in life. They also had deities in their temples, which probably represented heavenly bodies and celestial winged creatures. He was still a youth when he broke the false deities. After this he was marked down as a rebel and persecuted. He was thrown into the fire. But the fire became cool by the order of Allah and Ibrahim was saved. Then he left his ancestral lands, and avoiding the Syrian desert, came to the fertile lands of Aram or Syria. This was the Hijrat (Flight) of Ibrahim. He left his people and his land, because the Truth was dearer to him than the ancestral falsehoods of his people. He trusted himself to Allah, and under Allah’s guidance he laid the foundations for great people.
This was in the fertile land of Syria and Palestine when a boy was born, the first-born son of Ibrahim, namely Ismail. The name itself is from the root Sami’a, to hear, because Allah had heard Ibrahim’s prayer (The Qur’an. 37.100). Ibrahim’s age when Ismail was born from his maidservant Hajar was 86 (Gen. 16.16). The boy’s character was to be Halim, “forbearing”. This title is also applied to Ibrahim (The Qur’an. 9.114; 11.75). It refers to the patient way in which both father and son cheerfully offered to suffer any self-sacrifice in order to obey the command of Allah.
Once, after Ismail had grown up to the age of discretion, Ibrahim had a dream that he now had to offer his only son in sacrifice. The command was conveyed to him via a dream. It was a test of the devotion for both father and son. Ibrahim consulted his son. The son readily consented, and offered to stand true to his promis if his self-sacrifice was really required. Actually, the trial and sacrifice was demanded of both Ibrahim and Ismail. Ibrahim had to sacrifice his only dearmost son and Ismail had to sacrifice his dear life. Finally this sacrifice was about to take place in the valley of Mina, six miles north of Mecca. Ibrahim was ready to sacrifice his son but his hand did not act. Then he covered his eyes with cloth took a knife in his hand, and tried to kill Ismail. But at that moment Allah replaced Ismail with a fine sheep or ram. So there was a ram instead of his son. Thus the son was saved and the ram was sacrificed (some scholars say that the ram was also saved).
Since that day, the ‘Id Day or Day of Sacrifice came into practice. On this day in the valley of Mina, six miles north of Mecca, a commemoration sacrifice is annually celebrated as a rite of the Hajj on the tenth of Zul-Hijjah in Memory of this Sacrifice of Ibrahim and Ismail. This festival is also celebrated by all Muslims around the world. Hundreds of thousands of animals are annually slaughtered on this day. But let us carefully consider what was the main object of Allah’s teaching on that occasion. Did Allah ask for Ibrahim’s dearmost thing or did He ask for a ram. If Allah-Taala had liked a ram, He would have asked the ram itself. But merely to examine the devotion of Ibrahim and Ismail, He had ordered this sacrifice to test them both, and to save the son of Ibrahim, He had replaced a ram for Ismail. Now, just think carefully, to try to please Allah-Taala, instead of dedicating one’s dearmost object, to kill a ram is how justifiable?
This whole event is symbolical. As it is proclaimed in the Holy Qur’an:
“It is not their meat nor their blood, that reaches Allah; it is your piety that reaches Him.” (22.37) Thus Allah does not require the flesh and blood of animals, much less of human beings. No one should suppose that meat or blood is acceptable to God. It was a Pagan fancy that Allah could be pleased by blood sacrifice. But Allah does accept the offering of our hearts. Allah does not delight in flesh and blood. But He does desire the giving of our whole being to Allah, the practical symbol of which is that we should give up something which is very dear to us, if duty requires that sacrifice. It was indeed a great occasion, when two men, the father and the son, showed the example of self-sacrifice in the service of Allah which is needed to qualify one for the supreme goal of life. This example made it clear that the only sacrifice which God requires from man is the Surrender of his will and purpose - i.e. Al-Islam.
Actually qurban, the animal slaughtering process ordained for Muslims, have an esoteric and exoteric meaning. While qurban externally refers only to Muslim dietary laws, inwardly qurban requires that we sacrifice our life to the devotion and service of God, and that we sacrifice our beastly qualities instead of the life of an animal. “Qurban is not slaughtering chickens and cows and goats,” explains Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. “There are four hundred trillion, ten thousand beasts here in the heart which must be slaughtered. They must be slaughtered in the qalb [the inner heart]. After these things have been slaughtered, what is eaten can then be distinguished as either halal [permissible] or haram [forbidden].” Ultimately, the great ustad [preceptor] concludes, “everything that is seen in the world is haram. What is seen in Allah [God] alone is halal. Please eat that.” (M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Asma’ ul-Husna: The 99 Beautiful Names of Allah, 1979, p. 181)
In the traditional qurban, the prayer known as the Kalimah is recited to remove the baser qualities of the animal. The recitation of the powerful Third Kalimah will not only purify the animal slaughtered for consumption, but also all those involved with the sacrifice, so that they will no longer want to slaughter animals. This will only work, however, if the prayer is said with pure devotion.
In Islam, sacrificial animal slaughter is a detailed process. Factually the whole procedure is meant to minimize the killing of animals. Thus, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen explains:
“While you recite the Kalimah, you must complete the severing in three strokes of the knife, one for each recitation. The knife has to be swept around three times, and it must not touch the bone. It must be extremely sharp, and the length is prescribed according to each animal - so much for a fowl, so much for a goat, so much for a cow. ... Also, the animal must not regurgitate any food, and it must not make any noise; otherwise, it becomes haram.
The person who holds the animal and the person who cuts it must always observe the five times prayer. Therefore, it must be the Imam and the mu’azzin who perform the qurban, because very often they are the only ones who regularly observe the five times prayer. This also means that the qurban must take place near a mosque where two such people can always be found. Before beginning the slaughter, they must first perform their ablutions, and then they must recite the kalimah three times and feed water to the animal which is to be sacrificed. The neck of the animal must be turned in the direction of the Qiblah [Mecca], so that the eyes of the sacrificial animal look into the eyes of the person who is doing the sacrifice. The person must look into the eyes of the animal and then, saying the kalimah, he must cut the neck. And he must continue to look into the eyes of the animal until its soul departs, repeating the Zikr all the while. Then after the soul has departed, he must say the kalimah once again and wash the knife. Only then can he move on to the next animal. He has to look into the animal’s eyes, he has to watch the tears of the animal, and he has to watch the animal’s eyes until it dies - hopefully, his heart will change.” (M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Asma’ ul-Husna: The 99 Beautiful Names of Allah, 1979, p. 182)
Once, Allah told the Holy Prophet Muhammad, “With this qurban the killing will be greatly reduced, for where they used to kill 1,000 or 2,000 in one day, they will now be able to slaughter only ten or fifteen animals. If they started after morning prayers, it would be ten o’clock by the time they are ready to begin, and they could slaughter only until eleven o’clock when they must prepare for the next prayer. In addition, it takes about fifteen or twenty minutes for each animal, because he has to wait until the soul has departed.” This is how Allah instructed the Holy Prophet.
Then the people complained, “How can we do this? We can kill only so few! Our enjoyments and our festivals are being curtailed.”
But Allah said, “Each one of you does not need to sacrifice one animal; you do not need to sacrifice one animal for each family. In place of forty fowls, kill one goat. In place of forty goats, kill ten cows. And in place of forty cows, kill ten camels. Sacrifice ten camels and then share the meat among the different families.” So in place of four hundred animals only forty might be killed. The killing was reduced by that much. Thus, Allah passed down the commands to the Holy Prophet to reduce the taking of lives.
So, the conclusion is that if one understand the qurban from within with wisdom, its purpose is to reduce killing the poor animals. But if one look at it from outside, it is meant to supply desire with food, to supply the craving of the base desires.
Thus, the esoteric imperative behind Islamic dietary laws is that Muslims aspire after compassion and mercy, first by minimizing the amount of animals one is able to kill (by following all the regulations), and then, it is to be hoped, by giving it up altogether.
It is mentioned in sura “Al-An’am,” or “Cattle” that:
“There is not an animal on the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are people like unto you.” (6.38)
Thus “animals living on the earth” include those living in the water - fishes, reptiles, crustaceans, insects, as well as four-footed beasts. Life on the wing separately mentioned. “Tair,” which is ordinarily translated as “bird,” is anything that flies, including mammals like bats. In our pride we may exclude animals from our purview, but they all live a life, social and individual, like ourselves, and all life is subject to the Plan and Will of Allah. We have no right to destroy or kill these creatures, even flies and insects what to speak of birds and beasts. We never creates them to destroy. The Holy Qur’an said that they are people like you. They are also citizens of this planet and different countries. They are also under the protection of God and Governments. It is the duty of government to protect it’s subjects, which includes the innocent helpless animals, and punish those who torture and kill them.
It is clearly mentioned in the Holy Qur’an what kind of food Allah creates for the human beings: “Therewith He causes corn to grow for you, and the olive and date-palm and grapes and all kinds of fruit. Truly, in this is a sign for people who reflect.” (16.11)
“A sign for them is the dead earth. We revive it and We bring forth from it grain so that they eat thereof.
And We produce therein gardens of the date-palm and grapes, and We have caused springs of water to gush forth therein.
That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands made it not. Will they not, then, give thanks?” (36.33-35)
