WE HINDUS CONSIDER COW
AS HOLY WHY THEN MUSLIMS EAT COW?
REFERENCE: QUESTION NO:48
Ans:
This is one of the
common question We Muslim face by the Hindus, why you eat cow? Eat other animal’s
goat etc... But don't kill cow and eat...
Even after given all the proof of
scientific how well for the health etc... Yet they oppose on eating cow, even its
allowed in our Islam.
Normally it’s a
Misconception amongst the Hinds that Non-veg is prohibited in Hindu scriptures .We
are trying make aware the Hindus about
their religious scripture that it’s allowed to have Non-Veg as well Cow.
In India many especially political parties
they take up this issue, provoke the innocent people against Muslims in order
to gain Vote bank. We have no intention of force Hindus to eat Cow or Non-Veg but
to make aware that it’s also allowed in Hindus scriptures. At least it will
prevent rift or riots between two communities InshAllah.
THE BEST REPLY:
WE EAT BECAUSE IT MENTION IN VEDAS TO EAT
COW!!
Allah says in the
Qur’an
“Come to common terms as between as and you “
[Al-Qur’an ch 3 Verses 64]
We
don’t have any problem agreeing with what is similar in the Islam and Hinduism,
if anything contradicts with teaching of Islam then we don’t agree with that.
We can reply that we eat cow because
Vedas and other Hindus scripture allowed to eat , I am following this teaching
of Vedas ,Upanishads and other scriptures , which allowed to eat cow.
Note:
according to the most authentic scripture of Hinduism Vedas ,Upanishad cow is
not God.
ACCORDING
TO THE VEDAS
“Indra says theat, because, Indra was in desperate
condition, therefore he cooked intestines of a dog.
[Rig Vda book 4: hymn 18 mantra or verse 13]
“Agni is a Vedic God and is described as fed on Ox and Cow”
[Rig Vda book 10: hymn 16 mantra or verse 7]
“A ritual enveloping dead body with Cow’s flesh before
putting it on fire”.
[Rig Vda book 10: hymn 16 mantra or verse 7-10]
“Indra eats bulls”
[Rig Vda book 10: hymn 85 mantra or verse 13]
“Indra says, “They have cooked for me fifteen bulls and
twenty cows, so that I may eat the fats as well. Both sides of my belly are
full.”
[Rig Vda book 10: hymn 86 mantra or verse 7]
ACCORDING
TO THE UPANISHAD
“He who wishes, “May as son born to me, who will e a
reputed scholar, attend assemblies, speak words that one likes to hear, be
versed in all the Vedas and attain full longevity” Should have rice cooked with
beef that of a young mature bull and with his wife eat it mixed with ghee. Then
they will be able to produce such a son.
[Brahadaranyaka Upanishad Ch 6 Sec 4 Mantar 18]
ACCORDING TO THE MANUSMRITI:
“"The eater who eats the flesh of those to be eaten
does nothing bad, even if he does it day after day, for God himself created
some to be eaten and some to be eater."
[Manu Smruti, the law book of Hindus, in chapter 5 verse
30]
"Eating meat is right for the sacrifice; this is
traditionally known as a rule of the gods."
[Manu Smruti, the law book of Hindus, in chapter 5 verse
31]
"God himself created sacrificial animals for sacrifice...
therefore killing in a sacrifice is not killing."
[Manu Smruti, the law book of Hindus, in chapter 5 verse
39-40]
ACCORDING TO THE MAHABHARATA
Yudhishthira and Pitamah Bhishma about what food one should
offer to Pitris (ancestors) during the Shraddha (ceremony of dead) to keep them
satisfied. Paragraph reads as follows:
"Yudhishthira said, "O thou of great
puissance, tell me what that object is which, if dedicated to the Pitiris (dead
ancestors), become inexhaustible! What Havi, again, (if offered) lasts for all
time? What, indeed, is that which (if presented) becomes eternal?"
"Bhishma said, "Listen to me, O
Yudhishthira, what those Havis are which persons conversant with the rituals of
the Shraddha (the ceremony of dead) regard as suitable in view of Shraddha and
what the fruits are that attach to each. With sesame seeds and rice and barely
and Masha and water and roots and fruits, if given at Shraddhas, the pitris, O
king, remain gratified for the period of a month. With fishes offered at
Shraddhas, the pitris remain gratified for a period of two months. With the
mutton they remain gratified for three months and with the hare for four
months, with the flesh of the goat for five months, with the
bacon (meat of pig) for six months, and with the flesh of
birds for seven. With venison obtained from those deer that are called
Prishata, they remaingratified for eight months, and with that obtained from
the Ruru for nine months, and with the meat of Gavaya for ten months, With the
meat of the bufffalo their gratification lasts for eleven months. With beef
presented at the Shraddha, their gratification, it is said , lasts for a full
year. Payasa mixed with ghee is as much acceptable to the pitris as beef. With
the meat of Vadhrinasa (a large bull) the gratification of pitris lasts for
twelve years. The flesh of rhinoceros, offered to the pitris on anniversaries
of the lunar days on which they died, becomes inexhaustible. The potherb called
Kalaska, the petals of kanchana flower, and meat of (red) goat also, thus
offered, prove inexhaustible. So but natural if you want to keep your
ancestors satisfied forever, you should serve them the meat of red goat.
[Mahabharata Anushashan Parva chapter 88]
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
"You will be astonished if I tell you that, according to the old
ceremonials, he is not a good Hindu who does not eat beef. On certain
occasions he must sacrifice a bull and eat it." [The complete works of
Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3, Pg 536]
In the same volume he says,
"There was a time in this very India when, without eating beef, no Brahmin could remain a Brahmin;"
[The complete works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3, Pg 174]
Hinduism was influenced by other religions
Though Hindu Scriptures permit its followers to have non-vegetarian
food, many Hindus adopted the vegetarian system because they were
influenced by other religions like Jainism.
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