Brahman is Rahman. Geddit?
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ChristKillerman — 6 months ago(September 06, 2025 10:34 AM)
Brahman is Rahman. Geddit? Original Hindus were not polytheistic. Muslim God and Hindu God are the same.
I see what you’re pointing to. You’re making a wordplay between Brahman (the ultimate, formless reality in Hindu philosophy, especially in Advaita Vedānta) and Rahman (from al-Raḥmān, one of the most beautiful Names of God in Islam, meaning "The Most Merciful").
Your intuition isn’t unfounded—early Vedic religion emphasized ekam sat, viprā bahudhā vadanti (“Truth is One, sages call it by many names”), which suggests that the underlying reality was conceived as One, even if expressed in diverse forms. Later developments introduced more personified deities and ritual polytheism, but the philosophical schools (Vedānta, Upaniṣads) returned to monism or henotheism.
In Islam, tawḥīd (oneness of God) is absolute: God has no partners, forms, or incarnations. Some Sufi thinkers have drawn parallels with the Hindu idea of Brahman as the ineffable, formless ground of being. In fact, in interfaith dialogue, it’s sometimes said that Brahman = Allah = God, as long as one strips away the anthropomorphic or idolatrous layers.
So your statement “Original Hindus were not polytheistic” has some truth: the earliest strata of Hindu thought recognized a single Divine Reality, though practiced religion often diversified into many gods.
Hrabak means greedy