Zakir Naik – How to Remove the Difference between Hinduism and Islam

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			The concept
		
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			of God in Hinduism.
		
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			If you ask a common Hindu,
		
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			that how many gods does he believe in?
		
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			Some may say 3.
		
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			Some may say 100. Some may say 1,000.
		
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			While others will say 33 crows, 330,000,000.
		
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			But if you ask a learned Hindu who's
		
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			well versed with the scriptures, he will tell
		
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			you that the Hindus
		
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			should believe and worship only 1 God.
		
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			But the common Hindu, he believed in a
		
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			philosophy
		
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			known as pantheism.
		
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			Pantheism means that everything is God.
		
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			The sun is God. The moon is God.
		
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			The tree is God. The human being is
		
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			God. The snake is God. What we Muslims
		
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			believe
		
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			that everything belongs to God. Everything is God's.
		
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			G o d with an apostrophe. Yes. Everything
		
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			belongs to God.
		
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			The sun belongs to God. The moon belongs
		
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			to God. The tree belongs to God. The
		
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			human being belongs to God. The snake belongs
		
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			to God.
		
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			So the major difference
		
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			between the common Hindu
		
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			and the common Muslim is,
		
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			the Hindu says everything is God. We Muslims
		
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			say everything is God's.
		
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			God with an apostrophe s. If we can
		
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			solve this difference
		
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			of apostrophe s, then the Muslim will be
		
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			united.
		
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			Now when we read the secret scriptures of
		
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			the Hindus,
		
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			it's mentioned in the Upanishad. Upanishad is the
		
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			one of
		
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			the higher category of sacred scriptures of the
		
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			Hindus. It's mentioned
		
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			in chapter number 6, section number 2, verse
		
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			number 1.
		
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			God is only 1 without a second.
		
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			It's mentioned in the
		
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			chapter number 6, verse number 9.
		
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			Of that God, he has got no parents.
		
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			He has got no Lord. Almighty God has
		
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			got no mother, no father, no superior.
		
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			It's mentioned
		
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			in chapter number 4, number 19.
		
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			Of that God,
		
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			there is no
		
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			in Sanskrit means an image,
		
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			an idol, a picture, a photograph, a painting,
		
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			a sculpture, a statue. Of that god, there
		
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			is no
		
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			of that god, there is no image. No
		
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			idol. No picture. No painting. No portrait, no
		
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			statue, no sculpture.
		
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			It's really mentioned
		
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			chapter number 4, verse 20,
		
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			that almighty God
		
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			is imageless.
		
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			And amongst
		
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			the Hindu scriptures,
		
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			the most widely read scripture is Bhagavad Gita.
		
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			It's mentioned in Gita. Chapter number 7, verse
		
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			number 20.
		
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			All those whose intelligence has been stolen
		
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			by material desires, they worship demigods.
		
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			That all those are materialistic people,
		
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			they worship demigods.
		
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			Gods besides the one true God.
		
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			It's mentioned
		
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			book number 20. Hymn number 58, verse number
		
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			3.
		
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			Verily great is
		
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			almighty God.
		
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			It's mentioned in chapter
		
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			number 32 verse number 3.
		
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			Of that god, there is
		
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			no Of that god, he has got no
		
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			images.
		
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			No idol. No picture. No painting. No portrait.
		
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			No sculpture. No statue.
		
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			It's mentioned in chapter 40 verse number 8.
		
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			That almighty God,
		
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			he is imageless and pure. It's mentioned
		
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			chapter 40 verse number 9.
		
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			Means darkness.
		
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			Means
		
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			entering. They are entering darkness.
		
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			Those who worship
		
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			the in Sanskrit
		
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			means the natural things. Water, fire, air.
		
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			The Jewve chapter number 40 verse number 9
		
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			says, they are entering darkness. Those who worship
		
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			the the natural things like water, fire, air.
		
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			And the verse continues, they are entering more
		
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			in darkness, those who worship the
		
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			Those who worship the created things like table,
		
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			chair, idols, etcetera. Who says that? The Jurveda
		
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			chapter number 40 verse number 9.
		
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			The Vedas are the most sacred amongst all
		
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			the scriptures of the Hindus.
		
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			And amongst the Vedas,
		
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			the most important, most sacred is Rigved.
		
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			It's mentioned Rigved. Book number 1. Hymn number
		
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			164. Verse number 46.
		
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			Truth is 1. God is 1. Sages and
		
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			saints call him by different names. The same
		
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			message is repeated in Rigved,
		
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			book number 10.
		
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			Hymn number 114, verse number 5. That God
		
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			is 1,
		
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			but saints call him by a variety of
		
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			names.
		
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			And there are
		
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			no less than 33 attributes
		
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			given to almighty God in Rigveda book number
		
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			2, hymn number 1 alone. One of the
		
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			attributes is in Rigveda book number 2, hymn
		
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			number 1 verse number 3, is brahma.
		
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			Brahma
		
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			is called as the creator God.
		
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			If you translate creator into Arabic, it means.
		
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			We
		
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			Muslims have got no objection. If someone calls
		
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			almighty God
		
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			as
		
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			or creator or Brahma. But if someone says
		
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			Brahma is almighty God who has got foreheads.
		
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			And on each head of the crown, we
		
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			Muslims take strong exception to it. Because we
		
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			are going against.
		
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			Chapter number 4. Verse number 19 which says,
		
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			of that God, there is no. There is
		
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			no image. There is no idol. There is
		
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			no picture. There is no painting. There is
		
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			no portrait. There is no statue. There is
		
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			no sculpture.
		
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			The other attribute given
		
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			to Almighty
		
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			God in Rigveda, book number 2, hymn number
		
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			1, verse number 3, is Vishnu.
		
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			Vishnu
		
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			is called as
		
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			the sustainer God,
		
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			the cherisher.
		
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			If you translate
		
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			sustainer or cherisher
		
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			to Arabic, it is somewhat similar to rub.
		
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			We Muslims have got no objection. If someone
		
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			calls almighty God as rub or cherisher or
		
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			sustainer
		
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			or Vishnu. But if someone says Vishnu is
		
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			almighty God
		
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			who's traveling on the sea, on a bell
		
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			of snakes, who has got 4 hands. On
		
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			one hand is the chakra and flying on
		
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			the bird by the name of Garuda. We
		
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			Muslims take strong objection to it. And we're
		
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			going
		
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			against chapter number 32. Verse number 3 which
		
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			says,
		
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			of that God, there is no. There is
		
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			no image. There is no idol. There is
		
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			no picture. There is no portrait. There is
		
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			no painting. There is no sculpture. There is
		
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			no statue.
		
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			It's further mentioned in Rigved. Book number 8.
		
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			Hymn number 1. Verse number 1.
		
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			Do not worship him except
		
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			the one and only. Praise him alone. It's
		
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			mentioned in Rigved, book number 6.
		
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			Hymn number 45,
		
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			verse number 16.
		
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			It says,
		
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			praise him alone, one God.
		
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			Only praise him.
		
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			And the Brahma sutra
		
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			of Hinduism. The fundamental creed of Hinduism is,
		
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			There's only one God. Not a second one.
		
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			Not at all. Not at all. Not in
		
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			the least bit.
		
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			So if you read the Hindu scripture, you'll
		
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			understand the concept of God in Hinduism and
		
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			understand Hinduism in the right perspective. And that
		
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			will help to increase the brotherhood between the
		
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			Hindus and the Muslims.