Dakwah kepada Buddhis [oleh agama Is***]

[nyanadhana]

maksudnya Dee dan Marcell?

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Dee??? maksudnya cerita Imani gadis Srilanka dan cewe chinatown itu lho.
Memang ada apa dengan dee? Bukannya dia masih baik2 saja ya?

[marcedes]

memang kadang ada beberapa buddhism yang belum memiliki pengetahuan....bisa saja goyah.......

tetapi kepercayaan agama lain lebih disebabkan dengan dogma..sedangkan buddhism kenyataan.

[dilbert]

memang kadang ada beberapa buddhism yang belum memiliki pengetahuan....bisa saja goyah.......

tetapi kepercayaan agama lain lebih disebabkan dengan dogma..sedangkan buddhism kenyataan.

dijamin yang goyah itu bukan belajar ajaran buddha... tetapi ajaran yang "katanya" buddha... lha... tuh dalam cerita-nya kan katanya si ce-chinese yang beragama "buddha" merasa "berdosa" karena menyembah patung/berhala... yang seperti ini kan tidak ada di dalam ajaran buddha...

[Jerry]

memang kadang ada beberapa buddhism yang belum memiliki pengetahuan....bisa saja goyah.......

tetapi kepercayaan agama lain lebih disebabkan dengan dogma..sedangkan buddhism kenyataan.

Begitu pula alasan dr mereka yg memiliki sudut pandang Selam, terutama yg radikal. "Kepercayaan mereka berdasar pada Kebenaran dan kita tidak." Gak kan ada titik temunya kalo gini terus..

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Buddhism's Misguided Belief About the Afterlife

Buddhism's belief in karma leaves no room for belief in the eternal afterlife, Paradise or Hell. This false and perverse position —the idea that an individual returns into the world after each death, continually—conflicts with what God has revealed in the Qur'an. In The Religions of India, Edward Washburn Hopkins, a professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, explains that Buddhism does not believe in an afterlife:
. . . The logic of his own system led Buddha into a formal and complete pessimism, which denies an after-life to the man that finds no happiness in this . . . In his talks with his questioners and disciples, he uses all means to evade direct inquiry in regard to the fate of man after death. He believed that Nirvana (extinction of lust) led to cessation of being; he did not believe in an immortal soul... What he urged repeatedly was that every one accepting the undisputed doctrine of karma or re-birth in its full extent (i.e., that for every sin here, punishment followed in the next existence), should endeavor to escape, if possible, from such an endless course of painful re-births. . .4
From some Buddhist writings, one can glean the following information on the afterlife:
Whether one is reborn in Heaven or in one of the various levels of Hell, the forms of existence in these places are transitory, as they are on earth, and are not eternal. As in Hinduism, the period of time during which . . . individuals remain in these places depends on the amount of good and evil they have done while on earth. When the prescribed time has been completed, they will return to earth again. Heaven and Hell are no more than temporary states of existence in which the individuals receive their reward for the acts they have committed while on earth.5
Buddhism teaches that there is a kind of Paradise and Hell, as a reward and punishment for what a person has done. But because this belief does not stem from a revealed religion, it contains many contradictions and illogicalities. Above all, and contrary to what God has revealed in the Qur'an, Buddhism believes that Paradise and Hell are only transitory.
Again, one of this belief's most illogical aspects is the idea that all systems in the world operate, in effect, by themselves. According to Buddhism, just as the existence of the universe and human beings is uncontrolled, so is the cycle of death and re-birth. There is no room in this belief for a Creator Who has brought into existence the world and the life upon it, together with Paradise and Hell, and rewards human beings for what they have done. However, accepting the existence of Paradise and Hell as places where reward and punishment are given, but not explaining how these realms were created, is an extremely illogical, unacceptable claim.
But who deals out the rewards and punishments? Moreover, how were these realms created? The philosophy of karma claims no account of how Paradise and Hell could have come into being without a Creator. This superstitious belief has been passed down from generation to generation, without ever being questioned or logically explained. Buddhism has no logical explanation for the existence of the universe or how it functions, nor of the origin of the flawless creative art evident in all living things. For this reason, Buddhism can never presume to be more than a mystical movement with no basis in logic, supported only by myths.


The Reality Awaiting Us in the Hereafter

The only source where we can learn the facts about life in this world and belief in the afterlife is the Qur'an, sent down as a guide for human beings and the teachings (Sunnah) of the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace).
God says in the Qur'an that life in this world is a temporary testing period for everyone, and that the afterlife is our eternal homeland. Everyone will have a reward in Paradise or Hell for all the deeds he has done over the lifetime he has spent in this world. God reveals this truth in these words (Qur'an, 6: 32):
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The hereafter is better for those who do their duty. So will you not use your intellect?
Someone who submits to God, conforming his life to the true guide He has sent down and to the teachings of the Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace), believes with all his heart that on the Last Day, he will account for all for his deeds—and will receive the reward in eternal Paradise or endless Hell. God has revealed this to humanity in the books He has sent down and the prophets He has chosen. But Buddhism is a man-made doctrine, built through hearsay on the foundation of a philosophy propounded by one single man.
Using human reasoning to change what has come from God is a serious error. Those who get their heads full of half-baked ideas about the Buddhist way and, in their desire to imitate their favorite pop musicians or film stars, start to follow Buddhism as a fad, should consider this and free themselves from their mistake.
In the Qur'an, God reveals the state of those who say there in no afterlife:

As for those who denied Our Signs and the encounter of the hereafter, their actions will come to nothing. Will they be repaid except for what they did? (Qur'an, 7: 147)

But as for those who did not believe and denied Our Signs and meeting in the hereafter, they will be summoned to the punishment (Qur'an, 30: 16).

The "repayment" and "punishment" mentioned in these verses will begin at the moment of death. Those who realize what an error they had been living during their earthly lives will feel unrepentable sorrow:

If only you could see when they are standing before the Fire and saying, "Oh! If only we could be sent back again, we would not deny the Signs of our Lord and we would be among the believers." (Qur'an, 6: 27)

If only you could see the evildoers hanging their heads in shame before their Lord: "Our Lord, we have seen and we have heard, so send us back again and we will act rightly. Truly we now have certainty." (Qur'an, 32: 12)

However much they may beg and ask for forgiveness, they will begin an afterlife full of agony from which there is no escape, much less a return. Their repentance will not be accepted, and never will their desire to return to the world be fulfilled. Though warned many times, the godless who did not believe—and bowed themselves before statues of stone and wood that they associated with God; who espoused vain philosophies only as a show to attract the interest of others; who did not fear God as they should have—will enter unending humiliation from the moment they meet the Angel of Death. Their souls will be taken with blows to their back and sides, they will be grabbed by the forelock and be thrown into Hell; this will be the beginning of their afterlife.
God will not allow them to speak, and their voices will be no louder than a whisper. (Qur'an, 20: 108) Hell will be the final place for all those godless people who exalted themselves before God, did not believe in the resurrection or the afterlife, were rebellious despite the warnings and did not lead a moral life. The people of Hell, "shackled together in chains" (Qur'an, 25: 13), will be jammed into "a sealed vault of Fire" (Qur'an, 90: 20) and live in the murk of thick black smoke. They will hear the fire gasping harshly as it seethes and find people moaning in it. Their endless pain will never be relieved, despite their entreaties, causing them indescribable anxiety.
Physically, the denizens of Hell will have a terrible appearance. They will be bound with shackles and chains, and their eyes will be downcast, darkened by debasement. A scorching wind will burn their skin, which will be continually replaced to burn yet again, as God describes in verse 4: 56, "Every time their skins are burned off, We will replace them with new skins." They will be beaten with cudgels made of iron and bound in "a chain which is seventy cubits long" (Qur'an, 69: 32). Their foreheads, sides and backs will be branded with the fire. Boiling water will be poured over their heads, and they will be wearing shirts of tar.
The Qur'an also tells about the terrible food and drink reserved for those in Hell. God announces in verse 69: 36 that they will have "no food except exuding pus" to eat—which people in this world can hardly stand. In the Hell they have entered for forgetting God and pursuing their own passions in this life, they will be made to drink boiling water mixed with pus. And because nothing will pass through their torn throats, they will not be able to swallow. In Hell, God will also make the sinners eat bitter thorny bush and zaqqum (the infernal tree):

