Jai Sitaram.
Every year millions of
Musliman(s) go on a pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia to visit the Kabba(h). The Kabba is the most sacred site of Islam. The Kabba houses a Black Stone surrounded by a silver frame which many Muslims kiss during their pilgrimage. So how is this Sacred Black Stone related to the Sanatan Dharma?
Many people believe that the Black Stone in Mecca is in-fact a Shiva Lingam.
In Tamil Lord Shiva is known as Kabbahliswar.
The following is
a little history on Arabia and its relation to the Vedic culture of what is now known as India or Bharat.The
prophet Muhammad picked something from every great religion so that all
practicing Muslims can get blessings from every major God. Since he
himself was a born Hindu, needless to say that Hinduism was closest to
his heart. That is the reason he chose Shiva and Durga as the Islamic
deity and moon as as the universal Islamic symbol.
"Hindus have been referring their Deity moon goddess Durga as "Allah" in Sankrit in their chants since early period of Hinduism"; Ref: Kaaba a Hindu temple
He
also chose Hindu God Lord Siva's temple "Kaaba" (built by King
Vikramaditya for Moon God Siva) as Islam's holiest place and required
all Muslims to pray and bow towards it. In addition he picked Hindu
pilgrimage Haj as the highest form of worship and the only worship which
washes all the sins away. He made black stone (Hajar Aswad ,the
symbolic lingum of Lord Siva , which was made a part of Siva temple
Kabah by King
Vikramaditya), as the most revered stone of Islam , to be touched and kissed by all pilgrims.
King
Vikramaditya inscription was found in the Kaaba in Mecca proving beyond
doubt that the Arabian Peninsula formed a part of his Indian Empire and
that he, who highly revered Lord Siva, built the Siva temple called
Kabah.. The text of the crucial Vikramaditya inscription, found
inscribed on a gold dish hung inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, is found
recorded on page 315 of a volume known as 'Sayar-ul-Okul' treasured in
the Makhtab-e-Sultania library in Istanbul, Turkey. Rendered in free
English the inscription says:
"Fortunate
are those who were born (and lived) during king Vikram's reign. He was a
noble, generous dutiful ruler, devoted to the welfare of his subjects. But
at that time we Arabs, oblivious of God, were lost in sensual
pleasures. Plotting and torture were rampant. The darkness of ignorance
had enveloped
Arabia. The entire country was enveloped in a darkness. But the present
dawn and pleasant sunshine of education is the result of the favour of
the noble king Vikramaditya whose benevolent supervision did not lose
sight of the Arabs. He spread his sacred religion amongst them and sent
scholars to Arabia from India. These scholars and preceptors through
whose benevolence we were once again made cognizant of the presence of
God, introduced to His sacred existence and put on the road of Truth,
had come to our country to preach their religion and impart education at
king Vikramaditya's behest."
Many Kabah stones have Sanskrit words inscribed, however the black curtain covers these inscriptions.
Another
Hindu tradition Mohammad maintained from his Hindu days is that of the
sacred water concept during Hindu pilgrimage and worship. According to
the Hindu tradition sacred water (of Ganga) is also inseparable from the
Shiva emblem as the crescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem,
sacred water must co-exist. True to that association a sacred fountain
exists near the Kaaba. Its water is held sacred because it has been
traditionally regarded representing Ganga water since pre-Islamic times
(Zam-Zam water). Muslim pilgrims who go to the Kaaba for Haj regard this
Zam-Zam water with reverence and take some bottled water with them as
sacred water. (like Hindus take Ganga water home from pilgrimage). Many
Muslims soak their shrouds with the sacred zam zam water, a religious
tradition from their Hindu ancestry of pouring sacred Ganga water on
their dead.
Prophet
Mohammad also kept the Hindu religious tenet of circumambulating seven
times in their religious ceremonies. Our prophet ordered Muslims to go
around kabah seven times as part of Haj which was part of Hindu worship
prior to capture of Mecca.
Hindus
also practice all night worship of moon Goddess Durga (Allah) on
certain nights called "Jagratta" and believe that by doing that their
worship is worth a lot more blessings. Prophet Mohammad did not want
Muslims to lose out on that count and thus included three "Jagratas" in
Islam, shab-e-Qadar, Shab-e-Barat and Shab-e-Meraj when Muslim salats
are worth a lot more than average salat. Practising Muslims pray during
these nights to gain extra blessings.