“It is God Who sends down water out of the sky, and with it quickens the earth after it is dead. Surely, in that is a sign for people who have ears to hear. In cattle, too, there is a lesson for you: We give you to drink of what is in their bellies, between filth and blood - pure milk, sweet to those who drink. And we give you the fruits of the date-palms and the vines from which you derive sweet-tasting liquid and fair provision. Indeed, this is a sign for men of understanding. And your Lord inspires the bees, saying, ‘Build your homes in the mountains, in the trees and in the thatch of roots; then feed on every kind of fruit and follow the ways of your Lord, so easy to go upon.’ Then there comes forth out of their bellies a liquid of various colors wherein is healing for men. Truly, in this a sign for people who reflect.” (16.65-69)
From these ayats it is obvious that Allah creates milk, honey, corn, grain, olive, dates, grapes and all kinds of fruit as food for mankind. Verily it is a sign for people who have an understanding. We should be thankful to -- .Allah for His mercy and not ungratefully shed blood of innocent helpless animals simply to please the uncontrolled tongue.
The Holy Qur’an offers concessions as intermediary stages toward a pure and spiritual diet: “O you who believe! Eat of the good things with which we have supplied you, and give God thanks if you are His worshippers. Only that which dies of itself, blood, and swine’s flesh, and that over which any others name than that of God’s has been invoked, has God forbidden you.” (Qur’an 5.1) Here the Qur’an clearly states that pork is impure and that animal blood is not fit for human consumption. The Muslims, then, run into a dietary contradiction: blood is forbidden - it is impossible to completely separate blood from animal flesh - so if one eats meat, blood is being consumed as well. In the words of the Holy Qur’an, this, indeed, is a “portent for people who think.”
Ultimately, the Holy Qur’an encourages Muslims to eat wholesome, healthful foods. In describing lawful and unlawful foods, the Holy Qur’an emphasizes that “He [the Holy Prophet] makes lawful to them the good things of life and he forbids them the bad things.” (Qur’an 7.157) Once the Holy Prophet Muhammad orders Hazrat Ali: “Don’t make your stomach a grave yard of innocent birds and animals.” From that day Hazrat Ali had faithfully followed this instruction. Another time the Holy Prophet Muhammad said:
“Whoever is kind to the lesser creatures is kind to himself.”
It is explained in the Hadith (traditions):
Once the Prophet passed by certain people who were shooting arrows at a ram, and hated that, saying, “Maim not the brute beasts.”
Another time, the Prophet, seen wiping the face of his horse with his wrapper, and being questioned in regard to it, said, “At night I received a reprimand from God in regard to my horse.”
A man once robbed some eggs from the nest of a bird, whereupon the Prophet had them restored to the nest. “Fear God in these dumb animals,” said the Prophet, “and ride them when they are fit to be ridden - and get off them when they are tired.”
Verily, are there rewards for our doing good to quadrupeds and giving them water to drink?” asked the followers. And the Prophet answered, “There are rewards for benefiting every animal having a moist liver.” (M. Hafiz Syed, Thus Speak Muhammed, Madras, 1962, p. 6.) The Holy Prophet Muhammad always stressed the importance to show mercy to the lesser creatures. We should deal with them as if they are our younger brothers. If younger brother is less intelligent, it does not mean that we have right to kill him but more so we have a duty to protect him. The father will never be happy if his elder, more intelligent son will kill the youngest son because he is less intelligent and more weak. Similarly Allah is never happy when He observes humans killing and giving pain, and suffering to His lesser creatures. According to the Hadith, the Holy Prophet Muhammad said:
“One who kills unnecessarily, even a sparrow will be questioned by Allah on the day of Judgment.”
“One who takes pity on cutting the head even of a sparrow, and feels compassion towards the sparrow, Allah will similarly show mercy towards him on the day of Judgment.”
“Killing any living beings besides those who are inflicting pain is forbidden.” (O. Gudratov, N. Gudratov, Muhammad Peygambarin: Hayati va Kalamlari, Baki, 1990, p. 114, 147) “If the beasts will know about their inevitable death, as humans do, they will not eat flesh.” (Mahammad Ali, Muhammad Peygambarin Hayati, Baki, 1993, p. 150)
Biographies of the Holy Prophet Muhammad include narrations that clearly depict his love for animals. For instance, Margoliouth, one of the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s chief biographers, writes, “His humanity extended itself to the lower creation. He forbade the employment of towing birds as targets for marksmen and remonstrated with those who ill-treated their camels. When some of his followers had set fire to an ant-hill he compelled them to extinguish it. . . . Acts of cruelty were swept away by him.” (V. A. Holmes-Gore, These We Have Not Loved, London, 1946, pp.6-7.)
Other biographers, such as Dr. M. Hafiz Syed, point out that the Holy Prophet Muhammad instructed those who eat meat to wash out their mouth before going to pray. While it is certainly a Muslim custom to clean one’s mouth before going to prayer, many biographers say that only meat is emphasized in this connection and not any other food. (M. Hafiz Syed, Thus Spake Muhammed, Madras, 1962, p. 6)
The Holy Prophet Muhammad always showed the greatest compassion - “universal compassion” - and he exhorted his followers to do the same. A touching example from his life shows how far his empathy extended. Awaking from a nap one afternoon, he found a small, sick cat fast asleep on the edge of his cloak. The Holy Prophet cut off his garment so that the cat could sleep undisturbed. Is this a man who would advocate the unnecessary slaughter of harmless beasts? “Show sympathy to others,” the Holy Prophet Muhammad taught, “especially to those who are weaker than you.” (Bilkiz Alladin, The Story of Mohammed The Prophet, Delhi, 1979, pp. 12-13)
In one popular Hadith (tradition), the Holy Prophet Muhammad is depicted as having rebuked his followers for not showing universal compassion. “But we do show compassion,” they insisted,” - to our wives, children and relatives.” The Holy Prophet Muhammad responded, “It is not this to which I refer. I am speaking of universal mercy.”
The Holy Prophet Muhammad’s earliest biographers indicate that he preferred vegetarian foods, saying that he liked milk diluted with water, yogurt with butter or nuts, and cucumbers with dates. His favorite fruits, which he was known to subsist on for weeks at a time, were pomegranates, grapes and figs, and he liked a morning drink of soaked, crushed dates. He was particularly fond of honey, often eating it mixed with vinegar, and he is quoted as saying that in a house where there is vinegar and honey, there will certainly be the blessings of the Lord. He also liked a preparation called hees, made from butter, dates and yogurt. According to extensive biographical accounts, furthermore, the Holy Prophet Muhammad has been quoted as saying, “Where there is an abundance of vegetables, hosts of angels will descend on that place.”
The Holy Prophet Muhammad’s death emphasizes the harmfulness of meat-eating. The story goes that a non-Muslim woman invited the Holy Prophet and some of his companions to a meal and served them poisoned meat. The Holy Prophet Muhammad knew by spiritual insight that the meat was poisoned, for he spat out piece of meat which he chewed, but one of his companions died on the spot. Although it was not his custom to eat any food prepared by non-Muslim, on this occasion, mysteriously, he did. The poisoned meat put him in a sickbed for about two years, and finally, in A.D. 632, he died. According to some scholars, the Holy Prophet Muhammad ate the poisoned meat just to show the stubborn masses the harmfulness of meat-eating.
Those Muslims who go for Haj (pilgrimage) to Mecca, wear a simple garment of unstitched cloth in two pieces which is called ihram. The putting on of the pilgrim garb (ihram) is symbolical of his renouncing the vanities of the world. From the time he put on this religious dress, absolutely no killing is allowed: not mosquitoes, bugs, grasshoppers, or any other living creatures. If a pilgrim sees an insect on the ground, he will gesture to stop his comrades from inadvertently stepping on it. After this and until the end of the pilgrimage he must not wear other clothes, or ornaments, anoint his hair, use perfumes, hunt, or do other prohibited acts. If any louse appears on that ihram it is not thrown on the ground but allowed to remain where it is. If the throwing away of a insignificant living being like louse is forbidden in Islam just think how much inauspicious is killing of animals.
It is said in Aine-Akbari that on several occasions such as from Friday to Sunday and eclipse days Akbar abstained from taking meat.
Saints of Islam have laid great stress on leading a noble life, a life of renunciation and compassion, eating simple foods and abstaining from meat. They themselves avoided any meat eating. Sheikh Ismail, Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, Hazrat Nizammuddin Aulia, Bu Ali Qalandas, Shah Inayat, Mir Dad, Shah Abdul Karim etc., were
Muslim saints whose path was pious living, centered on self-restraint, love and affection for all and vegetarian eating. They said:
“Ta bayabin dar bahishte aden ja, shafkate banumaye ba khalke Khuda” -
“If you want to live in heaven for all time to come, then behave in a spirit of compassion and sympathy with the entire creation of God.
The famous Muslim saint, Mir Dad, said that anyone who eats the flesh of any living being shall have to repay it with his own flesh. He who breaks another living being’s bone shall have his own bones broken. Every drop of blood shed, will have to be accounted for by one’s own. Because that is the eternal law.
The great Muslim saint Sarmad condemned meat-eating by saying that the light of life is asleep in metals, is dreaming in plants, is awake in animals and is completely alert in human beings. Kabir, addressing Muslims, makes it clear that even fasting (Roza) is in vain if its practitioner lets his tongue dictate the killing of living beings for the sake of its taste. Allah will not be pleased this way.
During Silloh also no meat is taken, because it is said, that meat is a bad food which disturbs the prayers. Everyone knows that meat eating increases passion. It is very difficult to pray and concentrate the mind on Allah in a passionate condition. Therefore it is recommended by great saints of all ages that vegetarian food is much more appropriate for spiritual practices. If one wants to increase peace of mind and concentration on Allah he should decrease or, better, stop meat eating. It is practical advise from which everyone will get immense benefit.
Summarizing the above mentioned statements, we can easily and naturally conclude that meat eating is a great impediment on the path of self-realization. Those who are sincerely trying for spiritual progress should restrain from meat eating. On the path of decreasing material attachments and increasing spiritual attachment to Allah, restraining meat eating is compulsory.