The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked, seething in the belly like molten brass, as boiling water bubbles and seethes. (Qur'an, 44: 43-45)

As for those who believe in God and turn to Him, they will not be condemned to this state, but will pass through an easy accounting. Because they did not follow vain philosophies and, in order to please God and fearing the torments of Hell, lived according to the Qur'an, they will receive their eternal reward and be welcomed in Paradise, free from fear, sorrow and sadness. On that day, God says, the faces of believers will be radiant. As God says in the Qur'an (39: 71-73):
The unbelievers will be driven to Hell in companies and when they arrive there and its gates are opened its custodians will say to them, "Did Messengers from yourselves not come to you, reciting your Lord's Signs to you and warning you about meeting [Him] on this Day of yours?" They will say, "Indeed they did!" But the sentence about torment will [already] have fallen due upon the deniers of the truth. They will be told, "Enter the gates of Hell and stay there timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of the arrogant!" And those who heeded their Lord will be driven to the Garden in companies, and when they arrive there, finding its gates open, its custodians will say to them, "Peace be upon you! You have done well so enter it timelessly, for ever."
Everyone should take seriously God's constant warnings that the day of reckoning approaches, that "the Hour is coming without any doubt" (Qur'an, 22: 7). In another verse, God says:

Mankind's Reckoning has drawn very close to them, yet they heedlessly turn away. No fresh reminder comes to them from their Lord without their listening to it as if it was a game. (Qur'an, 21: 1-2)   
On that day, the good will receive a perfect recompense for their deeds, while anyone who committed evil will wish that there were a long span of time between himself and that day. Each individual will go alone into God's presence, where he will be judged with complete fairness:

We will set up the Just Balance on the Day of Rising and no self will be wronged in any way. Even if it is no more than the weight of a grain of mustard-seed, We will bring it forth. We are sufficient as a Reckoner. (Qur'an, 21: 47)

All man-made philosophies are deceptions that alienate people from a belief in the existence of God and from His service. Buddhism's superficial understanding of morality is completely contrary to human natural pattern in many aspects. To an extent, it lets people avoid the torments of conscience that comes from having no religion and so, functions as a false source of spirituality. Believers in Buddhism console themselves with the idea that they have attained spiritual mastery by inflicting pain on themselves and denying the needs of the body. But there's one basic truth of which they take no notice: that people must realize that they are servants of God. A good deed is of any value only if it is done to consciously serve God and win His pleasure. Bridling the wishes and desires of our hearts carries great value, but only if done to win God's pleasure, and to the extent that He desires. Of those who exert this kind of effort with no view to winning His pleasure, God says that "their actions have come to nothing in the world and the hereafter." (Qur'an, 2: 217)

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Buddhism's Idea of the Life of This World

Those who accept the idea of karma believe that their cycle of rebirths will never end—that they live again after every death, until they attain nirvana. And so, they assume that before them lie countless possibilities. Therefore, if someone decides to commit sin, he may think he will be able to atone for it in a later incarnation, even if his very next life is worse than his present one. An understanding founded on such an erroneous foundation cannot restrain a person from committing evil.
Attachment to this world is most people's major weakness. They believe in a perverse idea like reincarnation chiefly because they want never to give up earthly temptations. Therefore, only if someone has an accurate conception of the real nature of this worldly life can he radically alter his behavior so as to live morally.
Anyone aware of the real nature of the life of this world knows that he has been created to serve the Lord, his Protector and Helper, Who has created both him and the universe. Also, he knows that God will hold him responsible for all his thoughts, words and deeds, and that he must give an accounting to God after his death. The Lord reveals the reason for the creation of the life of this world in the Qur'an (67: 2): "He Who created death and life to test which of you is best in action. He is the Almighty, the Ever-Forgiving."
As this verse states, God has created human beings and placed them in this one life temporarily, as a test. Here, He tries us with the things that happen to us, and causes our lives to continue in order to separate believers from the unbelievers, to purify them of their sins, and to guide them to the moral values that lead to Paradise. In other words, this world is only a place of training, where we can win God's pleasure.
In the Qur'an, verse 2: 21, God reveals that He has created human beings to serve Him: "Mankind! Worship your Lord, Who created you and those before you, so that you may do your duty."
God has clearly indicated the limits that human beings may not transgress, and the kinds of behavior that will win His approval and the kinds that will not. On the basis of their behavior in the world, people will receive reward or punishment in the eternal life to come. This means that every moment we live brings us closer to either Hell or Paradise. God reminds His servants of this reality and warns them against that day in many verses of the Qur'an, including this one (59:18):
You who believe! Heed God and let each self look to what it has sent forward for Tomorrow. Heed God. God is aware of what you do.
Believers who fear God's punishment, serve only Him, obey His commands absolutely, avoid evil and act in ways that will win our Lord's pleasure. To be attached to God with strong bonds of love, fearing Him and heeding His commands and being determined to serve Him—that is the only way to gain moral superiority that a person should commit to. He would never compromise that goal, even if it conflicts with his interests. He may have a few fine moral qualities otherwise, but these will be restricted, short-lived or depend on some condition.
Buddhism also recommends good deeds, of course, but they may have no value in the sight of God. What value lies in a person's doing some good to those around him, if he is ungrateful to God, denying the existence of the One Who created him from nothing? In order for his deeds to have any value, they must be done with faith in God—with a view to gaining His approval, in awe of His glory, obedience, and with awareness of His power. For this reason, believers' superior moral character does not rest on romanticism. Their worship is continual and uninterrupted, as God has commanded in the Qur'an:

God augments those who are guided by giving them greater guidance. In your Lord's sight, right actions that are lasting are better both in reward and end result (Qur'an, 19: 76).

