Nice ... This is a nice gesture.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM, kenny korg <[email protected]> wrote: > bro thanks for the good information... > > > On 2/20/2009 12:27 AM India Time, _ramakrisha laxmana subramanian siva gopala acharya iyer .aiyooo amma idli wada dosa sambar chatni ._ wrote: > > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 1:31 PM > > guys, there is lot of confusion with people that arr is islamist. that is > simply not true. I have been explaining this to so many people among my > friends I thought I will tell here also. arr has himself often distanced > from islam quite openly on many occassions during interviews .. by saying he > follows sufism. even as recently as last month, he told in an interview with > rediff that he is not religious but spiritual (when asked about islam). a > little background would help I guess .. sufism borrows most of its ideas > from buddhism.. like, sainthood, killing your ego(fanaa), the concept of > medetation and introspection etc. as a matter of fact, true islamists hate > the sufis. remember they even bombed the ajmer dargah in 2007 ? > > > for further reading check out these links > http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/1388/ > http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/study/islam/general/relation_between_buddhism_sufism.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanaa_(Sufism) > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sufism-Not-Islam-Comparative-Study/dp/8186030352 > > gops, hope u'll approve this.. cuz its relevant and puts things in right > perspective about arr. > > thanks > Dil. > >