Cow Killing
In the Qur’an not one single verse allows killing cows or bulls. But very clear instruction is given about what is intended for human as food:
"And We (Allah ) said: O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Garden, and eat you freely of the fruits thereof where you will." (2.35)
"And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) to those who believe and do good works, that theirs are Gardens beneath which rivers flow; every time they are fed with fruits therefrom." (2.25)
"Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth, and causes water to descend from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you." (14.32)
“Who has appointed the earth a resting-place for you, and the sky a canopy; and causes water to pour down from the sky, thereby producing fruits as food for you.” (2.22)
From these four ayats of the Qur‘an it is obvious that when Allah created Adam and Eve, He gave them in food, the fruits. And when the pious will go to paradise they will have their food in the form of fruits. Then when Allah created earth He "produced fruits as food for" mankind. Also from the very life of the Hazrat Muhammad, we can see His daily food was bread, milk and palm-dates. Sometimes in His life he sacrificed sheep or camels, but never cows or bulls.
There is only one story in the Holy Qur’an which describes the sacrifice of a cow: “When Moses said to his people: ‘Allah commands you that you sacrifice a cow.’ They said: ‘Does you make game of us?’ He answered: ‘Allah forbid that I should be among the foolish!’ They said: ‘Pray for us unto your Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is.’ (Moses) answered: ‘He says, that the cow should be neither too old nor too young, but of middling age; now do what you are commanded!’ They said: ‘Pray for us unto your Lord that He make clear to us of what color she is.’ (Moses) answered: ‘He says, that she is a yellow cow. Bright is her color; gladdening beholders.’ They said: ‘Pray for us unto your Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is. To us are all cows alike; if Allah wills, we may led aright.’ (Moses) answered: ‘He says, that she is a cow not trained to till the soil or water the fields; whole and without a mark.’ They said: ‘Now has you brought the truth.’ Then they sacrificed her; though they scarcely did it.’ (2.67-71)
This story was accepted in Jewish traditions, which are themselves based on certain sacrificial directions in the Old Testament. The cow story of Jewish tradition is based on Num. 19.1-10, in which Moses and Aaron ordered the Israelites to sacrifice a red cow without a spot. Thus Moses announced the sacrifice to the Israelites, and they treated it as a jest. When Moses continued solemnly to ask for the sacrifice, they put him off on one pretext followed by another, asking a number of questions which they could have answered themselves if they had listened to Moses’s directions. Their questions were carping criticisms rather than the result of a desire for information. It was a mere thin pretence that they were genuinely seeking for guidance. When at last they were driven into a corner, they made the sacrifice, but if they did this willingly then the sacrifice would have been more efficacious for their purification from sin. The cow’s body was to be burnt and the ashes were to be kept for the purification of the congregation from sin.
We can see and learn from this narration that the killing of a cow was very dangerous and not part of the teachings. So much so that the people were very hesitant to commit such an act even when the order came from the high authorities, Prophet Moses. So this particular sacrifice was not carried whimsically but with due consideration. We should understand also, the cow was not simply killed for the sake of eating but the body of the cow was burnt and the ashes were to be used for the higher purpose of purifying the people from their sins. It is very important to mention that in the present age also, cow sacrifices is forbidden, because no qualified persons are available to conduct such a sacrifices.
Thus by reading the Holy Qur’an we can conclude that cow killing is not sanctioned in the Holy Qur’an and the only cow sacrifice which has been described was not meant for meat eating but for purification from the sins.
The Iranian scholar Al-Ghazzali (1058-1111 AD) was one of the most brilliant philosophers of Islam. He has stated that besides pieces of bread whatever we eat is simply to satisfy our urges. At the age of 28, he headed the institute of Islam at Baghdad. His main book, Ihya Ulum ul-Din - The Revival of Religious Sciences is highly respected. In this book (part 2, page 23, lines 17-19) the detrimental effects of beef, and the virtues of ghee and milk from a cow are stated as follows:
“The meat of cow is marz (disease), it’s milk is safa (health) and it’s ghee is dava (medicine).” Is it not more intelligent to protect cows and use their milk and ghee for our benefit? The cow is considered a mother of mankind because she gives us a valuable product such as milk. As a mother feeds her child with her breast milk similarly the cow feeds mankind with her milk. It has been scientifically proven that if one regularly drinks cow milk his fine brain tissues develop. As a result of this one’s memory capacity increases, favoring remembrance of Allah. Therefore the cow and it’s milk is very important for proper development of human society and killing the cow is the greatest sin. Those who are eager to eat meat, they can eat less important animals like sheep and goats but cows should be protected.
A Imam of the Shah Jehan Mosque in London, England, Al Hafiz B. A. Masri says that the Qur’an itself is very specific about prevention of cruelty to animals. Muslims, who form one-third of the world’s total population, need to begin a movement for the prevention of cruelty to animals based on Islamic tenets. It was time to ensure that all precepts laid down in the Qur’an against cruelty to animals were followed strictly everywhere in the world. Therefore he wants to start a unite of the Society for Protection of Cruelty to Animals in the Islamic world. Animal welfare worker Al Hafiz Masri would love to see the world embrace vegetarianism.
In his book Islamic concern for Animals, Al Hafiz Marsi has expressed sorrow about the excessive killing of animals in the name of religion. Quoting from the Holy Qur’an Majeed and the teachings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, he described all acts of torturing of animals, and even keeping birds in cages as sinful. According to him even the cutting of trees is prohibited in Islam. On page 18 the Imam Saheb has repeated the saying of the Holy Prophet Muhammad: “There is no one who kills even a sparrow or anything smaller, without its deserving it, but God will question him about it.” “He who takes pity even on a sparrow and spares its life. Allah will be merciful on him on the day of Judgment.” The Imam Marsi is himself a vegetarian and advises everyone to adopt vegetarianism.
Originally put together by Akif Manaf Jabir, Ph.D.
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Srila Prabhupada : Islam is also Vaishnavism.
Dr. Patel : Mohammedanism is not Vaishnavism.
Srila Prabhupada : No, no. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu talked with the Pathanas (Muslims). He proved that “Your religion is Vaishnavism.” (Morning walk. Bombay, 17/02/74)