Everything in the heavens and earth belongs to Him, and the religion belongs to Him, firmly and for ever. So why do you fear anyone other than God? (Qur'an, 16: 52)
Wealth and sons are the embellishment of the life of this world. But, in your Lord's sight, right actions that are lasting bring a better reward and are a better basis for hope. (Qur'an, 18: 46)

People must be wary of growing attached to transient and deceptive baubles in this life, because life in this world is very short. Wealth, beauty and worldly possessions are worthless in the afterlife. The buried body will decay; time will destroy material possessions. Everyone will be brought into the presence of God to give an account. Moreover, if you ask a thirty-year-old what he has experienced up to this point, he'll say that his life has passed by very quickly. He may live another thirty or fifty years in the same way, before his life will come to an end.
In several verses, God draws our attention to the fact that the span of life in this world is short; He informs us that in the afterlife, people will openly confess this:

On the day We gather them together—when it will seem if they had tarried no more than an hour of a single day... (Qur'an, 10: 45)

On the Day the Last Hour arrives, the evildoers will swear they have not even tarried for an hour. That is the extent to which they are deceived. (Qur'an, 30: 55)   

It will be very unwise for a person to be deceived by the transient attractions of this short earthly life and to pay no regard to the afterlife. The day when people will have their account to God is a reality. In the Qur'an (10: 7-8), God commands:
As for those who do not expect to meet Us and are content with the life of this world and at rest in it, and those who are heedless of Our Signs, their shelter will be the Fire because of what they earned.
But to those who are not fooled by the life of this world and choose the endless life of the world to come, God announces good news:

If anyone desires to cultivate the hereafter, We will increase him in his cultivation. If anyone desires to cultivate this world, We will give him some of it but he will have no share in the hereafter. (Qur'an, 42: 20)

Do not direct your eyes longingly to what We have given certain of them to enjoy, the flower of the life of this world, so that We can test them by it. Your Lord's provision is better and longer lasting. (Qur'an, 20: 131)

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BUDDHISM AND MATERIALIST
WESTERN CULTURE

One reason why Buddhism has come to the world's attention is not because of its existence in the Far East—its traditional home—but thanks to propaganda spread in the West. The beginning of this propaganda goes back as far as the 19th century and attracted more interest in the second half of the 20th century when it became a fad for those looking to be more "original."
The beginning of this fad dates from the pop-culture of the 1960's when a large number of western youth and some western intellectuals turned away from traditional Christianity looking for something else and found what they were seeking in far-eastern religions. The main impetus for this search was the desire to attract interest by going against the established order. When the late George Harrison of the Beatles, who helped define the pop culture of the '60s, stated that he had become a Hindu (a pagan religion that preceded Buddhism) and later recorded his own composition, "My Sweet Lord," a song to Krishna, many Beatles' fans followed suit. John Lennon used Buddhist mantras in his song entitled "Across the Universe." Buddhist hymns, styles of dress, and artworks were very popular among hippies in the '60s and '70s.
Interestingly, the most important architects of popular cultural expressions are imposing Buddhism on Western society. In this process, Hollywood has taken the lead. It's generally accepted that Hollywood reflects the ideas of American society's liberal wing, often supporting anti-religious ideas and values contrary to Christian morality and belief. For example, most films strongly impose the theory of evolution on the minds of viewers. In the evolution-versus-creation argument, "scientific" films are almost always come down on the side of Darwinism. (Hollywood's anti-religious, pro-Darwin propaganda began with the famous film, Inherit the Wind.) And the tendency of today's films to disparage Islam is a highly evident strategy.
But though Hollywood is generally unfavorable towards revealed religions like Christianity and Islam; when it comes to Buddhism, it takes a totally opposite line, depicting this religion in a most attractive light as peaceable and humane. Films like Seven Years in Tibet, starring Brad Pitt, and Kundun, about the life of the Dalai Lama, directed by Martin Scorcese, have undertaken to popularizing Buddhism among the movie-going masses.
For spreading Buddhist propaganda, the private lives of actors and actresses are as important as the films they star in. The Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism has declared Steven Seagal, well-known for his roles in action films, to be the reincarnation of a 15th century lama (a Buddhist monk of Tibet or Mongolia)! Famous actor Richard Gere, in addition to writing books promoting Buddhism, has founded the Tibet House in New York with Richard Thurman, father of actress Uma Thurman. Other well-known Buddhists include Tina Turner, Harrison Ford, Oliver Stone, Herbie Hancock and Courtney Love.
Of course, a person's private life and personal beliefs concern no one else. People are free to choose any religion they wish. But if these individuals learned about true Islam, certainly their hearts would be warmed. But the picture presented so far brings us to an important conclusion: Buddhism is attracting interest, being adopted and promoted in the West wherever a materialist culture predominates. Materialism Western culture has become alienated from the Judeo-Christian basis of its own spirituality.
But why? To answer this question, we must first determine the basic characteristics of Western materialism. This culture's foundations were laid in the 18th century; its theoretical framework was established in the 19th and—despite the gradual erosion of the theoretical framework—it became a mass movement in the 20th. Essentially, it:
- denies the existence of God and believes the universe to be the result of chance.
- believes that living things arrived at their present state through evolution, and that Darwinism explains the phenomenon of life and the "origin" of species.
- believes that human beings are simply a higher species of animal and downplays the existence of any human spirit.
- rejects the idea of life after death, resurrection, Judgment Day and the existence of an eternal Paradise and Hell.
These assumptions of a materialist culture, every one of them false, naturally contradict all revealed religions. But significantly, all these erroneous assumptions are shared by another culture—Buddhism.


Huxley's Discovery of Buddhism

An atheist religion, Buddhism doesn't accept the existence of God, an everlasting hereafter, Paradise, or Hell. It supposes that the human spirit is no different from that of an animal and believes in continual karmic returns to the natural world. According to Buddhists, a fish could come back as a mammal in a later life, and a human could come back as a worm. This idea of the "transmigration of souls" between species has important parallels with Darwin's theory of evolution.
One Buddhist researcher has described as follows the relation between Buddhism and evolution:
Buddhism. . . is quite happy with the theory of evolution. In fact, Buddhist philosophy actually requires evolution to take place—all things are seen as being transient, constantly becoming, existing for a while, and then fading. The idea of unchanging species would not be compatible with Buddhist ontology.6
For this reason, Darwinists have felt sympathetic toward Buddhism and promoted it ever since the 19th century.
The first to express Darwinist admiration for Buddhism was Thomas H. Huxley who, after Darwin himself proposed his theory, played the next most important role in the spread of Darwinism. Huxley appeared on the scene as Darwin's most passionate supporter and became known as "Darwin's bulldog." His debates with scientists and clergy defending the idea of creation, and the passion of his writings and speeches have made him the 19th century's most famous Darwinist.
One little-known fact about Huxley was his keen interest in Buddhism. Even while struggling with representatives of revealed religions like Judaism and Christianity, he regarded Buddhism as appropriate to the kind of secular civilization that he wanted to see established in the West. This is elaborated in the Philosophy East and West article, "Buddhism in Huxley's Evolution and Ethics," which includes the following description of Buddhism from Huxley's book of that name:
[Buddhism is] a system which knows no God in the Western sense; which denies a soul to man; which counts the belief in immortality a blunder and hope of it a sin; which refuses any efficacy to prayer and sacrifice; which bids men look to nothing but their own effortsfor salvation . . . . yet [it] spread over a considerable moiety of the Old World with marvelous rapidity and is still, with whatever base admixture of foreign superstitions, the dominant creed of a large fraction of mankind.7
The only reason for Huxley's admiration of Buddhism is that it—like Huxley and other Darwinists—did not believe in God.
According to Vijitha Rajapakse, a professor at Hawaii University and the author of "Buddhism in Huxley's Evolution and Ethics," Huxley saw a parallel between Buddhism and the atheistic pagan ideas of ancient Greece. This contributed to his admiration:
Huxley's evident tendency to link Buddhist thought with Western ideas, which comes to the fore strikingly in his comments on the concept of substance, was further exemplified at other levels of his discussion as well. He found the nontheistic stance taken by the early Buddhists to be analogous to the outlook of Heracleitus and referred, in addition, to "many parallelisms of Stoicism and Buddhism.". . .8
Rajapakse notes that some other 18th and 19th century atheists or agnostics were also great admirers of Buddhism. Parallels between Buddhism and the materialist Western philosophy of the time form part of the thought of David Hume, an 18th century Scottish philosopher and atheist with an antipathy towards religion. Rajapakse writes, "Interestingly enough, the parallelisms that exist between Buddhist and Humean standpoints on the question of a substantial soul were duly noted by certain early commentators on Buddhism" and continues:
Mrs. Rhys Davids [a pioneer translator of early Buddhist texts from Paali into English], for example, remarked that "with regard to the belief in an indwelling spirit or ego, permanent, unchanging, unsuffering, Buddhism took the standpoint two thousand, four hundred years ago of our own Hume of two centuries ago."9
As Rajapakse maintains in his article, Buddhism intrigued many thinkers in Victorian England because they found it in harmony with the ascendant philosophies of the 19th century—atheism and Darwinism. Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous German philosopher, looked with favor on Buddhism for the same reason.

