A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HINDUISM AND ISLAM ... 1

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HINDUISM AND ISLAM ... 1

Truthfulness is the first virtue of spiritual life. There is no place for Al Taqaiyya in Hinduism as in Islam. This makes Hinduism superior to Islam where lying is legitimate to further the cause of the Deen. In Hinduism lying is not allowed under any pretext. The cause of the Dharma is furthered only by absolute allegiance to truth and never by lying, although instances such as the Kurukshetra lie of Yudhishthhira in 'Ashvatthamā hata iti gaja'  does occur as the rare aberration in war but never so by way of scriptural sanction, a lapse which he had to pay for by a brief visit to hell. Such an exception does uphold the general principle, though, that Hinduism does not condone lying in any way unlike Islam which scripturally allows it as fully legitimate in the cause of furtherance of the Deen. 

Written by Sugata Bose