from http://krishna.org/shri-chaitanya-and-the-koran/
The following is from the Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya Lila, Vol.7. The Chapter is titled Lord Caitanya’s Visit to Sri Vrindavan. It clearly presents the Gaudiya Vaisnava conception in regards to the Koran and Islam. (Verses 159 thru 213)
While waiting, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, understanding that the others were fatigued,took them all beneath a tree and sat down.
There were many cows grazing near that tree, and the Lord was very pleased to see them.
Suddenly a cowherd boy blew on his flute, and immediatley the Lord was struck with ecstatic love.
Filled with ecstatic love, the Lord fell unconscious to the ground. He foamed about the mouth and His breathing stopped.
While the Lord was unconscious, ten cavalry soldiers belonging to the Mohammedan Pathana military order rode up and dismounted.
Seeing the Lord unconscious, the soldiers thought,”This Sanyasi must have possessed a large quantity of gold.”
“These four rogues here must have taken away that sanyasi’s riches after killing Him by making him take the poison dhutura.”
Thinking this, the Pathana soldiers arrested the four persons and decided to kill them. because of this, the two Bengalis began to tremble.
The devotee Krsnadasa, who belonged to the Rajaputa race, was very fearless. The Sanodiya brahmana was also fearless, and he spoke very bravely.
The Brahmana said,” You Pathana soldiers are all undr the protection of your King. Let us go to your commander and get his decision.”
“This Sanyasi is my Spiritual Master, and I am from Mathura. I am a brahmana and I know many people who are in the service of the Mohammedan king.”
“This sanyasi sometimes falls unconscious due to the influence of a disease. Please sit down here, and you will see that He will very soon regain consciousness and His normal condition.”
“Sit down here for a while and keep us all under arrest. When the Sanyasi regains His senses, you can question Him.Then, if you like, you can kill us all.”
The Pathana soldiers said,” You are all rogues. Two of you belong to the district of Mathura, and the other two, who are trembling, belong to Bengal.”
Rajaputa Krsnadasa said,” I have my home here, and I also have about 200 Turkish soldiers and about 100 cannons.”
“If I call loudly, they will come immediatley to kill you and plunder your horses and saddles.”
“The Bengali pilgrims are not rogues. You are rogues, for you want to kill the pilgrims and plunder them.”
Upon hearing this challenge, the Pathana soldiers became hesitant.Then suddenly Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu regained consciuosness.
Coming to His senses, the Lord very loudly began chanting the Holy Names, “HARI!HARI!”The Lord raised His arms upward and beagn to dance in ecstatic love.
When the Lord shouted very loudly in ecstatic love, it appeared to the Mohammedan soldiers that their hearts were struck by thunderbolts.
Seized by fear, all the Pathana soldiers immediatley released the four persons. Thus Sri Caitanya mahaprabhu did not see His personal associates under arrest.
At that time, Balabadra Bhattacarya went to Sri Caitanya and made Him sit down. Seeing the Mohammedan soldiers, the Lord regained His normal senses.
All the Mohammedan soldiers then came before the Lord, worshipped His lotus feet and said,”Here are four rogues.”
“These four rogues have made you take dhutura. Having made You mad, they have taken all your possesions.”
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said,” These are not rogues. They are My associates. Being a Sanyasi beggar, I do not possess anything.”
“Due to epilepsy, I sometimes fall unconscious. Out of their mercy, these four men maintain Me.”
Among the Muslims was a grave person who was wearing a black dress. People called him a saintly person.
The heart of that saintly Muslim softened upon seeing Sri Caitanya. He wanted to talk to Him and establish impersonal Brahman on the basis of his own scripture, the Koran.
When that person established the impersonal (Formless) Brahman conception of the Absolute Truth on the basis of the Koran, Sri Caitanya refuted his argument.
Whatever arguments he put forward, the Lord refuted them all. Finally the person became stunned and could not speak.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said,” The Koran has certainly established impersonalism, but at the end it refutes that impersonalism and establishes the personal God.”
The Koran accepts the fact that ultimately there is only One God. He is full of opulence, and His bodily complexion is Blackish.”
(A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada writes in his purport to this verse: The revealed scripture of the Mohammedans is the Koran. There is one Muslim sampradaya (school of thought) known as the Sufis. The Sufis accept impersonalism, believing in the oneness of the living entity with the Absolute Truth. Their supreme slogan is “analahak.” The Sufis Sampradaya was certainly derived from Adi Sankaracarya’s Advaitist impersonalism.)
“According to the Koran, the Lord has a supreme, blissful, transcendental body. He is the Absolute Truth, the all-pervading, omniscient and eternal being. He is the origin of everything.”
“Creation, maintainance and dissolution come from Him. He is the original shelter of all gross and subtle cosmic manifestations.”
“The Lord is the Supreme Truth worshipable by everyone. He is the cause of all causes. By engaging in His devotional service, the living entity is relieved from material existance.”
“No conditioned soul can get out of material bondage without serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Love at His lotus feet is the ultimate goal of life.”
(Purport by Prabhupada: According to the Muslim scripture, without evadat, offering prayers at a mosque or elsewhere 5 times daily (namaja), one cannot be successful in life. Sri Caitanya pointed out that in the revealed scripture of the Mohammedans, love of Godhead is the ultimate goal. Karma yoga and Jnana yoga are certainly described in the Koran, but ultimately the Koran states that the ultimate goal is the offering of prayers to the Supreme Person (evadat):)
“The happiness of liberation, whereby one merges into the Lord’s existance, cannot even be compared to a fragment of the transcendental bliss obtained by service unto the Lord’s lotus feet.”
“In the Koran there are descriptions of fruitive activity, speculative knowledge, mystic power and union with the Supreme, but ultimately everything is refuted as the Lord’s personal feature and His devotional service is established.”
“The scholars of the Koran are not very advanced in knowledge. Although there are many methods prescribed, they do not know that the ultimate conclusion should be considered the most powerful.”
“Seeing your own Koran and deliberating over what is written there, what is your conclusion?”
The Saintly Muslim replied,” All that You have said is true. This has certainly been written in the Koran, but our scholars can neither understand nor accept it.”
“Usually they describe the Lord’s impersonal aspect, but they hardly know that the Lord’s personal feature is worshipable. They are undoubtedly lacking this knowledge.”
“Since You are that very same Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, please be merciful upon me. I am fallen and unfit.”
“I have studied the Koran very extensively, but from it I cannot conclusively decide what the ultimate goal of life is nor how I can approach it.”
“Now that I have seen You, my tongue is chanting the Hare Krsna Maha Mantra. The false prsetige I felt from being a learned scholar is now gone.”
Saying this, the saintly Muslim fell at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya mahaprahu and requested Him to speak of the ultimate goal of life and the process by which it could be obtained.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said,”Please get up. You have chanted the holy name of Krsna; therefore the sinful reactions you have accrued for many millions of lives are now gone. You are now pure.”
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu then told all the Mohammedans there,”Chant the holy name of Krsna! Chant the holy name of Krsna!” As they all began to chant, they were all overwhelmed by ecstatic love.
In this way Sri Caitanya indirectly initiated the saintly Mohammedan by advising him to chant the holy name of Krsna. The Mohammedan’s name was changed to Ramadasa. There was also another Pathana Muslim whose name was Vijuli Khan.
(Purport by Prabhupada: After being initiated, the devotees of Krsna change their names. Whenever a person in the western world becomes interested in this Krsna conscious movement he is initiated by this process. In India we are falsely accused of converting mlecchas and yavanas into the Hindu religion. In India, there are many Mayavadi sanyasis known as jagad-guru, although they have hardly visited the whole world. Some are even not sufficiently educated, yet they make accusations against our movement and accuse us of destroying the principles of the Hindu religion by accepting Muslims and yavanas as Vaishnavas. Such people are simply envious. We are not spoiling the Hindu system of religion but are simply following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya by travelling all over the world and accepting those who are interested in understanding Krsna as Krsnadasa or Ramadasa. By the process of a bona fide initiation, their names are changed.)
Vijuli Khan was very young, and he was the son of the king. All the other Mohammedans, Pathanas, headed by Ramadasa, were his servants.
Vijuli Khan also fell down at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and the lord placed His foot on his head.
Bestowing His mercy upon them in this way, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu left. All the Pathana Mohammedans then became mendicants.
Later these very Pathanas became celebrated as the Pathana Vaisnavas.They toured all over the country and chanted the glorious activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Vijuli Khan became a greatly advanced devotee, and his importance was celebrated at every holy place of pilgrimage.
In this way Lord Caitanya performed His pastimes. Coming to the western part of India, He bestowed good fortune upon the yavanas and mlecchas.
(Prabhupada’s Purport: The word yavana means “meat eater.” Anyone from a meat-eating community is called a yavana. One who does not strictly observe the Vedic regulative principles is called a mleccha.These words do not refer to any particular person. Even if a person is born in a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sudra family, he is a mleccha or yavana if he does not strictly follow the regulative principle or if he eats meat.)
(END OF QUTATIONS)
So as can be clearly seen, Krsna, Himself, as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, did not reject the Koran or Islam, but rather encouraged the Muslims to recognize its authentic meaning. Prophet Mohammed recognized that the people of Arabia were hopelessly lost in rituals and idol worship and had forgotten that the goal of all worship is to please God. By removing the many diversions, he was able to focus his followers attention on the worship of the Supreme Godhead, who is the source of all the demigods and the goal of all sacrifice, charity, prayer and worship.