Prophet
Mohammad incorporated the following Hindu religious rituals and
concepts to ensure that Muslims also get blessed by Hindu Gods Siva and
Hindu Goddess Allah ( Durga)
Adopting Hindu deity moon God Allah as the deity of Islam
Making Hindu Moon God Siva's temple Kaaba as the holiest place of Islam
Making the black stone as the most holy stone of Islam and making touching and kissing of it as a a blissful act of Sunnah.
Adopting the Hindu pilgrimages Haj and Umra as the highest worship in Islam.
Shaving the heads as Hindus do for pilgrimages
Circumambulating the Siva temple Kabah 7 times as Hindus did.
Adopting the Hindu concept of washing all the sins by making the holy pilgrimage.
Collecting holy water representing Ganga Jal (zam zam water) as Hindus do to take holy blessings home.
Wearing White seamless cloth during pilgrimage as Hindus wear during their religious ceremonies and pilgrimages.
Celebrating the completion of worship of Siva temple Kabah by giving it the Hindu Sanskrit name of EidEid.
Including all night worships of moon God Allah (Durga) called Jagratta as part of Islam.
For those who would like to read the Arabic wording I reproduce it hereunder in Roman script:
"Itrashaphai
Santu Ibikramatul Phahalameen Karimun Yartapheeha Wayosassaru
Bihillahaya Samaini Ela Motakabberen Sihillaha Yuhee Quid min howa
Yapakhara phajjal asari nahone osirom bayjayhalem. Yundan blabin Kajan
blnaya khtoryaha sadunya kanateph netephi bejehalin Atadari bilamasa-
rateen phakef tasabuhu kaunnieja majekaralhada walador. As hmiman
burukankad toluho watastaru hihila Yakajibaymana balay kulk amarena
phaneya jaunabilamary Bikramatum".
(Page 315 Sayar-ul-okul).
[Note: The title 'Saya-ul-okul' signifies memorable words.]
A careful analysis of the above inscription enables us to draw the following conclusions:
That
the ancient Indian empires may have extended up to the eastern
boundaries of Arabia until Vikramaditya and that it was he who for the
first time conquered Arabia. Because the inscription says that king
Vikram who dispelled the darkness of ignorance from Arabia.
That,
whatever their earlier faith, King Vikrama's preachers had succeeded in
spreading the Vedic (based on the Vedas, the Hindu sacred scriptures))
way of life in Arabia.
That the knowledge of Indian arts and sciences
was imparted by Indians to the Arabs directly by founding schools,
academies and cultural centres. The belief, therefore, that visiting
Arabs conveyed that knowledge to their own lands through their own
indefatigable efforts and scholarship is unfounded.
An
ancillary conclusion could be that the so-called Kutub Minar (in Delhi,
India) could well be king Vikramadiya's tower commemorating his
conquest of Arabia. This conclusion is strengthened by two pointers.
Firstly, the inscription on the iron pillar near the so-called Kutub
Minar refers to the marriage of the victorious king Vikramaditya to the
princess of Balhika. This Balhika is none other than the Balkh region in
West Asia. It could be that Arabia was wrestled by king Vikramaditya
from the ruler of Balkh who concluded a treaty by giving his daughter in
marriage to the victor. Secondly, the township adjoining the so called
Kutub Minar is named Mehrauli after Mihira who was the renowned
astronomer-mathematician of king Vikram's court. Mehrauli is the corrupt
form of Sanskrit 'Mihira-Awali' signifying a row of houses raised for
Mihira and his helpers and assistants working on astronomical
observations made from the tower.
Having
seen the far reaching and history shaking implications of the Arabic
inscription concerning king Vikrama, we shall now piece together the
story of its find. How it came to be recorded and hung in the Kaaba in
Mecca. What are the other proofs reinforcing the belief that Arabs were
once followers of the Indian Vedic way of life and that tranquillity and
education were ushered into Arabia by king Vikramaditya's scholars,
educationists from an uneasy period of "ignorance and turmoil" mentioned
in the inscription.
In Istanbul, Turkey, there is a famous library
called Makhatab-e-Sultania, which is reputed to have the largest
collection of ancient West Asian literature. In the Arabic section of
that library is an anthology of ancient Arabic poetry. That anthology
was compiled from an earlier work in A.D. 1742 under the orders of the
Turkish ruler Sultan Salim.
