What are the different social customs of Hindus and Muslims?

Question

For example: Hindus write from Left to Right and Muslims from right to left. Hindus pray looking at the sun (east) and Muslims towards the moon (west). Hindus do not bury their dead in a temple. Muslims bury them in a mosque.

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_and_other_religions

Answer 2

No, left to right or right to left depends on the language, not the religion. If they're writing Urdu or Arabic, its right to left, but right now I'm writing English, which is left to right.

Muslims don't pray towards the moon...which is not always in the west anyway. We pray towards Makkah.

And Muslims don't bury the dead in a Mosque (except very few of them), we have graveyards for that.

Answer 3

You've got all wrong info here.
Hindus burn dead bodies
Muslims bury them in graveyards not in mosques.
Hindus worship Gods
Muslims pray towards Mecca and worship one Allah.
Hindus worship in temples and homes.
Muslims pray at mosques or homes.
Muslims follow 7 pillars of Islam
Hindus are divided into castes
Muslims follow the Holy Quran
Hindus follow Geeta.
Muslims sacrifice cows in the name of Allah
Hindus worship cow and call it Maata(mother)

Answer 4

1- that depends in language , there is many languages can be written left to right and visa verse.

2- who told you that we pray toward the moon .its even haven't a fixed direction .. anyway we pray toward mekkah .

3- we don't bury our dead in mosques , simply we bury them in graveyards .

hope thats clear now :)

Answer 5

I think you are misinformed, Muslims do not bury thier dead in a mosque but in a cemetery. Muslims do not pray facing the moon but the Ka'aba in Makkah, so wherever someone may be Makkah is his direction.

Answer 6

Hindu worship cows and would not harm them. Muslims sacrifice cows in their Eid-ul Adha rituals.
Hindu pay dowry. Muslim pay dower.
Hindu women wear sari that show their bellybutton. Muslim women cover up their body.
Hindu have many gods. Muslim have only one god.

Answer 7

Abt who do muslims Worship
He is Allah, there is nothing worthy of worship but He. He knows all things – hidden and revealed. He is the Beneficent, the Merciful. He is Allah, there is no deity but He. The sovereign, the Holy, the Sublime, the Guardian of (True) Faith, the Watcher over his creation, the Mighty, the Irresistible, the Supreme, Glory to Allah! (High is He) above what they ascribe to Him! He is Allah, the Creator, the Originator, the Bestower of Forms. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. All in the heavens and the earth glorify Him. And He is the Almighty, the Wise. (Quran, 59:22-4)




Allah is the self-designated name of God as known to Muslims and Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians. It is a proper noun that compounds al, meaning ‘the’, and ilah, meaning ‘object of worship’, ‘deity’ or ‘god’. So, Allah means ‘The (One True) God.’


Say: You dispute with us about Allah while He is our Lord and your Lord? (Quran, 2:139)


To maintain the Oneness of Allah’s Lordship is to recognize Allah as the one, absolute and unchallenged universal power. He caused all things to exist when there was nothing; thus He is The Creator. He nourishes and sustains all life, causing it to grow, develop and decay; thus He is The Lord and Cherisher. Nothing happens except what He allows to happen;¹ thus He is The Sovereign Master of all that is.


Allah creates everything and He has charge over all (that He creates). (Quran, 39:62)

The pagans of the pre-Islamic Arabia affirmed this aspect of Islamic monotheism or Tawheed; that is, the Oneness, Unity and Uniqueness of Allah. They had always recognized Allah to be One God of their ancestor, Prophet Abraham, and believed that He (Allah) was the supreme Creator and Sustainer of life. They never denigrated Allah in the form of an idol or image because they understood He was beyond representation. This is acknowledged in the Quran when Allah instructs Muhammad to challenge the idol-worshippers:


Say: Whose is the earth and whosoever is therein, if you know? They will say: ‘Allah’s! Say: Will you not then remember? Say: Who is Lord of the seven heavens and Lord of the Great Throne? They will say: ‘Allah! Say: Will you not then fear (Him)? Say: In Whose Hand is the sovereignty of everything and He protects (all) while against Whom there is no protector, if you do know? They will say: ‘Allah!’ Say: How then are you (still) deluded? (Quran, 23:84-9)


