Assalamu Alaikum
wa'rahamtullah
wa'barakathu brothers and
sisters, I'm a born Hindu. My cast is
Arya Vysya which is the
next best cast after
Brahmins according to
Hinduism. I had a lot of doubts about
my existence from a very
young age, who am I,
where did I come from,
why do I look the way I do,
who created me, what is the purpose of my creation
etc... People may not believe
that I had these doubts as
young as the age of five.
However I did not pose
these questions to anyone, I kept them to myself. During my school days I
used to think a lot about
God and was confused
about who God really was,
whether he is found in
Christianity, Hinduism or in Islam? At one point in time I
did not believe in God at all.
At one point in my life I
used to be very scientific
and believed in Science
above most ideas, but often during my exams I believed
in God. For some time I felt that I
was involved in some kind
of business with God, for
instance when I was sad or
felt a need for God I would
believe in God but when I was busy with life and
other matters I would
forget Him. The funny part is that, I had
Muslim friends but used to
hate Muslims. I think I used
to hate the word "Muslim"
not so much the people,
based on the fact that the word often coexists with
bad headline news. All these mixed thoughts
were there through out my
school days and when I
went to college I stopped
thinking about God all
together and was curious with what people were
following and started
following along. Although, everything
changed after my college
days, when I took a more
professional course; there I
met lot of new friends. One
friend, in particular, had this book called "Muhammad in
Hindu Scripture" written by
Ved Prakash Upadhyay. I
was astonished by two
