While we were presenting Hindu teachings every now & then, two young Muslim men, continued to raise objections & in the guise of "trying to understand Hinduism" interject some demeaning comments about Hinduism. The idea of worshipping God through images was seen as a serious issue. We had to explain that just as you cannot do math without the infinity symbol (which is very finite); as long as we operate in the field of the finite we need finite tools to relate to the infinite God. The Hindus are not apologetic about the use of finite images to relate to the infinite God. Surprisingly the Hindu concept of "accepting that there can be many ways for making spiritual progress" seemed to have gone down well till we came to the end of the session, when one of the youth made a proclamation that it was his duty to warn us to embrace Islam else we will pay a heavy price on the day of judgement. Our response was, "We are thankful for his concern about our welfare but we will take that risk."
2007-10-29
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