The
pages of that volume are of Hareer – a kind of silk used for writing
on. Each page has a decorative gilded border. That anthology is known as
Sayar-ul-Okul. It is divided into three parts. The first part contains
biographic details and the poetic compositions of pre-Islamic Arabian
poets. The second part embodies accounts and verses of poets of the
period beginning just after prophet Mohammad's times, up to the end of
the Banee-Um-Mayya dynasty. The third part deals with later poets up to
the end of Khalif Harun-al-Rashid's times.
Abu Amir Asamai, an Arabian bard who was the poet Laureate of Harun-al-Rashid's court, has compiled and edited the anthology.
The
first modern edition of 'Sayar-ul-Okul' was printed and published in
Berlin in 1864. A subsequent edition is the one published in Beirut in
1932.
The
collection is regarded as the most important and authoritative
anthology of ancient Arabic poetry. It throws considerable light on the
social life, customs, manners and entertainment modes of ancient Arabia.
The book also contains an elaborate description of the ancient shrine
of Mecca, the town and the annual fair known as OKAJ which used to be
held every year around the Kaaba temple in Mecca. This should convince
readers that the annual haj of the Muslims to the Kaaba is of earlier
pre-Islamic congregation.
But
the OKAJ fair was far from a carnival. It provided a forum for the
elite and the learned to discuss the social, religious, political,
literary and other aspects of the Vedic culture then pervading Arabia.
'Sayar-ul-Okul' asserts that the conclusion reached at those discussions
were widely respected throughout Arabia. Mecca, therefore, followed the
Varanasi tradition (of India) of providing a venue for important
discussions among the learned while the masses congregated there for
spiritual bliss. The principal shrines at both Varanasi in India and at
Mecca in Arvasthan (Arabia) were Siva temples. Even to this day ancient
Mahadev (Siva) emblems can be seen. It is the Shankara (Siva) stone that
Muslim pilgrims reverently touch and kiss in the Kaaba.
Arabic
tradition has lost trace of the founding of the Kaaba temple. The
discovery of the Vikramaditya inscription affords a clue. King
Vikramaditya is known for his great devotion to Lord Mahadev (Siva). At
Ujjain (India), the capital of Vikramaditya, exists the famous shrine of
Mahankal, i.e., of Lord Shankara (Siva) associated with Vikramaditya.
Since according to the Vikramaditya inscription he spread the Vedic
religion, who else but he could have founded the Kaaba temple in Mecca?
A
few miles away from Mecca is a big signboard which bars the entry of
any non-Muslim into the area. This is a reminder of the days when the
Kaaba was stormed and captured solely for the newly established faith of
Islam. The object in barring entry of non-Muslims was obviously to
prevent its recapture.
As
the pilgrim proceeds towards Mecca he is asked to shave his head and
beard and to don special sacred attire that consists of two seamless
sheets of white cloth. One is to be worn round the waist and the other
over the shoulders. Both these rites are remnants of the old Vedic
practice of entering Hindu temples clean- and with holy seamless white
sheets.
The
main shrine in Mecca, which houses the Siva emblem, is known as the
Kaaba. It is clothed in a black shroud. That custom also originates from
the days when it was thought necessary to discourage its recapture by
camouflaging it.
According
to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Kaaba has 360 images. Traditional
accounts mention that one of the deities among the 360 destroyed when
the place was stormed, was that of Saturn; another was of the Moon and
yet another was one called Allah. That shows that in the Kaaba the Arabs
worshipped the nine planets in pre-Islamic days. In India the practice
of 'Navagraha' puja, that is worship of the nine planets, is still in
vogue. Two of these nine are Saturn and Moon.
In India the crescent
moon is always painted across the forehead of the Siva symbol. Since
that symbol was associated with the Siva emblem in Kaaba it came to be
grafted on the flag of Islam.
Another
Hindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the sacred stream
Ganga (sacred waters of the Ganges river). According to the Hindu
tradition Ganga is also inseparable from the Shiva emblem as the
crescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem, Ganga must co-exist.
True to that association a sacred fount exists near the Kaaba. Its water
is held sacred because it has been traditionally regarded as Ganga
since pre-Islamic times (Zam-Zam water).
[Note: Even today, Muslim
pilgrims who go to the Kaaba for Haj regard this Zam-Zam water with
reverence and take some bottled water with them as sacred water.]