To the learned Jew also, the name ‘Allah’ is not something foreign. The Hebrew noun for God is ‘Elah’, sometimes written in its polite-plural form: Elohim. Elah is itself derived from the Hebrew noun ‘Alah’ which shares a common spelling, root and meaning with the Arabic name for the One God. For Christians too, God’s name is the same as that recognized by Muslims. In Arabic Bibles, the name of ‘God the Father’ is ‘Allah’. While in Aramaic, God is called ‘Allah’ – the proper noun by which Jesus referred to God in his native tongue. So, Jews, Christians and pagan Arabs had been calling God ‘Allah” centuries before Muhammad was even born.

Verily, I am Allah! There is no other god besides Me. (Quran, 20:14)


Though Allah has given each person a mind with the power to think of evil and a body with the ability to do evil, it is we who choose to put our evil ideas into practice. So while it is true that ‘Allah created you and all that you do’ (Quran, 37:96), it is also true that ‘whatever of evil befalls you is from yourself’ (Quran, 4:79).
Hence, the mission of the Prophet Muhammad was not to inform humanity that Allah is the Almighty Lord, Creator and Sustainer, as this is something creation instinctively recognizes and the people already believed in. Rather, the call of all the Prophets was to instruct humanity to direct all their worship² to Allah alone.


And We did not send any Messenger before you (O Muhammad) except We (also) inspired him (saying): ‘There is no deity but I (Allah) – so worship Me alone.’ (Quran, 21:25)


Maintaining the Oneness of Allah’s Exclusive Right to be Worshipped is the foundation upon which Islam is built.



Allah, there is none worthy of worship but He. The Ever-Living, The Self-Subsisting. Neither slumber nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatsoever is in the heavens and on Earth. Who can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows the past and the future and they can encompass nothing of His Knowledge except what He wills. His Chair extends over the heavens and the earth and He feels no fatigue in guarding them. And He is The Highest, The Mighty. (Quran, 2:255)

In truth, Allah is the only One Who can respond to worship and answer supplications. The Believer prays to Allah sincerely:

You alone we worship, You alone we ask for help. (Quran, 1:5)

Some say that prayers have a greater chance of being answered if the intercession of the pious is sought. But such beliefs liken Allah to humans who require intermediaries. Allah is different, unique, greater than all besides Him. He hears and knows all and can be approached directly by humans. Nor is Allah’s benevolence constrained by superstitious notions such as luck and astrology.³ Allah controls all that happens, good and bad, and bestows His grace and mercy on His creatures as He justly pleases. To avert evil or receive good, one must turn to Allah alone and seek His help.

Call upon Me (alone) and I will answer you. (Quran, 40:60)

In reality, to call upon or pray to the righteous, like Jesus, Mary and Muhammad, or to place faith in icons, talismans, amulets and lucky charms, is to elevate them to Allah’s status and worship them in derogation of Him. To worship anything besides Allah is to ascribe partners to Him and this is the crime of shirk, the greatest of all sins. If a person knowingly dies upon shirk without having had repented for it, they will never be forgiven.


In Islam, worship is an all-embracing concept which, as well as ritual acts like prayer, encompasses all goodness, decency and devotion expressed through obedience, sacrifice or humility. In short, any feeling of the heart, speech of the tongue, or action of the limbs that emanates from a genuine love, hope and fear of Allah, sincerely seeking His pleasure and adhering to the Sunna (i.e. the Prophet’s inspired practice), constitutes worship in Islam.
Say: Truly, my prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death are all for Allah, Lord of the worlds. (Quran, 6:162)

When Muhammad’s son died, an eclipse occurred and rumours of Allah’s personal condolence quickly arose. Whereupon Muhammad announced, ‘An eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish to attribute such things to the death or birth of a human being.’ (Bukhari)
Verily, Allah forgives not shirk (to worship/ associate others) with Him, but He forgives (anything) less than that to whoever he pleases. And whoever makes shirk with Allah has invented a tremendous sin. (Quran 4:48)


