Mahavir is Asking?

Mahavir is asking

 It was just a question but it shook me from both inside and outside. I wiped my sweat for a long time but my forehead did not dry. I rubbed one tissue and my forehead would get wet again till the other tissue was removed. ۔

He was smiling at me and I was looking from left to right with embarrassment. He was a monk. He was a Buddhist monk. He had two orange sheets wrapped around his body. He had a razor on his head. Round glasses on his nose. There was a wooden stand at his feet. His bag was lying next to him and he was staring at me from behind the round glasses.

He met me at the (Abhaya Girivihara) Buddhist Monastery in Sri Lanka. It is the holiest place of worship for the Mahayana sect of Buddhism. Was an engineer in terms of 'suffering from depression and became a Buddhist in search of peace' Buddhists put a special kind of flower at the feet of the Buddha ' Buddhists were born near its flower and they died near it.

I asked the head priest the name of the flower. He did not know English. He gestured to me and sent me to Mahavira. He was meditating. I sat down next to him. He opened his eyes and turned to me and said, "May I help you." I showed him the flower and asked him his name. He smiled and replied, "Lotus." I thanked him and got up. He stood up, motioned for me to sit down, and asked, "Where do you come from?" And then our conversation began.

He was a really well-educated young man. He had seen half the world. He had explored a dozen religions in search of the truth. I asked him, "Have you studied Islam?" He replied with a laugh. "I used to study in three Islamic madrassas in India, one was Bareli, the other was Deobandi and the third was Shia." I asked, "Have you converted to Islam?" He smiled and said, "No." "I wanted to study different religions so I entered Islamic madrassas." I asked, "Why didn't you become a Muslim again?"

He said, "I think Muslims are very egotistical and arrogant. They consider themselves superior to the rest of the world, so I went ahead." I shook my head in denial and apologized. "No, you have misunderstood." Islam is the religion of humility and submission. ”He laughed and said,“ Don't you think that your prophet is greater than all the prophets, all the incarnations and all the religious leaders? ”

I replied, "This is our belief." He said, "And don't you think that only your book is true and great?" I immediately replied, "This is also our belief, our faith." We believe. ”He said,“ I believe in your faith. You just answer one of my questions. ”I listened intently. He said,“ I believe. Your Prophet and your book is greater and better than all the books in the world, but why are you not good in spite of this great book, this great prophet and the true and good?

Why don't you distinguish between speaking and eating, eating and drinking and getting up and sitting? Why are you enemies of knowledge, argument and logic? Why do you consider each other as infidels despite believing in one God, one Prophet and one book, why do you kill your fellow believers in the name of one God, one Prophet and one book? And why do you swear falsely about this book, why do you lie, why do you mix, why do you misrepresent, why do you hoard, why do you steal and rob, why do you humiliate women and children? Why do you commit fraud in food and medicine, why do you break promises, why do you doubt others and why do you divide human beings into ranks?

Sweat rolled down my face, he said, "I met great Muslim scholars, businessmen and professors, and I finally said to myself, 'Mahavira, the religion which has not changed its ancestors, what has happened to me?' So I came forward and today I am a Buddhist. ”

I wiped my forehead and asked him, "Do you believe that Buddhism is the true religion and it will give you everything you are looking for?" He laughed and said, "I will tell you a strange thing." Besides, the followers of any religion in the world do not claim 100% truth. The whole of Buddhism says, "You may attain Nirvana and you may be deprived." These people do not claim to be on the right path. When you people claim to be truthful even if you walk on the wrong path, you also claim by sucking the blood of the whole world, you will go to heaven and those who invented the cure for cancer are hellish.

This belief smells of arrogance and you people think that Allah will send you to Paradise in spite of all your sins, just as you have to decide about people of other religions. I am nothing but a stick and a hatred in my mouth. ”He paused, took a deep breath and said,“ You are strangely interesting people. ” You also claim that we are followers of Islam. How can I believe? If you are a true follower of Islam, then why there is no peace in the whole world of Islam. We Buddhists do not claim peace and reconciliation.

We do not want to create an ideal society and we have never declared our book and our leader the greatest leader in the world and the best book in the world but we always live in peace and tranquility. Lhasa was our holiest place of worship. "China captured it in 1959 and drove the Dalai Lama out of Tibet. We have not fought for it to this day. We are 540 million in the world, but we have not attacked China to date and have not carried out suicide bombings. You are killing each other despite being good and virtuous. Where is this goodness? Where is this goodness? So my only question is, if you are a true follower of your religion, then why are you not true? Why are you not good? "Yes, I did." I shook his hand and walked out of the temple.

Sardar Kamran is my friend. He sent me an old clip of Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi yesterday. Allama Sahib had said in this clip, He also raised a question like this Buddhist monk.

If the Prophet and the Qur'an are good, then why aren't we good? At the same time, I remembered Mahavira and I kept asking myself for a long time, "We are all lovers of the Prophet. We should be, but when will we become followers of our Prophet?" In the time of the Prophet, even the hypocrites were safe, but today in this Islamic country, Muslims are dying at the hands of Muslims. We are living in fear of each other. Isn't this a place to drown and a tragedy for Muslims? We cannot imagine the ideological and religious freedom that is found in infidel countries in this Islamic country.

The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston, USA, has been offering Friday prayers for 20 years. The church saw this facility as a problem for Muslims. Can we do that? I am a cowardly Muslim. I do not have the courage to ask this question to any of the believers. I cannot ask, but Mahavira is asking you this. Why not? If you are a true lover of the Prophet, then why did the Muslim police in the Islamic country attack the Muslim youth and the Muslim youth attacked the Muslim police in Ramadan? ”Do you have the answer to this question?