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Nietzsche's Sympathy for Buddhism

Nietzsche, one of the 19th century's most avid atheist thinkers, nurtured a passionate hatred for Christianity and promoted in its stead a pagan culture and morality. His views helped form fascism in the 20th century, especially Nazism. Nietzsche battled with Christianity for espousing the virtues of compassion, mercy, humility and trust in God. Therefore, in fact, he was also against the moral principles of Islam and genuine Judaism. He hated revealed religions not only because of their moral principles, but mainly because of his fanatic atheism. In his article on Nietzsche, American researcher Jason DeBoer writes that "atheism is a crucial part of Nietzsche's thought," adding that:
His is not an unbiased critique: Nietzsche burns with hatred toward Christianity, and his atheistic writings are extremely vitriolic.10
As we can imagine, Nietzsche directed his hatred at revealed religions only, not at pagan ones. On the contrary, as DeBoer writes:
. . . Nietzsche, although one of the fiercest atheists in history, was in fact not entirely anti-religious . . . [He] respected and admired many of the aspects of other religions, including paganism and even Buddhism.11
In his review of Robert G. Morrison's book Nietzche and Buddhism:A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities, English academic David R. Loy says the following on this matter:
Comparing Nietzsche with Buddhism has become something of a cottage industry, and for good reason: there seems to be a deep resonance between them. Morrison points out that they share many common features: both emphasise the centrality of humans in a godless cosmos and neither looks to any external being or power for their respective solutions to the problem of existence . . . Both understand [a] human being as an ever-changing flux of multiple psychophysical forces, and within this flux there is no autonomous or unchanging subject ('ego', 'soul').12
The sources of these erroneous ideas that Nietzsche shared with Buddhism were certainly nothing more than ignorance and arrogance. Anyone who looks at the universe and the world of nature with conscious intelligence can see clear proofs of God's existence. This has been supported by modern, scientific discoveries: the Big Bang theory and the Anthropic Principle (the principle that every detail in the universe has been carefully arranged to make human life possible) have crushed the idea of a godless universe as proposed by Nietzsche and other atheists. Science has clear proofs that the universe was created and ordered in an extraordinary balance. These proofs show the invalidity of Darwin's theory of evolution, but do support the existence of an intelligent design and prove the truth of creation. The results of scientific and sociological discoveries have also discredited the ideas of 19th century thinkers like Marx, Freud, and Durkheim. (For more information, please refer to Harun Yahya's article "A Turning Point in History: The Fall of Atheism" at www.harunyahya.com/70the_fall_of_atheism _scie34.php)


Buddhism: False Spirituality to a Materialist Culture

Ironically, this scientific testimony against atheism is closely related to why Buddhism is spreading in the Western world. Architects of atheism and materialist culture see that their theory is collapsing. To prevent the rapidly growing movement towards revealed religions, they counter it by promoting pagan faiths such as Buddhism. In other words, Buddhism—and other Far Eastern religions like it—are spiritual reinforcements of materialism.
But why should materialist Western culture need any such reinforcement? English writers Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln have examined the development (and degeneration) of ideas in the Western world over the past 2,000 years. In the 20th century, they explain, the Western world has fallen into a "crisis of meaning." In other words, the way of life imposed on Western societies by materialist philosophy has stripped people's lives of meaning by cutting them off from their belief in God's existence and from worship of Him. These three authors put it this way:
Life became increasingly bereft of meaning, devoid of significance — a wholly random phenomenon, lived for no particular purpose.13
Adding to this crisis of meaning, the collapse of materialist theories on a scientific level has opened the way for a new return to revealed religions, especially Islam. For this reason, the monotheistic faiths are growing in their numbers of adherents; the number of those who believe and practice their religion is increasing; and religious concepts and values are assuming much more important places in social life.
Buddhism and similar pagan beliefs are eager to curtail this movement by offering, to those confused by the crisis of meaning brought on by the materialist culture, a false route to salvation. Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and versions of it like the Hare Krishna sect, Wicca and other New Age trends that bring together various pagan teachings, UFO religions that busy themselves with so-called holy messages believed to have come from space—these are all false teachings embraced by those who do not want to break with atheist and materialist dogmas, while eagerly search for spirituality at the same time. Besides, many who become Buddhists are largely influenced by a desire to unwittingly and blindly imitate something they do not understand, simply to attract attention and pretent that they are, indeed, aware and sophisticated.
To understand why these doctrines are unfounded, we need only pass them through the sieve of logic. We have already examined the concept of karma, the foundation of several Far Eastern religions, and shown it to have no rational basis. (For a more detailed discussion, see Harun Yahya's Islam and Karma, Ta Ha Publishers, London, 2003) These religions do not believe in the existence of God, nor in an ultimate place of divine judgment for mankind. How, then, can they believe that every person will receive a reward for what he has done—in a subsequent life? Who will determine this? Those who revere "Extraterrestrials" also believe in similar nonsense. How can a person build a philosophy of life on UFOs, whose reality is quite debatable? Even if beings from outer space did exist, they too would, necessarily, have to have been created. But what is the guarantee that they could show humans the true path?
Those caught up in such superstitious ideas should think about these words of God from the Qur'an (56: 57): "We created you, so why do you not confirm the truth?" They should follow His way, as He has commanded:

This is My Path, and it is straight, so follow it. Do not follow other ways, or you will become cut off from His Way. That is what He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you may do your duty. (Qur'an, 6: 153)


:))dasar sirik 

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Ini baru baca di internet, dan sanggahannya yg indah oleh Saudara Kelana (apakah orang yg sama?)

http://mahardhikazifana.com/religion-philosophy-agama-filsafat/budha-seorang-nabiyullah.html
http://forum.upi.edu/v3/index.php/topic,6105.0.html

   
Budha Seorang Nabiyullah(?)

