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of the Buddha and requiring poverty and destitution from its adher-
ents, in great detail in our book entitled Islam and Buddhism.

The interrelation between these three false religions is pronounced
with the Chinese saying “three religions are one religion”. Chinese peo-
ple consider all three religions as complimentary to one another. Whilst
Confucianism concentrates on social life and state governance, Taoism
and Buddhism focus on people’s spiritual development and everyday
life with their rituals, false beliefs and rites. Even though there a large
number of Buddhists in China, it is not considered a national religion
because it still contains Hindu principles and practices, which is why
Chinese culture tends to revolve more around Confucianism and

Taoism.

Confucianism
A Superstitious System Disregarding
Allah’s Existence and the Life of the Hereafter
Confucianism is a social system that has at present approximately

200 million followers and is deeply rooted in Chinese culture. Its teach-
ings are also widely practiced in Japan, Burma, Singapore and
Thailand. It is the ordered and systemized product of various religions
that have been practiced during China’s 4,000-year history.
Superstitious Chinese religions are based on many nonsensical
teachings and rest on the principle of faith in imaginary deities, and the
spirits of ancestors, earth, water, mountains, forests and nature in gen-
eral. Pagan rituals, acts of worship, sorcery, fortune telling and clair-
voyance are common ground in Chinese society. The ancient agricul-

tural society of China worshipped nature in ignorance, which they be-
lieved to be responsible for prosperity and famine, wealth and pover-
ty. Furthermore, they believed in the influence of stars on everything

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