Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

,Are All Religions Alike?
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restrictions on oneself. Neither were the difficult stages of
Islamic Injunctions necessary to be' traversed, or the
troubles ofmigrntion to be imperatively overcome, nor the
head to be sacrificed in the cause ofAllah.
(On the contrary, the concept of fighting in the cause of
Allah :.Jihad -is a sin in Hinduism, it is against ahimsa
i.e., non-violence movement.) On the other hand, it is
necessary for a Muslim to lead life according to the dictates
of System that Allah has prescribed in the Qur'!n, whereas
a non-Muslim is completely free to devise a system he likes
for him and lead the life in the system he desires. There is
no binding ofany Divine System and man-made system for
him. All he has to do is what has been mentioned above. He
will be entitled for salvation.
Now just pause and think! When the end ofall the struggles
and strides of human life is nothing but .the achievement of
salvation, then who will be· the "nonnal" person that will
accept this utmost tremendous way of living, where he has
to pass through trying circums~ce at every breath? Why
should he not go for adopting such an easy mode of living
in stead of running for sutmounting the baneful and trying
stages of life to clamp the achievement of salvation? Had
the achievement of salvation been clamped as such, what
'was the need of providing detailed guidance and
injunctions in the Qur'!n? All that was necessary for this
purpose was: "0 people, accept the existence of God, and
continuously go on doing righteous deeds on the pattem of
your own ways and means; salvation for you is definite."
Had s)lch a mode of"total reconciliation" of "tolerance and
broad-mindedness" been practiced, there would have been
no confrontation from anywhere, nor had there been any
hue and cry against it. Nor had the last Messenger, Hazrat
Muhammad (PBUH) anti his followers been tramped in
such trouble and trepidation, nor had they to migrnte to
Madina from Mecca for living the life of such a series of