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Is Allah & Brahman the Same? | Dr. Shabir Ally

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  1. Welcome back. Now we answer questions we receive from you, our viewers.
  2. If you have a question, visit our website quranspeaks.com. Dr. Shabir the question is,
  3. is the Allah of the Quran and the Brahman of Hinduism the same?
  4. Brahman is the ultimate reality and it is formless, timeless,
  5. eternal spaces and is beyond our senses and our languages.
  6. I wanna know if they're the same, are we a part of God or separate from God?
  7. Is Allah everywhere? And is it in everything?
  8. Please explain further. That's a question from someone from India.
  9. - Yeah, that's an interesting question. And it gets me thinking about these concepts,
  10. the concept of Allah in Islam, the concept of Brahman in Hinduism.
  11. And I have to confess I don't know that much about the concept of Brahman in Hinduism.
  12. Nonetheless, from the little I've been able to gather. Brahman is considered to be a universal soul.
  13. And the goal of Hinduism is for the individual soul, the human being to merge with that universal soul,
  14. as if that universal soul might be compared with an ocean to use a physical imagery.
  15. And the individual soul is a drop of water, and the best that this drop
  16. of water can do is to merge with that ocean, so it becomes part of something big and significant,
  17. rather than be just an individual drop. So it is understood then that the human spirit
  18. or soul would do well to merge with that universal soul which is called the Brahman.
  19. Now in Islamic thought, generally the thinking is slightly different
  20. in that while on the one hand, we believe Allah to be infinite,
  21. and many Muslims would say that Allah is timeless. So Allah has many of the qualities
  22. that the question there has attributed to Brahman and hence we can see some similarities.
  23. So it might seem that what Muslims are speaking about when we speak of Allah.
  24. Hindus are speaking about when they speak of Brahman as a kind of universal soul.
  25. The Quran describes God Allah as the Lord of the universe.
  26. So he is universal and He is the One God that pervades everything and
  27. that encompasses everything. God says that in the Quran that he is we call it
  28. (Dr. Shabir speaks in foreign language) like he is encompassing everything.
  29. He is wise, he is vast and so on. At the same time, the Quran seems
  30. to present a lot as a separate and distinct from his creation.
  31. So there is no merging of the individual with Allah. We remain His creatures forever basking in his glory
  32. and in the vision of him everlast, in everlasting bliss and paradise but not merging with the creators
  33. so the Creator remains distinct and separate from the creation.
  34. Having said that, though, in some Sufi traditions within Islam,
  35. some ideas emerge, which are similar to the Hindu idea of merging with the universal soul.
  36. So the Sufi might go through some practices to sort of in a way, efface oneself so
  37. that the Sufi devotee wants to merge with that God and with God and even without reaching
  38. that stage of merging, they may feel so intoxicated with the idea that they are part of God,
  39. that it is even mentioned in one of our traditions that a certain mystic, by the name of
  40. (Dr. Shabir speaks in foreign language) I am the truth because he felt so much
  41. at one with God, that he could say I am the truth, which is one of the names
  42. of God in the Islamic tradition. But he was declared a heretic and
  43. that did not become the standard Muslim, a way of speaking of God.
  44. So what remains is that we speak of God being transcendent,
  45. being distinct from humans. But nonetheless, he has many of the qualities
  46. which our questioner described as being the properties or attributes of Brahman,
  47. the universal soul. - So could someone believe in both?
  48. - Well, it looks like there are two separate concepts and as I said, some Sufi's seem
  49. to have merged the two concepts. So, I wouldn't say that they are not Muslims,
  50. they are Muslims. And so it's possible that one may enter
  51. the religion of Islam, through that avenue by following a Sufi tradition
  52. that is similar to what they already understand. But I would invite people to think
  53. of God as being distinct from his creatures. In the Bible and in the Quran
  54. this is how God is being presented. - Why do you think it's important
  55. to think of God as being distinct? - Well, we're called upon in the Quran
  56. to worship our Creator God, rather than to merge with God.
  57. And if we think of ourselves as being separate and distinct from God,
  58. we retain that humility as servants of God and His worshipers, rather than if we merge with God.
  59. In that case, we think of ourselves as becoming one with God and becoming, in a sense, God.
  60. So theosis has been an idea among some Christians, that eventually we the true believer merges with God.
  61. But it is not an Islamic ideal, except in some Sufi traditions.
  62. - Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I know this is an interesting subject,
  63. but also a new one for you. - Yes definitely.
  64. - Thank you. - You're welcome.

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AllahAllah (arabisch الله , DMG Allāh ‚der Gott', ʔalˤːɑːh) ist das Wort für Gott in der arabischen Sprache. Im Islam wird das Wort auch als Eigenname für Gott … Brahman (Philosophie)... Atman als Wesenseinheit begriffen, die das wahre Wesen der Welt repräsentieren. Dieses Eine wird universell als Brahman, im Einzelnen als Atman erkannt.