Teman, pernahkah anda memperhatikan ajaran agama Budha? Agama Budha memiliki ajaran moral yang sangat luar biasa tingginya. Mungkinkah ajaran-ajaran moral yang tinggi itu seratus persen buatan manusia? Zaman kehidupan Budha berada pada kisaran abad ke-5 SM. Manusia pada zaman itu hidup dalam kebodohan dan kejahilan luar biasa. Jadi sangat kecil kemungkinan bahwa ajaran Budha adalah seratus persen buatan manusia. Kemungkinan yang lebih besar adalah bahwa ajaran Budha datang sebagai wahyu dari Allah kepada Budha untuk diwartakan kepada kaumnya.

Ada banyak alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

"Para Utusan (Nabi & Rasul), mereka mengemban kabar baik dan memberi peringatan, agar manusia tak mempunyai alasan untuk menentang Allah setelah (datangnya) para Utusan. Dan Allah itu Maha-perkasa, Maha-bijaksana" (Q.S. 4:165).

Seorang Rasul biasanya diutus untuk suatu kaum dengan tujuan yang digambarkan dalam ayat di atas. Mengemban kabar baik berarti menunjukan hakekat-hakekat kebenaran dalam konsep Ketuhanan yang jelas serta membawa nubuat-nubuat masa depan yang baik. Memberi peringatan berarti meluruskan 'penyimpangan' –baik jasmaniah maupun ruhiyah– masyarakat.

Dari uraian tersebut, maka bisa diperoleh sekurangnya 6 alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

1. Sangat sedikit sekali kisah-kisah Budha yang sanad-nya dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. Semua sanad tentang Budha tak ada yang sampai langsung kepada Budha. Jadi pendakwaan bahwa Budha adalah Tuhan atau bahwa ia seorang pemakan daging babi sangat diragukan. Beberapa ahli seperti Vedhayarti, E.W. Wallis Budge, dan Joseph Edkins, pernah membahas masalah ini secara khusus dalam buku-buku mereka.

2. Budha berdakwah di tengah suatu kaum yang jahil, seperti halnya Muhammad Saw berdakwah di tengah kaum Quraisy. Masyarakat Asia Selatan di masa Budha hidup adalah penyembah banyak tuhan (dewa) yang membagi masyarakat ke dalam kelas-kelas berdasarkan keturunan (kasta). Ajaran Budha menghapuskan semua itu. Inti ajaran yang berpusat kepada cinta, dharma, dan bakti merupakan sebuah perbaikan fisik dan psikis bagi masyarakat Asia Selatan yang sakit ketika itu.

3. Budha 'mengalami pencerahan' (Maitreya) saat menyepi di bawah pohon Kalpataru, sama halnya dengan Muhammad Saw. yang memperoleh 'pencerahan' saat menyepi di sebuah gua di Bukit Hira. Asumsi yang paling memungkinkan adalah Malaikat Jibril as. telah mendatangi Budha di lembah Bodhisatva untuk memberikan wahyu tentang hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya.

4. Budha adalah seorang pangeran yang meninggalkan segala kemewahan istana untuk mengenakan pakaian kasar dan berkelana demi mencari hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya. Bandingkan ini dengan Muhammad yang rela kehilangan posisi kebangsawanan Quraisy demi menyiarkan dakwah Islam. Sejarah mengisahkan bahwa para Nabi biasa diuji dengan terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarga atau kaumnya. Nabi Yusuf as terusir ke Mesir. Nabi Musa as terusir dari Mesir. Nabi Ayyub as terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarganya setelah menderita penyakit kulit. Nabi Daud as diusir oleh anaknya hingga mengungsi ke bukit Zion. Nabi Ibrahim as. pun terusir dari Babilonia.

5. Ada Hadits yang diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Abbas ra. bahwa ada seorang nabi yang dilahirkan sebagai anak raja. Allah mewahyukan kepadanya: "Aku akan mematikan engkau segera, karena itu serahkanlah kerajaan itu kepada orang lain sebagai pewarismu, dia harus menyembah Tuhan pada waktu malam dan menjalani puasa sepanjang hari. Dia tidak boleh marah selagi mengadili orang". Para mufassir seperti Razi dan Mujahid menyebut bahwa nabi yang dimaksud adalah Dzulkifli as. Kisah Dzulkifli as. ini benar-benar sama dengan jalan hidup Budha. Bisa jadi Dzulkifli as. yang banyak disebut dalam Al Quran adalah Sidharta Gautama.

Tambahan, Al Quran terbiasa menyebut nama para nabi tidak dengan nama aslinya. Misalnya Isa as. Secara linguistik, tidak mungkin bernama 'Isa' karena 'Isa' adalah nama Arab. Isa as. menceramahi kaumnya dengan bahasa Aramaik, sehingga kemungkinan nama aslinya adalah 'Essho' atau Esau (bahasa Ibrani).

"Dan Ismail dan Idris dan Dhul-Kifli; semua itu orang yang sabar" (Q.S. 21:85).

6. Tuhan menyebut seorang nabi bernama Dzulkifli yang jelas bukan dari ras Israil atau Arab. Kisah Dzulkifli sebagaimana diberikan oleh Ibnu Abbas tidak ada padanannya dalam tradisi-tradisi Yahudi dan Kristiani dan kitab-kitab suci mereka. Mujahid memang mengira bahwa Dzulkifli adalah nama lain dari Ilyas as. dan Abu-Musa Asy'ari berkata bahwa Dzulkifli bukanlah seorang nabi. Tetapi Hasan ra. mengatakan kepada kita bahwa dia adalah seorang nabi karena namanya disebut di dalam surat 'Para Nabi' (Al-Anbiyya). Nama Dzul-Kifli disebut bersama-sama dengan Ismail dan Idris yang diakui sebagai nabi. Karena itu, dia seorang nabi juga.

7. Budha membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. seperti halnya para Nabi lain sebelum Muhammad. Budha memang jelas tidak menyebut nama 'Muhammad', seperti halnya Isa as. menyebut Muhammad dengan 'Paraclete' dan Musa as. menyebut Muhammad sebagai 'seorang ksatria dari Pegunungan Sela Paran (Mekkah)'. ia menyebut Muhammad dengan nama 'Maitreya'. Maitreya berarti cahaya. Seperti kita ketahui, Muhammad Saw dilambangkan sebagai cahaya semesta. Jadi Muhammad Saw adalah Maitreya yang dinantikan dalam ajaran Budha.

"Maitreya akan menjadi cahaya yang terakhir dan sempurna" ("Saddharam Pundrik" bab 94).

"Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya" ("Sacred Books of the East", jilid 49).

"Ibunda Maitreya kelak seorang bangsawan dan rupawan. Dia adalah puteranya yang pertama" (Maha Vastu I:197, Lalit Vistar 25:5, 23:10).

Selain itu, masih banyak alasan lain mengapa Buddha adalah Dzulkifli yang diceritakan di dalam Al Quran. Dia beriman kepada kitab(wahyu)-nya sendiri dan meramalkan datangnya Muhammad (Maitreya Buddha) yang mirip dirinya. Karena itu, Allah menyebutnya 'Dzul-kifli' (penerima pahala ganda).