Also the Chand Kazi became a vaisnava by the influence of Lord Caitanya
please see also:
http://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/?p=14540&cpage=1


” The most excellent Jihad (Holy War) is that for conquest of self .”
(Abdullah Al-Mamun Al-Suhrawardy, The sayings of Muhammad, London, 1905, p. 27)
Here is a good description of Jihad. The Holy Prophet Muhammad himself explained that Jihad means fighting and conquering the impurities of consciousness. It is not that one should fight with the enemy on the outside. No. Actually, one should fight with the enemies that is inside. Who are these internal enemies? They are lust, greed and anger. These are three gates leading to hell. One should fight and conquer these enemies. Jihad may require fighting in Allah’s cause, as a form of self-sacrifice. But its essence consists in:
1) true and sincere faith, which so fixes its attention on Allah, that all selfish or worldly motives seem insignificant and fade away, and
2) enthusiastic and incessant activities, involving the sacrifice of one’s life, or wealth, in the service of Allah. Mere brutal fighting is opposed to the whole spirit of Jihad, while the sincere scholar’s pen or the preacher’s voice or the wealthy man’s contributions may be the most valuable forms of Jihad. This is the inner, esoteric meaning of the term Jihad, Holy War.

the Holy Prophet Muhammad said: “The most excellent Jihad is the uttering of truth in the presence of an unjust ruler.” (Mishkat, 17)
one devotee asked me: what means 'Jihad'? what is the meaning of Jihad!
my answer:
It is a complex term please go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad
basically it is a holy war, some muslims take it you have to conquer the lower self like lust anger and greed and some take it as holy war against those who are not muslims, the first kind are mostly religously tolerant the second is fanatics and dangeous ,what Bhavisya Purana describes as Pisacha religion
Srila Prabhupada once had a dream in Mayapure he shared with one servant, he said I just had a dream about a heavenly planet where pious muslims go.
Pious muslims even chant 99 names of Allah: http://www.salagram.net/names-of-Allah-page.htm
I like to add the "pisacha muslims" goes to hell or fully takes on the body of a Pisacha they are basically pisachas with human bodies like in the case of Osama Bin Laden
and his followers that where behind 9/11
The "pisacha Muslims" described in the Bhavisya Purana are the ones that attacked India, destroyed temples build Mosques on top of the Janmasthan of Krsna in Mathura
and in Ayodhya of Lord Ramachandra.The piscaha muslims are the ones that destroyed all the main tempels of Vrindavan and made it into a poor village, and tried to destroy all the main Deities of Vrindavan,and in some cases did

the Holy Prophet Muhammad said: “The most excellent Jihad is the uttering of truth in the presence of an unjust ruler.” (Mishkat, 17)


in the Bhavisya Purana it is stated how Muhammed approached one king of India:

Mohammad secretly came to meet Bhoja Raja, as the Bhavisya Purana now describes. It appears that this meeting took place before Mohammed had achieved prominence in Arabia.
raatrau sa devaruupashca bahumaayavishaaradah
paishaacam dehamaasthaaya bhojaraajam hi soabravit
At night, he (Mohammad) of angelic disposition, this shrewd man in the guise of a Pishacha [a desert spirit or jinn], spoke to Bhoja Raja.
aaryayadharmohi te raajansarvadharmottamah smritah
iishaagyayaa karishyaami paishaaca dharma daarunam
O Raja! Your Arya Dharma has been considered to be the best of all religions, but according to the commandments of the Supreme Controler, I shall enforce the strong creed of the Pishachas.
lingacchedii shikhaahinah shmashrudhaari sa dushakah
uccaalaapii sarva bhakshi bhavishyati jano mama
My followers will see to it that men are circumcised and that they wear no shikha on their heads. Instead they will wear beards and behave against brahminical principles. They will call out loudly in their prayers. They will eat all things.
binaa kaala caa pashavaasteshaaam bhakshyaa mataa mama
naimusaleva samskaarah kushariva bhavishyati
According to my teachings, they will eat all animals except swine. They will not seek purification by sitting on Kusha grass, rather their purification will come by warfare. (Musal).
tasmaanmusalavanto hi jaatayo dharmadushakaah
iti paishaaca dharmashca bhavishyati maya krutah
They shall be known as Musal because of their battles with irreligious nations, and I shall be known as the originator of this pisaca-dharma.


