Ancient Shaivism and Islam
This is a blog post that is still being composed but below is a list of things that I have so far discovered to be identical between ancient Saivism and Islam.
- Reverse circumambulation
- way of clothing at Hajj
- shaving of head
- direction of prayer
- burial
- the black stone on a silver bowl like object that clearly is a variation of a siva linga on a panavatta
- moon as a symbol
- 3 times -- for truth
- 4 marriages allowed -- only for Brahmins
- 7 heavens and 7 hells — Brahmanda Purana
- The passion of Shiva worship (63 nayanaars vs 12 alvars)... Asura bhakti same to same with Islam's passion
- quran recitation vs sama veda recitation
- total 72 denominations
- no alcohol rule
- 30 yrs of age in heaven of devatas and of muslims
- not doing jumma namaz 3 times is considered you being Kafir, not doing namaz even once is considered impure or something like that. Same with Brahmins, 3 times sandhyavandan is non-negotiable. Not doing even once for that time of the day you are considered a shudra. And not doing sandhyavandan for 3 generations you are out of Brahminhood. and there are other rules.
- no music rules
- beard rules for muslims, pilaka rules for Brahmins
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