Muslim
pilgrims visiting the Kaaba temple go around it seven times. In no
other mosque does the circumambulation prevail. Hindus invariably
circumambulate around their deities. This is yet another proof that the
Kaaba shrine is a pre-Islamic Indian Shiva temple where the Hindu
practice of circumambulation is still meticulously observed.
The
practice of taking seven steps- known as Saptapadi in Sanskrit- is
associated with Hindu marriage ceremony and fire worship. The
culminating rite in a Hindu marriage enjoins upon the bride and groom to
go round the sacred fire four times (but misunderstood by many as seven
times). Since "Makha" means fire, the seven circumambulations also
prove that Mecca was the seat of Indian fire-worship in the West Asia.
It
might come as a stunning revelation to many that the word 'ALLAH'
itself is Sanskrit. In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and Amba are
synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term 'ALLAH' forms part
of Sanskrit chants invoking goddess Durga, also known as Bhavani, Chandi
and Mahishasurmardini. The Islamic word for God is., therefore, not an
innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation retained and continued
by Islam. Allah means mother or goddess and mother goddess.
One
Koranic verse is an exact translation of a stanza in the Yajurveda.
This was pointed out by the great research scholar Pandit Satavlekar of
Pardi in one of his articles.
[Note:
Another scholar points out that the following teaching from the Koran
is exactly similar to the teaching of the Kena Upanishad (1.7).
The Koran:
"Sight perceives Him not. But He perceives men's sights; for He is the knower of secrets , the Aware."
Kena Upanishad:
"That
which cannot be seen by the eye but through which the eye itself sees,
know That to be Brahman (God) and not what people worship here (in the
manifested world)."
A simplified meaning of both the above verses reads:
God is one and that He is beyond man's sensory experience.]
The
identity of Unani and Ayurvedic systems shows that Unani is just the
Arabic term for the Ayurvedic system of healing taught to them and
administered in Arabia when Arabia formed part of the Indian empire.
It
will now be easy to comprehend the various Hindu customs still
prevailing in West Asian countries even after the existence of Islam
during the last 1300 years. Let us review some Hindu traditions which
exist as the core of Islamic practice.
The
Hindus have a pantheon of 33 gods. People in Asia Minor too worshipped
33 gods before the spread of Islam. The lunar calendar was introduced in
West Asia during the Indian rule. The Muslim month 'Safar' signifying
the 'extra' month (Adhik Maas) in the Hindu calendar. The Muslim month
Rabi is the corrupt form of Ravi meaning the sun because Sanskrit 'V'
changes into Prakrit 'B' (Prakrit being the popular version of Sanskrit
language). The Muslim sanctity for Gyrahwi Sharif is nothing but the
Hindu Ekadashi (Gyrah = elevan or Gyaarah). Both are identical in
meaning.
The
Islamic practice of Bakari Eed derives from the Go-Medh and Ashva-Medh
Yagnas or sacrifices of Vedic times. Eed in Sanskrit means worship. The
Islamic word Eed for festive days, signifying days of worship, is
therefore a pure Sanskrit word. The word MESH in the Hindu zodiac
signifies a lamb. Since in ancient times the year used to begin with the
entry of the sun in Aries, the occasion was celebrated with mutton
feasting. That is the origin of the Bakari Eed festival.
[Note: The word Bakari is an Indian language word for a goat.]
Since
Eed means worship and Griha means 'house', the Islamic word Idgah
signifies a 'House of worship' which is the exact Sanskrit connotation
of the term. Similarly the word 'Namaz' derives from two Sanskrit roots
'Nama' and 'Yajna' (NAMa yAJna) meaning bowing and worshipping.
Vedic
descriptions about the moon, the different stellar constellations and
the creation of the universe have been incorporated from the Vedas in
Koran part 1 chapter 2, stanza 113, 114, 115, and 158, 189, chapter 9,
stanza 37 and chapter 10, stanzas 4 to 7.
Recital
of the Namaz five times a day owes its origin to the Vedic injunction
of Panchmahayagna (five daily worship- Panch-Maha-Yagna) which is part
of the daily Vedic ritual prescribed for all individuals.
Muslims
are enjoined cleanliness of five parts of the body before commencing
prayers. This derives from the Vedic injuction 'Shareer Shydhyartham
Panchanga Nyasah'.