See also Suhotra Prabhus article: http://bvml.org/tmi/SS_bpatpm.html

Bhavisya Purana describes Muhammad or Maha Mada as an reincarnation of the demon Tripurasura

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIAHiGCS9L4&feature=player_embed...!

maybe you remember Tripurasura from Srimad Bhagavatam? Lord Siva killed him and his three cities known as Tripura ,thus Lord Siva got the
name Tripurari ,so in his next reincarnation this demon Muhammad is really a worshipper of Lord Siva, those who are pious gets elevated and those
who act according to the fanatic aspect of this pischata religion goes to hell,why ? Because their business is to kill cows, and Brahmanas and destroy Vedic culture, and even kill women

http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/associates/demons/siva/tarakasu...

so it appears the 3 brothers
Vidyunmali, Tarakaksha and Viryavana
became one Tripurasura ?
Or the person send by Lord Visnu to bewilder them as in the above article?
Or what appears that Tripurasura was one person, what ever it is,
Muhammad or Maha Mada as an reincarnation of the demon Tripurasura

"Out of his powers Vishnu created a man. This man’s head was shaven, his clothes were faded and he carried a wooden water-pot in his hands. He covered his mouth with a piece of cloth and approached Vishnu. "What are my orders?" he asked Vishnu.
Let me explain to you why you have been created, replied Vishnu. I will teach you a religion that is completely against the Vedas. You will then get the impression that there is no svarga (heaven) and no naraka (hell) and that both heaven and hell are on earth. You will not believe that rewards and punishments for deeds committed on earth are meted out after death. Go to Tripura and teach the demons this religion, which they are dislodged from the righteous path. Then we will do something about Tripura."

or there is SB 1.7.18
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.7.18
tam āpatantaḿ sa vilakṣya dūrāt
kumāra-hodvigna-manā rathena
parādravat prāṇa-parīpsur urvyāḿ
yāvad-gamaḿ rudra-bhayād yathā kaḥ

TRANSLATION
Aśvatthāmā, the murderer of the princes, seeing from a great distance Arjuna coming at him with great speed, fled in his chariot, panic stricken, just to save his life, as Brahmā fled in fear from Śiva.
PURPORT
According to the reading matter, either kaḥ or arkaḥ, there are two references in the Purāṇas. Kaḥ means Brahmā, who once became allured by his daughter and began to follow her, which infuriated Śiva, who attacked Brahmā with his trident. Brahmājī fled in fear of his life. As far as arkaḥ is concerned, there is a reference in the Vāmana Purāṇa. There was a demon by the name Vidyunmālī who was gifted with a glowing golden airplane which traveled to the back of the sun, and night disappeared because of the glowing effulgence of this plane. Thus the sun-god became angry, and with his virulent rays he melted the plane. This enraged Lord Śiva. Lord Śiva then attacked the sun-god, who fled away and at last fell down at Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), and the place became famous as Lolārka.

Maybe a different pastimes of Tripura in another Kalpa?

Anyhow we pray ISKCON and all devotees may be protected by the muslims influences by the pisacha principle,
SB 6.8.23: Set into motion by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and wandering in all the four directions, the disc of the Supreme Lord has sharp edges as destructive as the fire of devastation at the end of the millennium. As a blazing fire burns dry grass to ashes with the assistance of the breeze, may thatSudarśana cakra burn our enemies to ashes.
SB 6.8.24: O club in the hand of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you produce sparks of fire as powerful as thunderbolts, and you are extremely dear to the Lord. I am also His servant. Therefore kindly help me pound to pieces the evil living beings known as Kuṣmāṇḍas, Vaināyakas, Yakṣas, Rākṣasas, Bhūtas and Grahas. Please pulverize them.
SB 6.8.25: O best of conchshells, O Pāñcajanya in the hands of the Lord, you are always filled with the breath of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Therefore you create a fearful sound vibration that causes trembling in the hearts of enemies like the Rākṣasas, pramatha ghosts, Pretas, Mātās, Piśācas and brāhmaṇa ghosts with fearful eyes.
SB 6.8.26: O king of sharp-edged swords, you are engaged by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Please cut the soldiers of my enemies to pieces. Please cut them to pieces! O shield marked with a hundred brilliant moonlike circles, please cover the eyes of the sinful enemies. Pluck out their sinful eyes.
SB 6.8.27-28: May the glorification of the transcendental name, form, qualities and paraphernalia of the Supreme Personality of Godhead protect us from the influence of bad planets, meteors, envious human beings, serpents, scorpions, and animals like tigers and wolves. May it protect us from ghosts and the material elements like earth, water, fire and air, and may it also protect us from lightning and our past sins. We are always afraid of these hindrances to our auspicious life. Therefore, may they all be completely destroyed by the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.
and we can preach to the pious Muslims as long as they do not manifest any pisacha mentality,and in muslim countries it can be risky...

your servant
 Paramananda das

[Paramananda das]

The Directions of Mohammed with Regard to the Unbelievers
by Bhakta Abdula
Of course an Unbeliever is anyone who doesn't worship Allah and his prophet.
"Allah was not just satisfied with killing the unbelievers. He enjoyed torturing them before killing them..." Taste ye the Penalty of Burning!" 22:19-22
"Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin Most heinous indeed." 4:48
Let not the believers Take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah 3:28
"slay them wherever ye catch them". (Q.2:191)
In the verse 8:65, Allah tells his prophet:
"O Prophet! rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers."
In the verse 8:65, Allah tells his prophet:
"O Prophet! rouse the Believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers."
These two antagonists dispute with each other about their Lord: But those who deny (their Lord),- for them will be cut out a garment of Fire: over their heads will be poured out boiling water. With it will be scalded what is within their bodies, as well as (their) skins. In addition there will be maces of iron (to punish) them. Every time they wish to get away therefrom, from anguish, they will be forced back therein, and (it will be said), "Taste ye the Penalty of Burning!" 22:19-22
Quran tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (Q.2:191), to murder them and treat them harshly
(Q.9:123), fight with them, (Q.8:65) humiliate them and impose on them a penalty tax if they are Christians or Jews, (Q.9:29) and slay them if they are Pagans (Q.9:5). The Quran takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and tells clearly that no other religion except Islam is accepted (Q.3:85). That Allah would relegate those who disbelieve in the Quran to Hell (Q.5:11) and calls them najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (Q.9:28). I was shocked to learn that Allah orders the Muslims to fight the unbelievers until no other religion is left other than Islam (Q.2 :193), or that he says that the non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water (Q.14:17), and asks the Muslims to slay or crucify or cut the hands and the feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace. And as if this were not enough, that "they shall have a great punishment in world hereafter" (Q.5:34).
"As for the disbelievers, for them garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowls and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods" (Q.22:9).
The Quran also prohibits Muslims to befriend their own fathers or brothers if they are not believers (Q.9:23), (Q.3:28) and that actually Muhammad encouraged his followers to kill their own family in the battles of Badr and Uhud and asks the Muslims to "strive against the unbelievers with great endeavor (Q.25:52), and be stern with them because they belong to hell (Q.66:9).
The Quran saying: "strike off the heads of the disbelievers" then after making a "wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives" (Q.47:4).
The book of Allah says that women are inferior to men and their husbands have the right to beat them (Q.4:34), and that women will go to hell if they are disobedient to their husbands (Q.66:10). It says that men have an advantage over the women (Q.2:228). It not only denies women equal right to their inheritance (Q.4:11-12), it also regards them as imbeciles and decrees that their testimony alone is not admissible in the court (Q.2:282). This means that a woman who is raped cannot accuse her rapist unless she can produce a male witness, which of course is a joke. Rapist don't rape in the presence of witnesses. But the most shocking verse was where Allah allows Muslims to rape the women captured in wars even if they are married before being captured, (Q.4:24) (Q.4:3).
This is why anytime a Muslim army subdues another nation, they call them kafir and rape their women. Pakistani soldiers raped up to 250,000 Bangali women in 1971 and massacred 3,000,000 unarmed civilians when their religious leader decreed that Bangladeshis are un-Islamic. This is why the prison guards in Islamic regime of Iran rape the women and then kill them after calling them apostates and the enemies of Allah.

