Not only Islam, Hinduism ought also to reform itself: Dr. S.L.Dhani, IAS (Retd)
Dear
Editor,
Your
beautiful website was recommended by a friend suggesting that it might be
able to provide some ideas to me with a view to helping Hindu fundamentalists of
India also reform themselves, so that the combined efforts of liberal Muslims,
liberal Hindus and others might be able to bring lasting peace in South Asia,
which appears to have been deliberately disturbed by a common strategy of the
mischievous leaders of two great religions.
Well-meaning and sound research
I have hurriedly
glanced through your site and instantly liked it as a wonderful piece of
well-meaning and sound research in which many objective researchers have made
their valuable contribution.
I heartily
congratulate you and all your associates for their very timely effort
aimed at reforming Islam so that it may help ease the tension caused by strained
relations between India and Pakistan.
I believe that
reform on intended lines only in Islam are not going to be enough in the matter
of the achievement of the laudable objective and that the other party to the
strife in the region, namely, Hinduism ought also to reform itself independently
and with the same objective of restoring peace in the region. Further, just as
you have decided to call upon the warring factions within Islam to reappraise
the basic and original traits of the Islam at its birth, Hindu religious
leadership also engage itself in similar exercise, with reference to its own
scriptures the number, character and contents of which are debatable. –
Dr. S.L.Dhani, IAS
(Retd)
Your beautiful website was recommended by a friend of mine
suggesting that it might be able to provide some ideas to me with a view to
helping Hindu fundamentalists of India also reform themselves, so that the
combined efforts of liberal Muslims, liberal Hindus and others
might
be able to bring lasting peace in the South Asia, which appears to have been
deliberately disturbed by a common strategy of the mischievous leaders of two
great religions.
I have hurriedly glanced through your site and
instantly liked it as a wonderful peace of well-meaning and sound research in
which many objective researchers have made their valuable
contribution.
I heartily congratulate you and all your
associates for their very timely effort aimed at reforming Islam so
that it may help ease the tension caused by strained relations between India and
Pakistan.
I believe that reform on intended lines only in
Islam are not going to be enough in the matter of the achievement of the
laudable objective and that the other party to te strife in the region, namely,
Hinduism ought also to reform itself independently and with the same objective
of restoring the peace in the region. Further, just as you have decided to call
upon the warring factions within Islam to reappraise the basic and original
traits of the Islam at its birth, Hindu religious leadership also engage itself
in similar exercise, with reference to its own scriptures the number, character
and contents of which are debatable.
It is so for the reason that the Hindu
fundamentalists regard some of its so-called scriptures, the Vedas, as having
issued directly from God of their conception, which also contain numerous
self-contradictory statements. Another reason is that Hinduism has been
undergoing changes in different ages and that modern Hinduism took its present
form only in the beginning of the 9th century AD with the advent of
Adi-Sankaracharya (d. 820 AD).
I
have my own problem with my religion, Hinduism and that problem arises because
of one of its basic scriptures, which has been used to reshape many other
so-called scriptures. I have expressed my views about the faults within Hinduism
in my website www.sldhani.com
I
think that the objectives of your website and those of mine can help each other
at least with some modifications here and there.
Dr. S.L.Dhani, IAS
(Retd)
www.sldhani.com
10:47 PM
Sultan Shahin
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