Four
months of the year are regarded as very sacred in Islamic custom. The
devout are enjoined to abstain from plunder and other evil deeds during
that period. This originates in the Chaturmasa i.e., the four-month
period of special vows and austerities in Hindu tradition. Shabibarat is
the corrupt form of Shiva Vrat and Shiva Ratra. Since the Kaaba has
been an important centre of Shiva (Siva) worship from times immemorial,
the Shivaratri festival used to be celebrated there with great gusto. It
is that festival which is signified by the Islamic word Shabibarat.
Encyclopaedias
tell us that there are inscriptions on the side of the Kaaba walls.
What they are, no body has been allowed to study, according to the
correspondence I had with an American scholar of Arabic. But according
to hearsay at least some of those inscriptions are in Sanskrit, and some
of them are stanzas from the Bhagavad Gita.
According
to extant Islamic records, Indian merchants had settled in Arabia,
particularly in Yemen, and their life and manners deeply influenced
those who came in touch with them. At Ubla there was a large number of
Indian settlements. This shows that Indians were in Arabia and Yemen in
sufficient strength and commanding position to be able to influence the
local people. This could not be possible unless they belonged to the
ruling class.
It
is mentioned in the Abadis i.e., the authentic traditions of Prophet
Mohammad compiled by Imam Bukhari that the Indian tribe of Jats had
settled in Arabia before Prophet Mohammad's times. Once when Hazrat
Ayesha, wife of the Prophet, was taken ill, her nephew sent for a Jat
physician for her treatment. This proves that Indians enjoyed a high and
esteemed status in Arabia. Such a status could not be theirs unless
they were the rulers. Bukhari also tells us that an Indian Raja (king)
sent a jar of ginger pickles to the Prophet. This shows that the Indian
Jat Raja ruled an adjacent area so as to be in a position to send such
an insignificant present as ginger pickles. The Prophet is said to have
so highly relished it as to have told his colleagues also to partake of
it. These references show that even during Prophet Mohammad's times
Indians retained their influential role in Arabia, which was a dwindling
legacy from Vikramaditya's times.
The
Islamic term 'Eed-ul-Fitr' derives from the 'Eed of Piters' that is
worship of forefathers in Sanskrit tradition. In India, Hindus
commemorate their ancestors during the Pitr-Paksha that is the fortnight
reserved for their remembrance. The very same is the significance of
'Eed-ul-Fitr' (worship of forefathers).
The
Islamic practice of observing the moon rise before deciding on
celebrating the occasion derives from the Hindu custom of breaking fast
on Sankranti and Vinayaki Chaturthi only after sighting the moon.
Barah
Vafat, the Muslim festival for commemorating those dead in battle or by
weapons, derives from a similar Sanskrit tradition because in Sanskrit
'Phiphaut' is 'death'. Hindus observe Chayal Chaturdashi in memory of
those who have died in battle.
The
word Arabia is itself the abbreviation of a Sanskrit word. The original
word is 'Arabasthan'. Since Prakrit 'B' is Sanskrit 'V' the original
Sanskrit name of the land is 'Arvasthan'. 'Arva' in Sanskrit means a
horse. Arvasthan signifies a land of horses., and as well all know,
Arabia is famous for its horses.
This
discovery changes the entire complexion of the history of ancient
India. Firstly we may have to revise our concepts about the king who had
the largest empire in history. It could be that the expanse of king
Vikramaditya's empire was greater than that of all others. Secondly, the
idea that the Indian empire spread only to the east and not in the west
beyond say, Afghanisthan may have to be abandoned. Thirdly the
effeminate and pathetic belief that India, unlike any other country in
the world could by some age spread her benign and beatific cultural
influence, language, customs, manners and education over distant lands
without militarily conquering them is baseless. India did conquer all
those countries physically wherever traces of its culture and language
are still extant and the region extended from Bali island in the south
Pacific to the Baltic in Northern Europe and from Korea to Kaaba. The
only difference was that while Indian rulers identified themselves with
the local population and established welfare states, Moghuls and others
who ruled conquered lands perpetuated untold atrocities over the
vanquished.
'Sayar-ul-Okul'
tells us that a pan-Arabic poetic symposium used to be held in Mecca at
the annual Okaj fair in pre-Islamic times. All leading poets used to
participate in it.