"Dan (Kami telah mengutus) para Utusan, yang sebelumnya telah Kami kisahkan kepada engkau, dan para Utusan yang tak Kami kisahkan kepada engkau".
(Q.S. 4:164)

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7. Budha membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. seperti halnya para Nabi lain sebelum Muhammad. Budha memang jelas tidak menyebut nama 'Muhammad', seperti halnya Isa as. menyebut Muhammad dengan 'Paraclete' dan Musa as. menyebut Muhammad sebagai 'seorang ksatria dari Pegunungan Sela Paran (Mekkah)'. ia menyebut Muhammad dengan nama 'Maitreya'. Maitreya berarti cahaya. Seperti kita ketahui, Muhammad Saw dilambangkan sebagai cahaya semesta. Jadi Muhammad Saw adalah Maitreya yang dinantikan dalam ajaran Budha.

"Maitreya akan menjadi cahaya yang terakhir dan sempurna" ("Saddharam Pundrik" bab 94).

"Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya" ("Sacred Books of the East", jilid 49).

Maitreya artinya penuh cinta kasih...Mohammed artinya Moha(tidak tahu) + media(perantara)

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Reply #1 by Kelana

Salam,
Saya akan meluruskan informasi yang tidak tepat agar tidak menjadi sebuah fitnah belaka. Mari kita bahas.

Quote from: Mahardhika Zifana on 15 January 2009, 20:36:39
Teman, pernahkah anda memperhatikan ajaran agama Budha? Agama Budha memiliki ajaran moral yang sangat luar biasa tingginya. Mungkinkah ajaran-ajaran moral yang tinggi itu seratus persen buatan manusia? Zaman kehidupan Budha berada pada kisaran abad ke-5 SM. Manusia pada zaman itu hidup dalam kebodohan dan kejahilan luar biasa. Jadi sangat kecil kemungkinan bahwa ajaran Budha adalah seratus persen buatan manusia. Kemungkinan yang lebih besar adalah bahwa ajaran Budha datang sebagai wahyu dari Allah kepada Budha untuk diwartakan kepada kaumnya.

Pertama. Agama Buddha (yang benar menggunakan 2 huruf "b") bukanlah agama wahyu. Anggapan bahwa agama Buddha adalah agama wahyu merupakan wujud pikiran sempit yang menganggap bahwa manusia hanyalah boneka yang tidak bisa memaksimalkan budi pekertinya sampai setinggi-tingginya. Ajaran Buddha adalah wujud dari pemahaman TANPA BIAS dari manusia terhadap fenomena kehidupan. Dengan pemahaman yang mendalam (INSIGHT) tanpa bias bisa melihat permasalah kehidupan dengan jernih dan menemukan solusinya, termasuk di dalamnya mengenai kemoralan. Inilah mengapa ajaran Buddha begitu tinggi.

Kedua. Alangkah naifnya menggunakan alasan bahwa pada masa abad ke-5 SM merupakan masa kebodohan dan kejahilan dan menggeneralisasikan bahwa semua manusia pada masa itu adalah bodoh dan jahat sehingga muncul wahyu. Pada masa yang sama di benua lain muncul ahli-ahli filsafat ternama seperti Socrates yang jelas bukan berdasarkan wahyu. Tidak ada bukti untuk turunnya wahyu dan dikaitkan pada masa jahiliah.

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Ada banyak alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

"Para Utusan (Nabi & Rasul), mereka mengemban kabar baik dan memberi peringatan, agar manusia tak mempunyai alasan untuk menentang Allah setelah (datangnya) para Utusan. Dan Allah itu Maha-perkasa, Maha-bijaksana" (Q.S. 4:165).

Seorang Rasul biasanya diutus untuk suatu kaum dengan tujuan yang digambarkan dalam ayat di atas. Mengemban kabar baik berarti menunjukan hakekat-hakekat kebenaran dalam konsep Ketuhanan yang jelas serta membawa nubuat-nubuat masa depan yang baik. Memberi peringatan berarti meluruskan 'penyimpangan' –baik jasmaniah maupun ruhiyah– masyarakat.

Bukankah lebih sah dan meyakinkan jika yang ditampilkan adalah justru literatur dari agama Buddha itu sendiri dan bukan justru klaiman dari kitab agama lain yang tidak ada kaitannya?

Dalam Kitab Suci Tipitaka,Ayacana Sutta (Samyutta Nikaya 6.1), setelah Gotama mencapai pencerahan Sempurna, Beliau mengatakan: "Dhamma yang telah Ku-capai (attain, reach) ini sangatlah dalam....."

Di sini jelas bahwa Dhamma (bahasa Pali) atau Dharma (bahasa Sanskerta) atau Kebenaran atau sekarang dikenal dengan ajaran Buddha, bukanlah wahyu yang diberikan dari langit, tapi sesuatu yang DICAPAI atau DIRAIH, diperjuangkan.

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Reply #2 by Kelana

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Dari uraian tersebut, maka bisa diperoleh sekurangnya 6 alasan mengapa Budha pantas 'dicurigai' sebagai Nabiyullah.

1. Sangat sedikit sekali kisah-kisah Budha yang sanad-nya dapat dipertanggungjawabkan. Semua sanad tentang Budha tak ada yang sampai langsung kepada Budha. Jadi pendakwaan bahwa Budha adalah Tuhan atau bahwa ia seorang pemakan daging babi sangat diragukan. Beberapa ahli seperti Vedhayarti, E.W. Wallis Budge, dan Joseph Edkins, pernah membahas masalah ini secara khusus dalam buku-buku mereka.

Argumen ini menandakan miskinnya Penulis dalam pengetahuan mengenai agama Buddha. Pertama, umat Buddha sekalipun tidak pernah menganggap Buddha sebagai Tuhan. Meskipun bukan Tuhan, bukan berarti langsung merupakan seorang nabi. Kedua. Apa yang dimakan oleh Buddha apakah babi atau bukan, tidak ada kaitannya dengan menjadi seorang nabi. Sekarang banyak orang yang bervegetarian tidak makan babi, apakah ia juga seorang nabi? Pada masa kehidupan Buddha, di India, juga hidup seorang pemimpin agama yang juga cukup ternama yaitu Mahavira, penemu agama Jain, dan ia seorang vegetarian. Apakah ia juga seorang nabi? Sangatlah tidak masuk diakal tuhan mengutus 2 nabi pada masa yang sama, daerah yang sama tetapi ajaran yang berbeda. Jadi argumen dari penulis ini sangat absurd.

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2. Budha berdakwah di tengah suatu kaum yang jahil, seperti halnya Muhammad Saw berdakwah di tengah kaum Quraisy. Masyarakat Asia Selatan di masa Budha hidup adalah penyembah banyak tuhan (dewa) yang membagi masyarakat ke dalam kelas-kelas berdasarkan keturunan (kasta). Ajaran Budha menghapuskan semua itu. Inti ajaran yang berpusat kepada cinta, dharma, dan bakti merupakan sebuah perbaikan fisik dan psikis bagi masyarakat Asia Selatan yang sakit ketika itu.

