Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

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ceremonies with the sense of getting finished, boggled,
demurred, and bashed.
With this concept in mind, such conferences, at least for
Islam, never bring any better results. On the contrary, I am
feeling since long that this is causing more harm than good
in its true perspective. Whether or not this is the purpose of
. conducting these gatherings, but their results are definitely
producing the impact that -with the neglect of its
distinctive characteristic -Islam is slowly being brought at
the level of other religions. Consequently the events are
gradually casting the shadow that this is not a fancied fear.
Nor is it an apprehension ofany speculative imagination.
In the beginning of June 1941, such a type of "Conference
on All Religious" was held at Shoolapur (in undivided
India). Pundit Sunderlalji, a famous Hindu activist, was the
president of this Conference. The detail of whatever-therepresentative-of-Islam
de.livered in this Conference could
not be known. But in his ~residential address, the president
focused his deliberations on the point that Islam accepts
itself that the mores and cores of salvation and progress are
one and the same in every religion. No religion enjoys
superiority to any other religion. The spirit of religion is
God- worshipping and righteous living. And that this is the
same in every religion. The difference is only in Shar·a and
Minna} (in bylaws). And that this differenc$! carries no
significance at all.
Tbe Exegesis of Azad
To prove his assertion, Pundit Sunderlalji said nothing of
his own. From the beginning of his address to the end, he
referred detailed quotations -supporting his assertions
word by word -from Abul Kalam Azad's exegesis of
Surah-AI-Fatiha (TaIjuman-AI-Qur'!ln, YoU). Probably
you would know that tQe Hindus published the Hindi