Did Sri Ramakrishna make a mistake in reading the real Islam when having practised to perfection its Sufi variant he came to the conclusion that all religions including Islam lead to God-realisation (Atmajnān/Self-realisation) when in truth the highest aim of Islam is not God-realisation but getting entry into Jannat (Heaven) where sensual pleasures of an exotic kind in limitless measure await the well-judged believers and martyrs (shaheeds) for the Islamic cause? Of course one can hardly fault him at that because being virtually unlettered, he was not privy to the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira, nor was he aware of Islamic history since inception till his day, nor in all probability had he been introduced by his spiritual preceptor in Islam, Gobinda Ray, to the violent lesser jihādi doctrine that forms the core of the warring political aspect of the Deen. Sri Ramakrishna's famous formulation of 'Jato mawt tato pawth' (As many faiths, so many paths) incorporating Islam as well was thus founded on a very marginal knowledge of its doctrines, selectively taught him by his preceptor to help him practise the Deen along the specific Sufi way.
It must be understood here that Sufism that is so akin to the Vedānta is not the classical Islam of the Qur'an but is in effect a heretic variant of Islam and highly divergent from the doctrine delivered by Gibreel from Allāh. Hence, Sri Ramakrishna did not quite practise classical Islam in the strictest sense of the term. Moreover, after achieving spiritual perfection along the path that he was led into by Gobinda Ray, he apostasised and reverted to idolatrous Hinduism, that is, he once more became a mushrik (polytheist) and a kafir (Islamic infidel) who was doctrinally doomed to Hell. All three of the Holy Trinity who we all adore as Divine Incarnations, nay, verily as God in the highest relative sense, are destined for Hell for the same reason if the Qur'an is to be recognised as the true Word of the Islamic God, final, irrevocable and inviolable. All our saints and sages, rishis and munis, Avatārs and Āchāryas are headed for Hell or are already there for being kafirs. Therefore, to eulogise Islam as a valid path to Ātmajnān (Self-realisation) without knowing the tenets of Islam as revealed in the trinity of Islamic scriptures is a self-defeating exercise, not merely in futility but furthermore as aiding the Dāwāh (invitation to Islam) that aims to convert non-Muslims to the Islamic fold and thereby destroy all other religions including Hinduism.
We need to be aware of the true tenets of Islam and avoid falling into the Ramakrishna Mission-propagated doctrine of Sri Ramakrishna that all religions lead to God and, that too, to the same God when in scriptural description of attributes the Islamic God so very much differs from the Hindu Gods/Goddesses, and the highest spiritual ideal of Islam is so very material and a heightened earthiness, so much lower than the purely spiritual ideal of the Upanishads, the Absolute Reality of the non-dual Brahman. We need to understand these core differences and in the knowledge thereof ought no more to be gullible like Thakur and his followers legion in ascribing to Islam attributes which are alien to it and in naiveté declaring that all religions lead to the Ultimate Truth.
Hindus, read, reflect and realise these things before passing puerile propositions on spiritual truth and reality in terms of their imaginary harmonic common endpoint, quoting the Shivamahimnasotram by the way to try and validate an invalid point.
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