Poems
considered best were awarded prizes. The best-engraved on gold plate
were hung inside the temple. Others etched on camel or goatskin were
hung outside. Thus for thousands of years the Kaaba was the treasure
house of the best Arabian poetic thought inspired by the Indian Vedic
tradition.
That
tradition being of immemorial antiquity many poetic compositions were
engraved and hung inside and outside on the walls of the Kaaba. But most
of the poems got lost and destroyed during the storming of the Kaaba by
Prophet Mohammad's troops. The Prophet's court poet, Hassan-bin-Sawik,
who was among the invaders, captured some of the treasured poems and
dumped the gold plate on which they were inscribed in his own home.
Sawik's grandson, hoping to earn a reward carried those gold plates to
Khalif's court where he met the well-known Arab scholar Abu Amir Asamai.
The latter received from the bearer five gold plates and 16 leather
sheets with the prize-winning poems engraved on them. The bearer was
sent away happy bestowed with a good reward.
On
the five gold plates were inscribed verses by ancient Arab poets like
Labi Baynay, Akhatab-bin-Turfa and Jarrham Bintoi. That discovery made
Harun-al-Rashid order Abu Amir to compile a collection of all earlier
compositions. One of the compositions in the collection is a tribute in
verse paid by Jarrham Bintoi, a renowned Arab poet, to king
Vikramaditya. Bintoi who lived 165 years before Prophet Mohammad had
received the highest award for the best poetic compositions for three
years in succession in the pan-Arabic symposiums held in Mecca every
year. All those three poems of Bintoi adjudged best were hung inside the
Kaaba temple, inscribed on gold plates. One of these constituted an
unreserved tribute to King Vikramaditya for his paternal and filial rule
over Arabia. That has already been quoted above.
Pre-Islamic
Arabian poet Bintoi's tribute to king Vikramaditya is a decisive
evidence that it was king Vikramaditya who first conquered the Arabian
Peninsula and made it a part of the Indian Empire. This explains why
starting from India towards the west we have all Sanskrit names like
Afghanisthan (now Afghanistan), Baluchisthan, Kurdisthan, Tajikiathan,
Uzbekisthan, Iran, Sivisthan, Iraq, Arvasthan, Turkesthan
(Turkmenisthan) etc.
Historians
have blundered in not giving due weight to the evidence provided by
Sanskrit names pervading over the entire west Asian region. Let us take a
contemporary instance. Why did a part of India get named Nagaland even
after the end of British rule over India? After all historical traces
are wiped out of human memory, will a future age historian be wrong if
he concludes from the name Nagaland that the British or some English
speaking power must have ruled over India? Why is Portuguese spoken in
Goa (part of India), and French in Pondichery (part of India), and both
French and English in Canada? Is it not because those people ruled over
the territories where their languages are spoken? Can we not then justly
conclude that wherever traces of Sanskrit names and traditions exist
Indians once held sway? It is unfortunate that this important piece of
decisive evidence has been ignored all these centuries.
Another
question which should have presented itself to historians for
consideration is how could it be that Indian empires could extend in the
east as far as Korea and Japan, while not being able to make headway
beyond Afghanisthan? In fact land campaigns are much easier to conduct
than by sea. It was the Indians who ruled the entire West Asian region
from Karachi to Hedjaz and who gave Sanskrit names to those lands and
the towns therein, introduce their pantheon of the fire-worship,
imparted education and established law and order.
It
may be that Arabia itself was not part of the Indian empire until king
Vikrama , since Bintoi says that it was king Vikrama who for the first
time brought about a radical change in the social, cultural and
political life of Arabia. It may be that the whole of West Asia except
Arabia was under Indian rule before Vikrama. The latter added Arabia too
to the Indian Empire. Or as a remote possibility it could be that king
Vikramaditya himself conducted a series of brilliant campaigns annexing
to his empire the vast region between Afghanisthan and Hedjaz.
Incidentally
this also explains why king Vikramaditya is so famous in history. Apart
from the nobility and truthfulness of heart and his impartial filial
affection for all his subjects, whether Indian or Arab, as testified by
Bintoi, king Vikramaditya has been permanently enshrined in the pages of
history because he was the world's greatest ruler having the largest
empire. It should be remembered that only a monarch with a vast empire
gets famous in world history. Vikram Samvat (calendar still widely in
use in India today) which he initiated over 2000 years ago may well mark
his victory over Arabia, and the so called Kutub Minar (Kutub Tower in
Delhi), a pillar commemorating that victory and the consequential
marriage with the Vaihika (Balkh) princess as testified by the nearby
iron pillar inscription.
