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Islam and Buddhism


                   Wherever a person is, it's absolutely true that God is with him.

               God knows what you're thinking at this very moment, as you're read-
               ing these words. God tells us that He sees us wherever we are:
                   You do not engage in any matter or recite any of the Qur'an or do
                   any action without Our witnessing you while you are occupied

                   with it. Not even the smallest speck eludes your Lord, either on
                   earth or in heaven. Nor is there anything smaller than that, or
                   larger, which is not in a Clear Book. (Qur'an, 10: 61)
                   It is He Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then es-
                   tablished Himself firmly on the Throne. He knows what goes into
                   the earth and what comes out of it, what comes down from heaven
                   and what goes up into it. He is with you wherever you are—God

                   sees what you do. (Qur'an, 57: 4)
                   This point reveals Buddhists' idolatrous understanding, as do
               many others. Buddha's followers regard him as all-seeing and all-

               knowing. The proliferation of statues of Buddha in countries where it
               is the dominant religion, and the eyes of Buddha painted on every
               temple all bear witness to Buddhists' deviant belief that Buddha sees
               them at every moment with his eyes made of stone or wood, and
               hears them with his wooden ears. For this reason, they fill their houses
               with his statues, in front of which they perform acts of reverence.

                   In this, they are acting contrary to intelligence and committing a
               grave sin. In the Qur'an (7: 195), God tells us that people who associ-
               ate others with God are greatly deceived; and that whatever things
               they have made into gods have no power over anything: "Do they













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