Similarities Between Christianity And Islam

Although often misunderstood, fundamentally, Islam is similar to other major world religions because of its views regarding devotion, moral code, and patriarchy. Although Islam lies at the opposite end of the religious spectrum than Hindu, based on the comparison of monotheism to polytheism, the parallels that Islam shares with other beliefs are enough that even the Islam Sufis argued that Christianity and Islam were two versions of the same religion (430, 431). The Islamic devotion to Muhammad as the supreme messenger is similar to Christianity’s dedication to Jesus of Nazareth, Buddhism’s reverence to the initial Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, and Hinduism’s regard for their multiple gods (417, 188, 166, and 174). In the thirteenth Century C.E., a popular Buddhist poet Rumi wrote a collection of poems called the Mathnawi; in which he advised, “Always seek with your whole self . . . by speech and by silence and by fragrance, catch the scent of the king everywhere” (451). To echo similar religions’ devotion to an omnipresent god, Muslims exacted customs that paved the way to spiritual enlightenment (416).
In Hinduism, the distinction was between good and evil (181). Apart from the sacred Hindu Upanishads, in a Second Century B.C.E. tale recorded in the Hindu Mahabharata titled Bhagavad Gita, Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, counsels a warrior to remain devoted, even when faced with the prospect of slaying his own kin in battle (201). Islam produced similar doctrines such as the Quran, from the seventh century C.E., which compares to Christianity’s Old Testament; the collection of Persian scholar al-Bukhari’s accounts of Muhammed in the Hadith, which compares to Christianity’s Gospel of Matthew; and The Sharia, written in the ninth century, which is the voice of Islamic Law (445, 449,