Many say that the Muslims were very fortunate to have Jinnah during their difficult struggle for Pakistan. Because of its location, it could choose to join either country; however, Hari Singh remained neutral. His choice was eventually ignored in , when Pakistan deployed Muslim tribesmen to capture the capital. At this point, Hari Singh freaked out and asked India for military assistance against Pakistan.
As we can see, the main reason for this conflict is religion. In British rulers of India divided India in two countries. Pakistan consisting of Muslims majority provinces and India with Hindus and other religious majority people cite? This partition was due to the demands by Muslims who found it impossible to live with Hindus as they were socially, morally and religiously different from them. In , to counter the growing influence of Hindu majority, graduates of this university organized a party of their own and named it the All India Muslim League.
Al-Beruni recorded his idea in A. The two societies, Hindus and Muslim like two streams have sometimes touched but never merged, each following its separate course. I want to make it clear that both nations belong t In their provinces they and their parties prevailed over the muslim league,but now they closed the ranks. With the constant disagreements and communal violence between the Hindus and Muslims, Jinnah felt that Muslims had no future in India.
With the end of British rule in , not only did India gain its independence but also along with it was born another country, Pakistan where Jinnah served as the first governor.
Despite numerous conflicts with the British and with the Muslims, India fought for its rights by doing what they felt was right. India under the British rule had some benefits as the new school system and outlawing sati but they did manage to trouble the Indians with taxation and other laws. Gandhi on the other hand was not very pleased with the idea of partition by means of religion, he felt that India should not be divided at all, but should continue to live in peace with one another.
Muslims in turn want the Babri Masjid rebuilt in the same spot. Neither side wants to give in and are currently fighting on. The most threatening conflict between Hindus and Muslims is the province of Kashmir. When a rule of democracy and self determination was being followed by the people of every part of the country then, how it came to be unavailable for this part of India.
To the general principle of self-determination, the Viceroy added a practical warning that in reaching a decision the inescapable consequences of frontier contiguity could not he ignored.
What happened next is history. In Junagadh, a small princedom with a Muslim ruler but a population which was predominantly Hindu, surrounded by Indian territory except for an outlet to the sea, the decision of the Nawab to join Pakistan was immediately thwarted by force of Indian arms - in the name of democracy. In Hyderabad, one of the few princely states large enough and strong enough economically to support itself, the Muslim ruler of a largely Hindu population opted, as was his constitutional right, for total independence, and initiated a referendum to test the will of his subjects.
Refusing to await the outcome of this, the Indian government, in what it soothingly described as a "police action," entered the territory with tanks and infantry and forcibly integrated the state with India. In Kashmir, partition rivalry between India and Pakistan produced an even more confused and dangerous situation. Thankful for an opportunity at long last to rid themselves of the autocratic minority Hindu regime which had ruled them so long, the local population supported by sympathetic tribesmen from outside the state rose in revolt and drove the Maharajah from the land.
The fleeing Prince sought Indian help and, in exchange for the promise of Indian military intervention on his side, signed an accession instrument in favor of India. In accepting this purported accession, the Indian government also accepted the condition that it should subsequently be ratified by a free and fair expression of the people's will.
Meanwhile, Pakistan refused to accept at all the validity of the ousted ruler's accession, and fearful of her own national security as Indian troops continued their advance northward toward her own frontiers, Pakistan moved her troops into Kashmir and a local war began. It was at this point that Nehru, who now so bitterly complains of United Nations interference in "an internal domestic matter," took the matter to the Security Council for settlement. After much bitter wrangling, a temporary truce and cease fire was arranged and accepted by both sides.
From that day to this, the story of Kashmir has been one of endlessly recurring delay, procrastination, and obstruction, by which India has sought to evade the obligations to hold a plebiscite that she solemnly affirmed between and Argument and counterargument have ranged over who was the original aggressor, the number of troops of each side that would have to be withdrawn before a fair test of public opinion could be held, and the terms and timing of the plebiscite. In patient efforts to end the deadlock, mediator after mediator, investigatory commission after investigatory commission, conciliator after conciliator, have been appointed.
Despite even the division in the Security Council between Communist and non-Communist powers, one unanimous recommendation after another—eleven in all, including neutral arbitration of the points of detail still in dispute have been put forward.
Every time Pakistan has said "Yes," India has said "No. Thus quite recently, when it at last seemed that the clouds were lifting, India suddenly announced that because Pakistan had joined in such anti-Communist security treaties with the West as SEATO and the Baghdad Pact, and had accepted military aid from the United States, Kashmir's self-determination was permanently debarred.
Now, the issue is once. While this controversy continues to rage, another perhaps even more menacing quarrel divides India and Pakistan; that of the division of their natural water resources. The Indus basin, watered by the Indus and its five main tributaries, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej, all having their source in Indian territory, forms one of the largest irrigation systems in the world, created during the bygone days of British rule.
On partition, the duly authorized representatives of both the two new countries gave assurances that each would abide by well-established principles of international law, requiring all riparian users of common rivers to respect one another's established uses and to divide surplus waters, in accordance with the rule of equitable apportionment.
Patient efforts by the' International Bank in Washington have so far failed to find a solution that would produce for India the extra irrigatory supplies she needs for her increasing millions of impoverished peasants, without reducing the flow no less vitally needed by Pakistan to feed her own fast-growing population.
For India the problem is grave, but for Pakistan it is one of national survival. If on this, as on all other outstanding issues between India and Pakistan, any permanent cure of the present estrangement is to be effected, sacrifices and gestures will have to be made by both sides. Hindus are monogamists, whereas Muslims are polygamists men being allowed to take several wives.
Also, when it comes to Muslim women, religion dictates that they do not wear clothes that are too tight and revealing. There are no religious restrictions for Hindu women. Hindus believe in an interference of the worshiped god in their life. Also, repentance for their sins is possible for unintentional sins, whereas intentional and unrepented sins will be regulated by karma, a universal law of balance in the universe.
Muslims must ask Allah directly for forgiveness. Otherwise, Hindus have no official clergy, although they can become gurus, priests, priestesses and Brahmins, who dedicate their lives to their God. Muslims have Imams to lead the prayer and the religious gatherings, but the relationship of each believer with God is without intermediaries.
Hindus lead good lives in order to attain enlightenment and break the cycle of reincarnations. If a Hindu has led a less than righteous life, he will come back as a lowly creature to a life of suffering. The closer the Hindu gets to enlightenment, the better his reincarnations will become. For a Muslim, it is important to live a life pleasing to Allah and in accordance with the religious requirements. The goal of Islam is that of making people live compassionate and peaceful lives.
Hindus are known worldwide for considering the cow and bull sacred animals and refusing to eat their meat. Muslims, on the other hand, will not eat pork, but not because they consider the animal sacred.
Also, Hinduism is a religion of peace with few attempts to convert others or to impose its beliefs. On the other hand, Islam has Holy Wars and has had active campaigns of converting even Hindu believers into Muslims.
Home Religion Difference between Hindu and Muslim. By: Editorial Staff Updated: Feb-8, Hindu Muslim Worships one of many gods; Hinduism is a polytheistic religion Worships only Allah; Islam is a monotheistic religion There are 1 billion Hindus in the world There are 1.
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