Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

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good In nature. In this regard, even the "Godworshipping"
does remain no more necessary. The name of
these eq.ical regulations is adjudicated to be "true: Deen".
Since this belief is running long among the Muslims that
Islam is also a true religion, they also hold the relation of
worship with God. And the righteous living is the name of
the few ethical regulations: some beliefs, some fundamental
fonus of pray and th~ ethical mores and cores that are
equally foood everywhere. Only thjs collection is tenned as
Islam and nothing else.
There is no difference between this form of Islam and the
other religions. Maulana Abul KaJam Azad held the same
concept of Islam, so his deduction per se -that there is no
difference between Islam and other religions - is also
rigb~. The qnly difference between him and the other
Maull/is is that he annoooced it openly whereas the others
had no such daring; otherwise every Maulvi holds the same
bClief, whether he is vocal or not. Or you may say that. this
is the neccssilry result of the belief, which Maulana Abul
Kalam Azad has announced.
But wilen It Is undentood. that Islam Is Dot It religion, It
Is a system of. life, tben the etIIlflee raised on tbls
foundation Is dltTereDt from tbe one tbat Maulana Abu]
Kalam .Azad r.eprcscDts. It Is evldeDt tbat eVery system
. of life has Its own speelOe exigencies. Till the minds 'are
prepared for It, such a system caD Det be establl$hetl.
CODvtetton (iman) is that eonspleuous mentality on the
basis of wbleb the edlDee of that system Is niselil.
Aceordlnc to the Qur'ID: "Only one and the one alone
III the system or life ror all the human belnp." Benee
one and the one alone Is the mode or eonvtetton (Iman).
According to this Qur'lnle Nneept or Islam there Is no
. such question tbat this system Is one and the same for
every aattea and every rell,1I1n. This system Is no where
except ia the Qur'ln, so the question or Its eompariMa
does never arise.
This is the very bllSic mistake, which raised the entire
edifice of Brahma-social exegesis of Maulana Abul Kalam
.Azad.