Allah is the One Who, in His divine wisdom, perfect knowledge, absolute justice and boundless mercy, legislated through His Messengers, laws by which humanity could govern itself. To obey Allah’s laws is to worship Him. To obey those who allow what Allah has forbidden or forbid what Allah has allowed is to worship them, Once, when the Prophet recited:

They (Jews and Christians) have taken their rabbis and monks as lords besides Allah. (Quran, 9:31)

Adi b. Hatim, a former Christian, said: ‘(But) we didn’t worship them!’ The Prophet asked: ‘Did they not forbid what Allah had allowed and you also forbade it; and they allowed what Allah had forbade and you also allowed it!’ Adi replied: ‘Certainly!’ The Prophet said: ‘That was your worship of them.’ (Tirmidhi) Likewise, to blindly follow people’s opinions on matters divine without understanding or seeking evidence from Allah’s Revelation is to worship such people. Fallible human opinion, no matter how pious or informed, can never rival the authority of Allah’s infallible knowledge.4

Say: The things that my Lord (Allah) has forbidden… that you speak of Allah without knowledge (Quran 7:33)

According to what Christians call the Old Testament and Jews call the Torah,5 Allah rested on ‘The Seventh Day’ of creation. Hence, Jews take Saturday and Christians Sunday as a day of rest wherein work is considered a sin. In the same book we read: ‘The Lord was grieved that He had made man on the earth, and His heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air – for I am grieved that I have made them.”’ (Genesis 6:6-7) Two chapters later, God is convinced that He over-reacted and decided: ‘never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.’ (Genesis 8:21)

Fatigue, ignorance, grief and regret; these are all earthly qualities and emotions – far removed is God from such deficiencies. Imperfection and weakness are the attributes of a created being, not its Creator. By likening Allah to humans who tire, need rest, err, experience regret and grow in knowledge, the Bible’s authors have compromised His Tawheed (i.e. Oneness, Unity and Uniqueness) and thus committed shirk.


We access divine knowledge through Allah’s Book, the Quran, and its explanation in the words and deeds of His Prophet, the Sunna. Moreover, in the understanding of the Prophet’s companions and their followers, Islam’s true application has been forever preserved for us.
Concerning this partisan use of the Old Testament, Allah says:
The Jews say that the Christians have nothing (of true faith) and the Christians say that the Jews have nothing (of true faith) – yet they recite the same scripture?! … Allah will judge between them on the day of Resurrection about that wherein they dispute! (Quran, 2:113)

And remember when Luqman said to his son, advising him: ‘O my son! Do not associate others(in worship) with Allah. Verily, shirk (associating others/ascribing partners with Allah in worship) is a mighty oppression.’ (Quran, 31:13)

Allah is not to be described with the qualities of His creation and nor is the creation to be given His divine qualities. To maintain the Oneness of Allah’s Names and Attributes is to describe Him only with qualities befitting His Majesty; those names and attributes with which He has described Himself in the Quran or those taught to us by His Prophet:

Allah – there is no deity but He. To Him belong the most beautiful (descriptive) names. (Quran, 20:8)

We may show mercy but Allah is The Most Merciful. We may possess some might but Allah is Almighty. Human vision is limited in range and colour and can focus only superficially at single objects at one place and time. Allah however, can see all things everywhere, independent of space and time. So although we see, Allah is All-Seeing; likewise we hear, but Allah is All-Hearing, and so on. Thus, Allah’s Names and Attributes are unlike those if His creation.

There is nothing comparable to Him. And He is The All-Hearing, The All-Seeing. (Quran, 42:11)

Christianity teaches that Prophet Jesus, the Messiah and son of Mary, was really a God incarnate so that He (i.e. God as His own son!) could sacrifice Himself to atone for the sins of man – despite Christianity also teaching that God Himself creates all as ‘born sinners’ in the first place.