Memang benar bahwa Buddha berpusat kepada cinta, dharma, dan bakti merupakan sebuah perbaikan fisik dan psikis bagi masyarakat Asia Selatan yang sakit ketika itu. Buddha juga menolak sistem kasta. Namun perlu dicatat bahwa Buddha tidak menolak keberadaan dewa, tetapi dewa diposisikan sebagai layaknya makhluk yang bisa mati meskipun usia mereka panjang. Dan juga perlu dicatat bahwa Buddha menolak keberadaan isvara (bhs Sanskerta) atau issara (bhs Pali) atau bahasa Indonesianya adalah Penguasa Semesta Alam, Bapak Semua Makhluk, The Creator, Tuhan Personal, yang biasa dianut oleh kaum monotheis. Meskipun demikian agama Buddha BUKAN ATHEIS karena masih mengakui keberadaan para dewa dan memiliki nilai-nilai kemoralan yang tinggi, sehingga kini agama Buddha digolongkan sebagai agama NON-Theis.
Alangkah kontranya jika ajaran yang bersifat NON-THEIS tapi diklaim sebagai wahyu. Jadi argumen kedua dari penulis ini sangat absurd.

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3. Budha 'mengalami pencerahan' (Maitreya) saat menyepi di bawah pohon Kalpataru, sama halnya dengan Muhammad Saw. yang memperoleh 'pencerahan' saat menyepi di sebuah gua di Bukit Hira. Asumsi yang paling memungkinkan adalah Malaikat Jibril as. telah mendatangi Budha di lembah Bodhisatva untuk memberikan wahyu tentang hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya.

Ini bukti kedua bahwa Penulis kurang memahami agama Buddha.
Buddha mengalami Pencerahan?? Tepatnya adalah Petapa Gotama mengalami Pencerahan menjadi Buddha. Pencerahan dalam bahasa Sanskerta atau Pali adalah 'Bodhi' bukan 'Maitreya'. Maitreya sendiri berasal dari kata Maitri (bhs Sanskerta) yang berarti Cinta Kasih. Buddha mencapai Pencerahan di Hutan Gaya (sekarang disebut Bodh Gaya, di wilayah Bihar, India), bukan lembah Bodhisattva. Dan dalam perjuanganNya mencapai Pencerahan Sempurna tidak ada satupun makhluk atau siapapun yang memberikan wahyu kepada Petapa Gotama. Tidak ada dalam literatur manapun yang mengatakan adanya wahyu. Jadi ini adalah asumsi yang tidak mendasar sama sekali, hanya rekayasa yang dipaksakan.

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4. Budha adalah seorang pangeran yang meninggalkan segala kemewahan istana untuk mengenakan pakaian kasar dan berkelana demi mencari hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya. Bandingkan ini dengan Muhammad yang rela kehilangan posisi kebangsawanan Quraisy demi menyiarkan dakwah Islam. Sejarah mengisahkan bahwa para Nabi biasa diuji dengan terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarga atau kaumnya. Nabi Yusuf as terusir ke Mesir. Nabi Musa as terusir dari Mesir. Nabi Ayyub as terusir dari tengah-tengah keluarganya setelah menderita penyakit kulit. Nabi Daud as diusir oleh anaknya hingga mengungsi ke bukit Zion. Nabi Ibrahim as. pun terusir dari Babilonia.

Pertama. Pangeran Siddhattha TIDAK diusir dari keluargaNya. Ia meninggalkan segala kemewahan istana untuk mengenakan pakaian kasar dan berkelana demi mencari hakekat kehidupan yang sesungguhnya. Jadi berbeda.

Kedua. Tidak ada hubungannya antara diusir atau tidak dengan menjadi seorang nabi. Apakah semua orang yang diusir dari keluarganya dan ditolak berarti menjadi nabi? Tidak. Banyak orang yang diusir keluarganya karena ia berbuat jahat bahkan ada yang diusir karena orang itu mengidap penyakit menular.  Jadi argumen ini juga absurd.

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Reply #3 by Kelana

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5. Ada Hadits yang diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Abbas ra. bahwa ada seorang nabi yang dilahirkan sebagai anak raja. Allah mewahyukan kepadanya: "Aku akan mematikan engkau segera, karena itu serahkanlah kerajaan itu kepada orang lain sebagai pewarismu, dia harus menyembah Tuhan pada waktu malam dan menjalani puasa sepanjang hari. Dia tidak boleh marah selagi mengadili orang". Para mufassir seperti Razi dan Mujahid menyebut bahwa nabi yang dimaksud adalah Dzulkifli as. Kisah Dzulkifli as. ini benar-benar sama dengan jalan hidup Budha. Bisa jadi Dzulkifli as. yang banyak disebut dalam Al Quran adalah Sidharta Gautama.

Tambahan, Al Quran terbiasa menyebut nama para nabi tidak dengan nama aslinya. Misalnya Isa as. Secara linguistik, tidak mungkin bernama 'Isa' karena 'Isa' adalah nama Arab. Isa as. menceramahi kaumnya dengan bahasa Aramaik, sehingga kemungkinan nama aslinya adalah 'Essho' atau Esau (bahasa Ibrani).

"Dan Ismail dan Idris dan Dhul-Kifli; semua itu orang yang sabar" (Q.S. 21:85).

Al Qur'an sedikit sekali mengisahkan riwayat nabi Dzulkifli dan kepada siapa ia diutus. Mari kita menyimak kisahnya dari:
http://rasulullahsaw.atwiki.com/page/NABI%20DZULKIFLI%20A.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezekiel

Dalam kisah tersebut jelas Dzulkifli (Basyar) atau Ezekiel (bahasa Ibrani) putra Nabi Ayyub AS yang berdomisili di Timur Tengah, berbeda dengan Pangeran Siddhattha (calon Buddha) yang lahir di India Utara. Dzulkifli bukan keturunan langsung dari raja yang bertahta tetapi baru diangkat setelah ada pemilihan. Berbeda dengan Pangeran Siddhattha yang merupakan keturunan langsung Raja Suddhodana.

Bahkan kontroversi kata "dzu" pun tidak bisa membuktikan kebenarannya bahwa "dzu" mengacu pada Kapilavatthu di India.

Tempat kelahiran serta nama orang tuanya saja sudah berbeda, jadi tidaklah mungkin nabi Dzulkifli adalah Buddha Gotama.

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6. Tuhan menyebut seorang nabi bernama Dzulkifli yang jelas bukan dari ras Israil atau Arab. Kisah Dzulkifli sebagaimana diberikan oleh Ibnu Abbas tidak ada padanannya dalam tradisi-tradisi Yahudi dan Kristiani dan kitab-kitab suci mereka. Mujahid memang mengira bahwa Dzulkifli adalah nama lain dari Ilyas as. dan Abu-Musa Asy'ari berkata bahwa Dzulkifli bukanlah seorang nabi. Tetapi Hasan ra. mengatakan kepada kita bahwa dia adalah seorang nabi karena namanya disebut di dalam surat 'Para Nabi' (Al-Anbiyya). Nama Dzul-Kifli disebut bersama-sama dengan Ismail dan Idris yang diakui sebagai nabi. Karena itu, dia seorang nabi juga.

Mengenai hal ini sudah disampaikan di atas. Nama Dzulkifli (Hizqil) disebut juga Basyar atau Ezekiel dalam bahasa Ibrani. Jadi jelas Dzulkifli berasal dari Timur Tengah, bukan dari India.

Meskipun Dzulkifli seorang nabi, bukan berarti Dzulkifli adalah Buddha Gotama, karena sudah disampaikan dalam penjelasan di atas mengenai domisili dan nama orang tua yang berbeda antara dua tokoh.

