> Refutations of Buddhism?

[defendingislam]

Assalamu alaykum,

I would like to know if there are any substantive refutations of the Buddhist religion written by Muslims. From my search of the Internet, such articles are few and far between, and many times lack depth.

It would be good to see if there are any good articles and books written on this topic.

[Assad]

:wasalam:

Welcome to our iDawah Community.

You are absolutely right about lack of dawah material on Buddhism.One reason for this is that the religion is too vague to be given any consideration. I have had done much reading into the religion a year back and nothing made sense. Its just a one good man story who claim to have realized the truth of life under a tree and then he went on preaching his way of life. He never claimed to be from God or to be God himself. He was just teaching a way of life and later his followers took him to be God.

There are some research which says that Buddha may have been a prophet considering the prophecies in the Buddhist text. While It may be that the prophecies had been borrowed from earlier prophets. The text has never been authenticated in the Pali Script.

If you have any specific questions about Buddism than please ask and inshAllah I'll try to help.

Best Wishes

[defendingislam]

Salam Alaykum

Actually I have a site (http://www.defending-islam.com) and I am looking for articles and books covering different religions and how to bring all these people to Islam, and Buddhism is one of these sections.

Even though Buddhism is a vague religion, still its practitioners practise a "Deen" or a variety of "deens".

So the question would be how best to reach such people and what material is best to use in our job of Dawah to them.

Wa Salam.

[Assad]

Thats a good question. I think we should prepare our strategies of giving Dawah to the Buddhists..This should be a project for us.

Meanwhile , I'll visit your website and others and you do we all , along with everyone here , to build up an appropriate dawah plan for Buddhists.

Stay in touch.

[Assad]

There is a good material relating to Buddhism on your website. I think we should down and analyse their core beliefs and history , this should be a first part of our Dawah strategy.

[Qatada]

:wasalam:


welcome to the site akh :)


i dont think we got too much refutations to buddhism yet, probably because alot of us havn't looked into it and dont know where to start looking from [your site is probably the best place for a starting point insha Allah.] :)


i've heard in a talk that there are books which islamic scholars do have about buddhists, but we dont know how to access such information.


maybe you could give us some more ideas which we can branch into to insha Allah to improve what we've done presently on the forum already insha Allah. :)

[Qatada]

oh, what i would personally do is that if you're grounded well in true islamic teachings, and there aren't any islamic refutations - see refutations by non muslims who have already refuted the concepts of that group - and then apply the islamic principles to your refutation to what you've learnt from that former refutation.

that way you find a quicker solution insha Allah. :)

[binnasoordeen]

but Buddhism is little bit different I live in a community which has 80% Buddhist
for me they can be categorized into three groups

1. People who blindly follow Buddhism - these people are smiler to Hindus they believe in GOD and worship all religions

2. People who follow the tripittaka the Buddhist scripture mostly these people deny GOD but they have some superstitious belief like karma and rebirth etc...

3. Atheist who follow Buddhism and try to prove every aspect of Buddhism is scientific.

here in srilanka I personally know 1 person who doing da'wa to Buddhists
and some university students get convert to Buddhism due to lack of knowledge in islam

I will give some more points regarding Buddhists insha allah

[amar_labedi]

Originally Posted by defendingislam

Salam Alaykum

Actually I have a site (Defending Islam - Defending-Islam) and I am looking for articles and books covering different religions and how to bring all these people to Islam, and Buddhism is one of these sections.

Even though Buddhism is a vague religion, still its practitioners practise a "Deen" or a variety of "deens".

So the question would be how best to reach such people and what material is best to use in our job of Dawah to them.

Wa Salam.

Mashallah many Daees ignore this sect ...

Thanks for considering this