[Paramananda das]

It’s Not All One, Mr. Rosen/Satyaraja
by Bhakta Abdul
Traveling in the areas of the earth whereupon the Muslim are multitudinous has precluded me from answering at an earlier time the response of Rosen/Satyaraja to my recent posting, “Steven. Rosen, Just What Are You Saying?” Certainly we are happy to see that Mr Rosen now calls himself primarily Satyaraja dasa and, furthermore, he is now quoting Srila Prabhupada, rather than the mundane personalities whose mutually contradictory statements so populate his pronouncements, in particular his earlier essay "Violence and Religion". With this revived stress on his spiritual name, rather than that of his previous material life, we might say that Satyaraja has Risen from Rosen.
However in his continuing role as an apologist for Mohammedism, he continues to display his philosophical naivety. In his response, he has employed the red herring tactic. In our first essay, the facts of the life and teachings of Mohammed were noted in summary. The intention was to let the devotee community understand wherefrom the Islamic terrorists drawn their life direction and justification for their increasingly numerous atrocities, which of course have fourteen hundred years of precedents. However, Satyaraja has not addressed the matter of the article in his response, but rather has simply offered off-the-point quotes from Srila Prabhupada that are apparently meant to validate Mohammed and the Koran.
These quotes are of two: firstly, statements by Srila Prabhupada that designate Mohammed as a saktyavesa-avatara; and secondly, a phrase or two of a lecture wherein Srila Prabhupada explains that books of knowledge meant to discipline human society are available throughout human society. In India there are the Vedas, and the Mohammedans have their Koran. Certainly this is information, but it does not address the violent nature of the life and teaching attributed to Mohammed in the Koran and Hadiths, which was the essence of the essay. Actually Satyaraja has apparently missed the footnote to the earlier article wherein we discussed the saktyavesa nature of Mohammed, so we will repeat this now in expansion.
The Supreme Lord has unlimited and varied saktis, divided into those of material illusion and those of spiritual truth. The borderline jiva soul is situated between these potencies. As per His design, the Lord may bestow an extraordinary quantity of one or more potency upon a particular jiva. This is known as saktyavesa, or dressed with potency. However all potencies are not one. We must repeat that the potencies of the Lord are varied, and it must be understood that not all lead one to spiritual realisation and the path of bhakti. Some spread ignorance and illusion. In the Gita, the Lord has stated that those who are “envious and mischievous” are continually cast into demoniac species of life. Sinful souls take birth in impious lands with impious association and become subject to false cheating religions as a reaction for their bad behaviour. However, still there is mention of the Supreme Lord and His overlordship of the creation within these primitive systems of thought with the hope of somehow or other disciplining these sinful, even demoniac souls.
The avatara of Buddha is an example of this principle. The Bhagavatam explains that Buddha appeared “just for the purpose of deluding those who are envious of the faithful theist”. Srila Prabhupada writes, “At the time when Lord Buddha appeared, the people in general were atheistic and preferred animal flesh to anything else. On the plea of Vedic sacrifice, every place was practically turned into a slaughterhouse, and animal-killing was indulged in unrestrictedly. Lord Buddha preached non-violence, taking pity on the poor animals. He preached that he did not believe in the tenets of the Vedas and stressed the adverse psychological effects incurred by animal-killing. Less intelligent men of the age of Kali, who had no faith in God, followed his principle, and for the time being they were trained in moral discipline and non-violence, the preliminary steps for proceeding further on the path of God realization...”
Similarly Sankaracarya spread illusion in the form of Mayavada philosophy, however, simultaneously he reintroduced the concept of transcendence that had been largely lost with the wide propagation of Buddhism.
In the Caitanya-siksamrta, Srila Thakura Bhaktivinoda explains that Sri Paurasurama caused the breakdown of Vedic civilisation by acting as a ksatriya while purporting to be a brahmana. This was the root source of the “varna by birth” concept, rather than the truly Vedic “varna by quality” concept. Furthermore Paurasurama’s repeated slaughter of the ksatriyas drove a deep wedge between the brahmana and ksatriya communities, who when in cooperation are the axis of the Vedic social system. Thus varnasrama collapsed.
Duryodhana of the Mahabharata is an empowerment of the personality of Kali. In the Mahabharata, Duryodhana was rescued by Arjuna from the Gandharvas. This rescue so mortified Duryodhana that he decided to take his own life to escape the shame. However he fell to sleep and in that state he was assailed by powerful demoniac entities that chastised him for his ideas of suicide and encouraged him to continue in his aggressive malicious hatred of the Pandavas. (These asuras affecting Duryodhana from the subtle realm were ignorantly hopeful of stopping the Supreme Lord’s plan of establishing the pious Yudhisthira as Emperor.) Soon, Duryodhana awoke free from the thoughts of suicide and even more determined to eliminate Yudhisthira, Bhima and Arjuna.
The incarnations of the Lord are “as numerous as the waves upon the ocean”, the Bhagavatam states in the First Canto. One of the six mentioned types of incarnations is the saktyavesa. Thus, great empowered personalities appear, act upon the stage of life, and then having fulfilled the purpose of the Lord disappear from view. These personalities certainly vary in their attitude and depth of relationship with the Lord, however they are all integrated into the abstruse plan of the Lord. Yet, it is wrong to presume they are all equal in cognizance of the Absolute Truth, or that their teachings have the same tone and transcendental validity. Though we accept Lord Buddha as saktyavesa, we certainly do not accept his teachings. In the same manner, those that know Vedic siddhanta and also know the content of the Koran and Hadiths will find a great gulf between the two.
It is not a display of spiritual intelligence to posture in the fashion of liberal political correctness that Mohammedism and Vedic Siddhanta are essentially one and that the Koran is equivalent to the Vedas, which was apparently the intention of Satyaraja in his response to my earlier essay. Selectively researching the statements of Srila Prabhupada for quotes to employ in the egoistic defence of one’s untenable position only deepens one’s disgrace.
Srila Prabhupada travelled the world, encouraging all to love God and develop that love through the chanting of whatever name of God they pleased. Rather than driving down the rocky road of discussing the actual content of the primitive scriptures of the meat-eaters with their adherents, Srila Prabhupada mercifully distributed the chanting of the Holy Names and sanctified foodstuffs. The philosophy of transcendence is precluded from the sinful meat-eaters. We see that if a religion/philosophical debate arose, particularly with the Christians, Srila Prabhupada would simply stick to this point of meat-eating. We, as his followers, should learn from this brilliant and simple preaching tactic of Srila Prabhupada and not walk down the path of back-slapping brotherly love where all religions are “one” and “I’m OK, you’re OK” is the byword. Srila Prabhupada upon invitation to a religious conference by Yogi Bhajan refused, decrying such events as essentially useless. Srila Prabhupada sought to distinguish his teachings from mundane religiosity, being at pains to designate his teachings the perfected “science of self-realisation”.
As Srila Prabhupada explains: "Man-made religion has no value. So man-made religions, there are so many religious systems, the Hindu religion, Christian religion, Mohammedan religion or this religion, that religion.”
So we see that Srila Prabhupada was tactful and positive in his preaching of the Holy Name, avoiding useless philosophical debate with the unqualified, thus not disturbing the minds of the ignorant, attached and unintelligent as recommended by Sri Krsna in the Gita. However, at the same time he made statements that reveal the content of these world views. These organised religions are simply material, they are an ultimately useless misrepresentation of the Supreme Lord. They are the perfect oxymoron: ‘the man-made words of God’, imposed on the people not by love but by the threat of an imaginary Devil. Being material, they come and go. However, the Vedas are not subject to the material time factor being emanated from the transcendental platform as the very breathing of the Supreme Lord.
Thus, for Satyaraja, here is Srila Prabhupada’s frank opinion of the Judeo-Christian-Mohammedan scriptures: “The sastras of the yavanas, or meat-eaters, are not eternal scriptures. They have been fashioned recently, and sometimes they contradict one another. The scriptures of the yavanas are three: the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their compilation has a history; they are not eternal like the Vedic knowledge. Therefore although they have their arguments and reasonings, they are not very sound and transcendental. As such, modern people advanced in science and philosophy deem these scriptures unacceptable.”
If even “modern people” deem these three scriptures “unacceptable”, then we would hope that Satyaraja would also. If Satyaraja still insists on being an apologist for Mohammedism, then I would ask him to read again the following extracts from the Koran; perhaps he might then see the world view he is defending from his soft-focus dream world of political correctness:
"Allah was not just satisfied with killing the unbelievers. He enjoyed torturing them before killing them... Taste ye the Penalty of Burning!" 22:19-22
"Allah forgiveth not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgiveth anything else, to whom He pleaseth; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin Most heinous indeed." 4:48 (“Partners” here means rival gods.)
“Let not the believers take for friends or helpers Unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, in nothing will there be help from Allah. (K.3:28.) Allah's order was to, "slay them wherever ye catch them". (K.2:191)
In the verse 8:65, Allah tells his prophet: "O Prophet! Rouse the Believers to the fight (jihad). If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred: if a hundred, they will vanquish a thousand of the Unbelievers."
The Koran tells Muslims to kill the disbelievers wherever they find them (K.2:191), to murder them and treat them harshly (K.9:123), fight with them, (K.8:65) humiliate them and impose on them a penalty tax if they are Christians or Jews, (K.9:29) and slay them if they are Pagans (K.9:5). The Koran takes away the freedom of belief from all humanity and tells clearly that no other religion except Islam is accepted. (K.3:85). That Allah would relegate those who disbelieve in the Koran to Hell (K.5:11) and calls them najis (filthy, untouchable, impure) (K.9:28). Allah orders the Muslims to fight the unbelievers until no other religion is left other than Islam (K.2 :193), the non-believers will go to hell and will drink boiling water (K.14:17), and asks the Muslims to slay or crucify or cut the hands and the feet of the unbelievers, that they be expelled from the land with disgrace; "they shall have a great punishment in world hereafter" (K.5:34).
"As for the disbelievers, for them garments of fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their bowls and skin shall be dissolved and they will be punished with hooked iron rods" (K.22:9).
The Koran also prohibits Muslims to befriend their own fathers or brothers if they are not believers (K.9:23), (K.3:28) and that actually Muhammad encouraged his followers to kill their own family in the battles of Badr and Uhud and asks the Muslims to "strive against the unbelievers with great endeavor (K.25:52), and “be stern with them because they belong to hell” (K.66:9).
The Koran says: "strike off the heads of the disbelievers" (thus the recent web-site videos) then after making a "wide slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives" (K.47:4).
The book of Allah says that women are inferior to men and their husbands have the right to beat them (K.4:34), and that women will go to hell if they are disobedient to their husbands (K.66:10). It says that men have an advantage over the women (K.2:228). It not only denies women equal right to their inheritance (K.4:11-12), it also regards them as imbeciles and decrees that their testimony alone is not admissible in the court (K.2:282). This means that a woman who is raped cannot accuse her rapist unless she can produce a male witness. But the most shocking verse was where Allah allows Muslims to rape the women captured in wars even if they are married before being captured, (K.4:24) (K.4:3). Thus, when a Muslim army subdues another nation, they call them kafir and rape their women. Pakistani soldiers raped up to 250,000 Bengali women in 1971 and massacred 3,000,000 unarmed civilians when their religious leader decreed that Bangladeshis are un-Islamic. This is why the prison guards in the Islamic regime of Iran rape the dissident women and then kill them after calling them apostates and the enemies of Allah.
On the world stage we can see the result of these “man-made” cheating religions. Jews, Christians and Muslims are increasingly busy in the business of killing one another in the name of God. To each the other is the Devil. In fact in these ‘religions’ it can be argued that there is more information given about this mythological Devil and his abode, than that of God and His abode. Thus we find that the adherents to these ‘religions’ are very quick to the see the Devil in practically everything (except themselves). Devil-consciousness is their apparent attainment. Such a divisive satanic world view will inevitably fail, leaving only destruction in its wake. If there is actually the ever-predicted Armageddon approaching, then it is surely one when the bomb-ravaged terrorised people of the world cry out to the Lord to know the Eternal Transcendental Truth that is only covered by their demoniac leaders wielding the fallacious “man-made” scriptures of the Jews, Christians and Muslims as vicious weapons upon one another.
Srila Bhaktivinoda has predicted the days when all those sincere amongst the befuddled Buddhists, Mayavadis, Jews, Christians and Mohammedans will find the true fulfillment of their religious quest in the path chalked out by yuga-dharma-avatara, Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. May the All-Merciful Supreme Controller bring those days ever closer to the harried and ignorant residents of Kali-yuga. May we all know the Absolute Truth by His Grace. When that Grace floods our heart, there will be no room for the abominable self-centred concepts of “friends and enemies”. There will only be Divine Love for the Lord and every beloved soul of His Creation.
Hare Krsna,
Bhakta Abdula