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Reply #4 by Kelana

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7. Budha membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. seperti halnya para Nabi lain sebelum Muhammad. Budha memang jelas tidak menyebut nama 'Muhammad', seperti halnya Isa as. menyebut Muhammad dengan 'Paraclete' dan Musa as. menyebut Muhammad sebagai 'seorang ksatria dari Pegunungan Sela Paran (Mekkah)'. ia menyebut Muhammad dengan nama 'Maitreya'. Maitreya berarti cahaya. Seperti kita ketahui, Muhammad Saw dilambangkan sebagai cahaya semesta. Jadi Muhammad Saw adalah Maitreya yang dinantikan dalam ajaran Budha.

"Maitreya akan menjadi cahaya yang terakhir dan sempurna" ("Saddharam Pundrik" bab 94).

"Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya" ("Sacred Books of the East", jilid 49).

"Ibunda Maitreya kelak seorang bangsawan dan rupawan. Dia adalah puteranya yang pertama" (Maha Vastu I:197, Lalit Vistar 25:5, 23:10).

Selain itu, masih banyak alasan lain mengapa Buddha adalah Dzulkifli yang diceritakan di dalam Al Quran. Dia beriman kepada kitab(wahyu)-nya sendiri dan meramalkan datangnya Muhammad (Maitreya Buddha) yang mirip dirinya. Karena itu, Allah menyebutnya 'Dzul-kifli' (penerima pahala ganda).

"Dan (Kami telah mengutus) para Utusan, yang sebelumnya telah Kami kisahkan kepada engkau, dan para Utusan yang tak Kami kisahkan kepada engkau".
(Q.S. 4:164).

Buddha TIDAK PERNAH membawa kabar nubuat kedatangan Muhammad Saw. Usaha penyamaan antara Maitreya dengan Muhammad Saw adalah usaha propaganda agar umat Budddha beralih agama. Dan artikel ini selalu di copy-paste dari situs yang satu ke situs yang lain tanpa ada konfirmasi terhadap sumber-sumber yang saih yaitu kitab suci Tipitaka.

Di sini nampaknya Penulis mulai linglung sehingga ia menghubungkan nubuat Buddha terhadap Maitreya dengan Dzulkifli. Lalu apa hubungannya nubuat Buddha mengenai Maitreya dengan Dzulkifli ? Apakah Dzulkifli juga membawa kabar nubuat mengenai Muhammad? Jika Dzulkifli adalah Buddha maka Dzulkifli membawa kabar nubuat akan Muhammad, tetapi kenyataaanya tidak ada kisah mengenai hal itu.

Pertama. Menurut Kitab Suci Tipitaka, Cakkavattisihanada Sutta (Digha Nikaya 26) Maitreya (bhs Sanskerta) atau Metteyya (bhs Pali)  akan dilahirkan di Jambudvipa atau India pada sekitar ratusan juta tahun yang akan datang. Sedangkan Muhammad lahir di Mekkah pada sekitar tahun 570 masehi. Jelas tahun dan wilayah yang berbeda.

Kedua. Maitreya berasal dari bahasa Sanskerta yang berarti dari kata 'Maitri' yang berarti Cinta Kasih. Jadi sangatlah salah jika Maitreya berarti cahaya. Sehingga tidaklah sama dengan cahaya semesta yang dikaitkan dengan sebutan untuk Muhammad. Dalam suatu perbandiangan hendaknya yang diperbandingkan memiliki tingkat yang sama, misalnya nama dengan nama, julukan dengan julukan, tempat dengan tempat. Penulis nampaknya tidak memahami mengenai perbandingan.

Ketiga. Julukan sebagai cahaya tidak hanya dilabelkan pada Maitreya tetapi juga Yesus, Khrisna dan tokoh-tokoh agama lainnya. Jadi terlalu naif jika julukan cahaya dikaitkan dengan Maitreya sebagai Muhammad saja.

Keempat. Penulis mengacu pada literatur yang salah dan tidak jelas. Penulis menulis: Saddharam Pundrik Bab 94. Kita hanya akan menemukan sedikit keterangan dalam pencarian dengan Google dan itu pun akan mengacu pada artikel yang sama yang berasal dari copy paste tanpa konfirmasi. Judul aslinya adalah Saddharmapundarika Sutra merupakan salah satu literatur Buddhis ternama namun tidak semua tradisi/mazab mengakuinya karena baru muncul abad pertama masehi. Selain itu literatur ini hanya ada 27 BAB, jadi tidak ada BAB 94. Bagaimana Penulis bisa memberikan bukti yang tidak jelas seperti ini? Jadi bisa dipastikan argumen mengenai Maitreya dengan simbolis cahaya terakhir juga merupakan hal yang absurd.

Kelima. Penulis tidak menggunakan literatur yang saih. Sacred Books of the East jelas merupakan buku kompilasi yang bahkan mungkin Penulis (artikel Budha Seorang Nabiyullah) sendiri belum melihatnya. Buku ini merupakan kumpulan literatur-literatur agama dari Hindu, Jain sampai Buddha berjumlah 50 volume karya terjemahan beberapa sarjana . Disusun oleh Max Muller. Penulis tidak menjelaskan pada bagian mana kalimat "Maitreya akan menjadi nabi yang menghapus beberapa syariat dan doktrin dari agama kuno mengingat keadaan sekitarnya", berada.

Beruntunglah kita berada di era internet. Kita bisa melihat Sacred Books of the East (SBE)di:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/sbe/ . Ternyata isi  SBE tidaklah murni literatur dari kitab suci suatu agama tetapi ada komentar-komentar dari si penerjemah yang notabene memiliki pemikiran monotheis dengan konsep kenabian, sehingga sangat kuat indikasinya bahwa kalimat tersebut merupakan komentar si penerjemah, dan sudah pasti kita tidak akan menemukannya di kitab suci Buddhis karena tidak ditemukan istilah nabi ataupun istilah lain yang mengacu pada kenabian. Jadi, lagi-lagi pengajuan literatur ini tidaklah mendasar.

Keenam. Lagi-lagi pengajuan literatur yang tidak jelas. Maha Vastu I:197, Lalit Vistar 25:5, 23:10.  Seharusnya  Mahavastu  dan Lalitavistara, yang mayoritas mengenai kelahiran Buddha Gotama. Meskipun ada mengenai Maitreya namun berbeda dengan kehidupan Muhammad yang sebagai yatim piatu dan penuh dengan peperangan.

Ketujuh. Tidak ada hubungannya antara arti nama 'Dzul-kifli' (penerima pahala ganda) dengan Buddha karena arti Buddha sendiri berarti Yang Sadar BUKAN penerima pahala ganda.


KESIMPULAN:
Semua sudah disampaikan perbedaan baik dari istilah-istilah, nama, lokasi, waktu, latar belakang keluarga, dan dapat disimpulkan bahwa Buddha BUKAN-lah Dzulkifli dan Maitreya BUKAN-lah Muhammad. Pengajuan literatur yang tidak jelas membuktikan adanya indikasi propaganda penipuan. Dan dengan sanggahan ini, semoga pembaca tidak lagi mempercayai tulisan-tulisan yang tidak dapat dipertanggungjawabkan kebenarannya dan tidak secara gegabah mengkopi tanpa melakukan konfirmasi dan uji materi.

Terima Kasih.

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