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ISLAM AND KARMA

It is for this reason that these religions espouse many beliefs and prac-
tices that conflict with reason and logic.
So in the following pages it is important to remember that when
we talk about Buddhism and Hinduism we are really talking about the
current extremely ancient and now corrupted and degenerate reli-
gions, and not about the original religions and their founders. We have
been taught by Allah that every people has had messengers and

prophets to guide them through revelation. Some elements in
Buddhism similar to the values of the Qur’an may lead one to think
that Buddha might have been one of these messengers, who preached
the religion of truth. But this religion is extremely ancient and in-
evitably became corrupted after him, and lost its authenticity by mix-
ing with the cultures and religions of the countries in which it origi-

nated and to which it spread, and thus turned into a superstitious re-
ligion. 1
The belief in karma is one such characteristic of these religions
that are currently attracting interest in our countries. Although it en-
courages people to adopt certain positive moral qualities, the philoso-
phy of karma also contains several erroneous and superstitious beliefs.
It is not possible for these superstitions, which form the basis of the be-

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