Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

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mirage-oriented exegesis is found in the Deen-e-IlUlhi of
Akbar, the great. As the passions and the objectives
operating behind the motives of this movement are not
hidden from the eyes of the historians, so are the noble
efforts in their eyes that were showered to fulsity and
uproot this Islam-rending theory.
The movement of Brahma-Samaj faction has also been
founded on the same lines. Since this movement did not
come from the Muslims, so it is beyond the scope of our
criticism in this discourse.
After this movement, it was this very theory that was
projected against the Muslims during the running surge of
the political morass, conflict, and upheaval. The exegesis of
Azad became the root cause for the propagation of this
theory and hence spread as Deen among the Muslims.
Azad, as a scholar ofDe en and exegete ~fthe Qur'lIn, had a
distinct position among the Muslims. He had a deep impact
of his speech and writing on the heart and mind of the
Muslims. His exegesis of the Qur'lin was awaited since the
past many years. When it was published, it was welcomed
and was sold like hot cakes. The people treated it with great
reverence and respect. And raised slogans of, 'its
appreciation and felicitation from every walk of life.
There is' no doubt that Azad's translation has a specific
characteristic; not to appreciate this aspect would be
miserliness and stinginess. But the discussion is aboUt the
very _idea that has been mentioned above. Amid the crowd
of exceeding excitement, fondness, and fervid devotion, no
body thought of it during the time of its circulation. Not as
a self-praise, but as the expression of the factual position,
during this multitude of appreciation and eulogy, God
blessed the writer with divine help to pinpoint to the
discerning and the'sagacious persons his basic mistake that
was to be disseminated with his exegesis. Hence my article