[Paramananda das]

Response to Satyaraja
by Nandanandana Dasa (ACBSP)
In his response to Bhakta Abdul, for Koran being on a par with the Vedas Satyaraja missed some quotes. Although the Koran can be regarded as dealing with transcendental knowledge, one God, how to attain Him, etcetera, definitely the Vedas do not support the acts of raping, looting, killing as quoted by Abdul from Koran. Therefore it is pointed out its defects as “not very sound and transcendental”.
From CC Adi 17.165-169:
TEXT 165
"Since you Muslims cannot bring killed animals back to life, you are responsible for killing them. Therefore you are going to hell; there is no way for your deliverance.
TEXT 166
"Cow-killers are condemned to rot in hellish life for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the body of the cow.
TEXT 167
"There are many mistakes and illusions in your scriptures. Their compilers, not knowing the essence of knowledge, gave orders that were against reason and argument."
TEXT 168
After hearing these statements by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Kazi, his arguments stunned, could not put forward any more words. Thus, after due consideration, the Kazi accepted defeat and spoke as follows.
PURPORT
In our practical preaching work we meet many Christians who talk about statements of the Bible. When we question whether God is limited or unlimited, Christian priests say that God is unlimited. But when we question why the unlimited God should have only one son and not unlimited sons, they are unable to answer. Similarly, from a scientific point of view, the answers of the Old Testament, New Testament and Koran to many questions have changed. But a sastra cannot change at a person's whim. All sastras must be free from the four defects of human nature. The statements of sastras must be correct for all time.
TEXT 169
"My dear Nimai Pandita, what You have said is all true. Our scriptures have developed only recently, and they are certainly not logical and philosophical.
PURPORT
The sastras of the yavanas, or meat-eaters, are not eternal scriptures. They have been fashioned recently, and sometimes they contradict one another. The scriptures of the yavanas are three: the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran. Their compilation has a history; they are not eternal like the Vedic knowledge. Therefore although they have their arguments and reasonings, they are not very sound and transcendental. As such, modern people advanced in science and philosophy deem these scriptures unacceptable.