And they say: ‘The Most Merciful (Allah) has begotten a son.’ Indeed, you have brought forth a heinous thing. The heavens are almost torn apart, the earth split asunder and the mountains felled in utter ruin that they (dare) ascribe a son to The Most Merciful. It is not befitting (the Majesty of) The Most Merciful that He should beget a son. There is none in the heavens and the earth except that it comes before The Most Merciful as a slave. (Quran, 19:88-93)

The Prophet said: ‘Allah says: ‘The son of Adam lies against Me though he has no right to do so; and he abuses Me though he has no right to do so. As for his lying against Me, it is that he claims that I cannot recreate him as I created him before; and as for his abusing Me, it is his statement that I have a son. Nay! Glorified am I (above such a blasphemy)! I am far from taking a wife or a son.”’ (Bukhari)

Blessed is He who has sent down the Criterion (i.e. this Quran) to His Servant (Muhammad) that it may be an admonition to all creatures. To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. No son has He begotton, nor has He any partner in His dominion. And He created all things and gave them their due proportions. Yet they have taken besides Him objects for worship that can create nothing but are themselves created. And neither do they control nor harm or benefit for themselves. Nor do they control death nor life nor resurrection. (Quran, 25:1-3)

Because Islam rejects as false the crucifixion of a divine Jesus, for Christians the ultimate act of God’s love to His servants, Christians often claim that the ‘Muslim God’ is impersonal and indifferent to His creation. ‘Allah,’ they say, ‘is an all-judging (as opposed to an all-loving) God, high above and far removed from his servants.’

Allah is indeed Most High above His creation, both physically and His Holiness, but He is also The Most Merciful, Loving, Forbearing and Compassionate, and it is due precisely to His forgiving that there was no need for Him to become a man and die to atone for others’ sins. [Besides, Allah is immortal. He cannot be killed by His creation and nor does He commit suicide to negate His own eternal existence.] Islam teaches that humans can have a personal and fulfilling relationship with Allah and does not compromise the transcendence of His Divine Majesty. Allah says:

And when My servants ask you (O Muhammad) concerning Me, then (tell them that) indeed I am close. I respond to the call of the supplicant when he calls Me. Let them then respond to Me and believe in Me that they may receive guidance (and walk aright). (Quran, 2:186)

The Prophet related: ‘Allah the Mighty has said: “Whoever shows enmity to a beloved slave of Mine, I shall be at war with him. My slave does not draw near to Me with anything more loved by Me than what I have commanded him. And My slave continues to draw near to Me by voluntary works till I love him. When I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask of Me, I would surely give and were he to seek refuge in Me, I would surely grant it.”’ (Bukhari)

And who despairs of the Mercy of their Lord (Allah) except those who are astray. (Quran, !5:56)

Thus, there is no ambiguity in divinity. God is God and man is man and there exists a quantum infinite gap between the two. And while almost all people acknowledge some supernatural force greater than themselves, only the true Muslim believes in and worships that Supreme Being with perfection and due reverence. Others either disbelieve in the Creator entirely or compromise His monotheism, His Tawheed, by degrading Him; confusing His Divinity with what is other and lesser than Himself.

And most of them do not believe in Allah except that they (also) ascribe partners to Him. (Quran, 12:106)

So do not be of those who commit shirk, worshipping false gods or holding false ideas about the One True God. For truly,

(Allah is) the Lord of the heavens, the earth and all that is in-between. So worship Him (alone) and be steadfast in His worship. Do you know of any equal to Him? (Quran, 19:65)


Abt buryin
1. Components of human body present in the soil
Elements that are present in the human body are present in lesser or greater quantity in the soil. Hence it is more scientific to bury a dead body, as it easily gets decomposed and mixed in the soil.

2. No Pollution
Cremating (burning) the dead body leads to pollution of the atmosphere which is detrimental to health and harmful for the environment. There is no such pollution caused by burying a dead body.


3. Surrounding land becomes fertile
To cremate a dead body several trees have to be chopped, which reduces the greenery and harms the environment and the ecology. When dead bodies are buried, besides the trees being saved, the surrounding land becomes fertile and it improves the environment.


4. Economical
It is expensive to cremate a dead body when tons of wood have to be burned. Annually there is a loss of crores of rupees, only because dead bodies are cremated in India. Burying dead bodies is very cheap. It hardly costs any money.


5. Same land can be utilised for burying another body
The wood used for cremating a dead body cannot be reutilised for cremating another dead body since it gets converted to ashes. The land used for burying a dead body can be reutilised for burying another body after a few years since the human body gets decomposed and mixed in the soil.