A
great many puzzles of ancient world history get automatically solved by
a proper understanding of these great conquests of king Vikramaditya.
As recorded by the Arab poet Bintoi, Indian scholars, preachers and
social workers spread the fire-worship ceremony, preached the Vedic way
of life, manned schools, set up Ayurvedic (healing) centres, trained the
local people in irrigation and agriculture and established in those
regions a democratic, orderly, peaceful, enlightened and religious way
of life. That was of course, a Vedic Hindu way of life.
It
is from such ancient times that Indian Kshtriya royal families, like
the Pahalvis and Barmaks, have held sway over Iran and Iraq. It is those
conquests, which made the Parsees Agnihotris i.e., fire-worshippers. It
is therefore that we find the Kurds of Kurdisthan speaking a
Sanskritised dialect, fire temples existing thousands of miles away from
India, and scores of sites of ancient Indian cultural centres like
Navbahar in West Asia and the numerous viharas in Soviet Russia spread
throughout the world. Ever since so many viharas are often dug up in
Soviet Russia, ancient Indian sculptures are also found in excavations
in Central Asia. The same goes for West Asia.
[Note:
Ancient Indian sculptures include metal statues of the Hindu deity
Ganesh (the elephant headed god); the most recent find being in Kuwait].
Unfortunately
these chapters of world history have been almost obliterated from
public memory. They need to be carefully deciphered and rewritten. When
these chapters are rewritten they might change the entire concept and
orientation of ancient history.
In
view of the overwhelming evidence led above, historians, scholars,
students of history and lay men alike should take note that they had
better revise their text books of ancient world history. The existence
of Hindu customs, shrines, Sanskrit names of whole regions, countries
and towns and the Vikramaditya inscriptions reproduced at the beginning
are a thumping proof that Indian Kshatriyas once ruled over the vast
region from Bali to Baltic and Korea to Kaaba in Mecca, Arabia at the
very least.
SAYAR-UL-OKUL
is a poem by UMAR-BINE-HASSNAM (Poetic Title: ABBUL-HIQAM meaning
Father of Knowledge). He was an uncle of prophet Mohammed. He refused to
get converted to Islam. He died a martyr at the hands of Muslim
fanatics who wanted to wipe out non-Muslims. This poem was adjudged as
the best in the annual fair at Kaaba.
QAFA VINAK ZIQRA MIN ULUMIN TAV
ASERU KALUBAN AYATTUL HAWA VA TAZAKKARU
A man who has spent all his life in sin and immorality and has wasted away his life in passion and fury,
VA TAZAKEROHA AUDAN ELALVADAE LILVARA
VALUK YANK ZATULLA HE YOM TAB ASERU
If he repents in the end and wants to return to morality, is there a way for his redemption?
VA AHLOLAHA AZAHU ARMIMAN MAHADEV O
MANAZEL ILAMUDDINE MINJUM VA SAYATTARU
Even if only once he sincerely worships Mahadeva, he can attain the highest position in the path of righteousness.
VA SAHABI KEYAM FEEM QAMIL HINDE YOMAN
VA YAQULOON LATAHAZAN FAINNAK TAVAJ3ARU
Oh
Lord! Take away all my life and in return pray grant me even a single
day's stay in Hind (India) as a man becomes spiritually free on reaching
that holy land.
MAYASSAYARE AKHALAQAN HASNAN KULLAHUM
NAJUMUN AZAAT SUMM GABUL HINDU
By
dint of a pilgrimage of Hind a man attains the merit of noble deeds and
gets the privilege of pious touch with ideal Hindu teachers.
It
was Islam that extinguished the light of knowledge in Vedic Arabia. It
is ironic that the man who brought about such darkness himself belonged
to the Qurayshi Tribe of Mecca. The Qurayshi were particularly devoted
to Allah (Durga) and the famous Shivling of the Kaaba Temple. The fact
that the Shivling remains to this day in the Kaaba is solely due to the
fact that it happened to be the Qurayshi tribe's faceless Family Deity.
As I mentioned before Muhammad's name itself came from Mahadeva, which
is another cognate for Lord Shiva. Muhammad's own uncle,
Umar-Bin-E-Hassham was a staunch Hindu and fervent devotee of Lord
Shiva. He was a renowned poet and wrote many verses in praise of Shiva.
