Hindu civilization before Islam

Thursday, 15 July 2010

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Hindu civilization from progress to decline

The Hindu civilization, which emerged in the third millennium BC, has had a long history in the march of humanity. The Hindus invented – most likely – the nine numerals and made contribution to trigonometry, as they used half chord and a table of sinuses. They also knew medicine, mathematics and astronomy[1].

In spite of the prosperity and glory of the Hindu culture, it started in the sixth century AD to take quick steps toward decline and decay in everything, especially in the religious, moral and social aspects, for several factors and reasons.

Abul Hasan Nadwi[2], head of Nadwat-ul-Ulama in India, gives an account of the civilization of India in the sixth century AD. He says that the authors of the India's history agreed that the lowest religious, moral and social aspects in India started in the early sixth century AD. After Nadwi had portrayed their corrupted faith, he said the most heinous class system emerged in India in a crueler, more class discriminating and more dishonoring manner that had never been witnessed by any nation in history.

The Brahmin Civilization

Three centuries before the Christ, the Brahmin civilization flourished in India, where a civil and political law was developed and agreed upon nationwide until it became an official law and a religious reference for the country. This law is known now as Manoucastr, which divided the people into four classes: (1) Brahmins, including priests and clergy; (2) Koshtrea, men of war; (3) Ouija, men of agriculture and trade; and (4) Shodra, the class of servants and slaves.

This law gave the Brahmins privileges and rights that made them like gods, stipulating that the Brahmins are the elite of God and the kings of creation and that what is in the world is theirs, because they are the best of creatures and masters of the world. It also said that they have the right to take money from their Shodra slaves as they like, because a slave does not have anything and all his money is to his master.

The outcast Shodra in the Indian society were, according to this religious civilian law, lower than beasts and more humiliated than dogs. The expiation for killing a dog, cat, frog, salamander, crow, owl and a man from the outcast class was the same[3].

Women in the Indian society

Regarding the status of women[4] in the Indian society, they were like bondmaids. A man might have lost his wife in gambling, and a woman might have several husbands. When a husband dies his wife does not have the right to marry and becomes a target for insults and defamation. She might become a bondmaid in the house of her deceased husband and servant to her relatives-in-law. She might burn herself following the death of her husband to avoid the woes and sufferings of life[5].

This was the civilization of India before Islam – blatant ignorance, degrading idolatry, and social injustice that has never been witnessed in any nation in history. For more information see Al-Biruni's[6] Tahqiq ma lil-Hind min Maqulah Maqbulah fil-`Aql aw Mardhulah (Reviewing What's Reasonably Accepted or Rejected in India's Culture), which stated and harshly criticized these aspects.

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