One of these has survived on page 235 of Sair-Ul-Okul and reads as
follows:
Kafavomal fikra min ulumin Tab asayru
Kaluwan amataul Hawa was Tajakhru
We Tajakhayroba udan Kalalwade-E Liboawa
Walukayanay jatally, hay Yauma Tab asayru
Wa Abalolha ajabu armeeman MAHADEVA
Manojail ilamuddin minhum wa sayattaru
Wa Sahabi Kay-yam feema-Kamil MINDAY Yauman
Wa Yakulum no latabahan foeennak Tawjjaru
Massayaray akhalakan hasanan Kullahum
Najumum aja- at Summa gabul HINDU
which translates as:
The man who may spend his life in sin
and irreligion or waste it in lechery and wrath
If at least he relent and return to
righteousness can he be saved?
If but once he worship Mahadeva with a pure
heart, he will attain the ultimate in spirituality.
Oh Lord Shiva exchange my entire life for but
a day's sojourn in India where one attains salvation.
But one pilgrimage there secures for one all
merit and company of the truly great.
However,
more significant was the fact that the Kaaba was an extremely rich and
ornate temple. On its walls hung innumerable gold plaques commemorating
the winners of the annual poetry competition known as the Okaj fair.
There were gold, silver and precious gems everywhere. It is no wonder
that Muhammad armed with his facade of a new brand of religion set out
to capture the immense wealth of the Vedic shrine of Mecca. After
plundering the riches of the Kaaba, the wealth enabled him to
systematically destroy all traces of the religion that threatened him so
directly. It is an indisputable fact that money will make any low
criminal devoutly religious in a hurry.
- Despite
the fact that Muhammad had to destroy all traces of Hinduism in order
to make his "new religion" work, he knew that in order to fool people
convincingly he would have to borrow from the Vedic culture that
surrounded him. Being illiterate he picked out rituals and symbols that
he didn't understand and distorted and falsified them for his own ends.
Here is a list of these distortions:
- Muhammad
destroyed all 360 idols, but even he could not summon the courage to
completely obliterate the Shivling in the Kaaba. He entered the temple
and kissed the black stone. The Shivling was so sacred that the man who
so detested idol- worship ended up kissing the largest idol in the
Kaaba. Later his followers in a fit of piety broke the Shivling and then
out of remorse repatched it together again. Today it lies broken at
seven places and held together by a silver band studded with silver
nails, bearing the name "Sangey Aswad" which came from the Sanskrit
Ashwet meaning non-white or black stone.
- He
jumbled up the Sanskrit words Nama and Yaja (which meant "bowing and
worshipping" respectively) into a combination word Namaz and used that
to describe his prescribed method of prayer.
- Because
the Vedic custom was to pray facing the East, in his hatred for all
things Hindu, he directed his followers to pray facing only the west.
- The
method of circling around a shrine seven times in a clockwise direction
is an ancient Vedic custom. Muhammad with his lack of originality
decided that the 7 ritual perambulations should be retained but again in
his hatred of all things Vedic decided the direction of the
perambulations should be anti-clockwise.
-
With his phobia of all things Vedic, Muhammad knew that the greatest
reminder and threat to his forced brand of religion were the beautiful
Vedic idols of Arabic temples. Thus he destroyed every idol he could
find and made idol worship the greatest crime for a Muslim. Such a man
could never have comprehended how an abstract concept can be conveyed
through a symbolic representation in the form of an image. Thus he made
all image representation a sin as well.
-
Vedic religion is known for its ancient oral tradition. It is well
known that the Vedic culture emphasized oral debate and expression far
more than the written word. In adition the oral recitation of Vedic
scriptures was always done in a lyrical fashion, utilizing music and
thus reaching a height of expression. In fear of this musical tradition
Muhammad decided to forbid Music.
All
Arabic copies of the Koran have the mysterious figure 786 imprinted on
them . No Arabic scholar has been able to determine the choice of this
particular number as divine. It is an established fact that Muhammad was
illiterate therefore it is obvious that he would not be able to
differentiate numbers from letters. This "magical" number is none other
than the Vedic holy letter "OM" written in Sanskrit (Refer to figure 2).
Anyone who knows Sanskrit can try reading the symbol for "OM" backwards
in the Arabic way and magically the numbers 786 will appear! 
