Prophet Mohammed in Hindu Scriptures??????!!!!!

One comes across many Islamic sites these days claiming that Prophet Mohammed is prophesied in Bhavishya Purana and the Kalki, the tenth Avatara of Vishnu Hindus are eagerly waiting to come at the end of Kali Yuga has already come 1400 years ago in the form of Prophet Mohammed and they are yet to realize it.

It is obvious that this is 24 carat crap. No proofs are actually required. However for person who has an element of doubt or is curious to know, I am presenting some points against these theories:

1. Though the name of the Purana is Bhavishya purana, it is actually a misnormer. The purana mostly deals with the Surya and Chandra dynasties (ie., Ramayana and Mahabharata). It also deals with greatness of the dates and worship of Lord Vishnu, Shiva and Surya; description of the heaven etc. In all, the subject matter of Bhavishya Purana seems to be an attempt to prove and establish the supremacy of Brahma.

2. Actually, Puranas are NOT scriptures of Hinduism. Its true that many Hindus revere them, but there it stops. None considers them as “authorities”. They fall in the Smriti portion of the Hindu Scriptures –ie., books which change according to time, place and person and hence are only to be considered as counsel and not as authorities- no different from all the management books you find in market today like "seven habits of successful men", "you can win" etc etc.

3. Even among the puranas it is accepted fact that many of them have been extensively changed in the last thousand years and Bhavishya Purana tops this list. This was done either by some Muslims trying to convert Hindus to Islam or by some over zealous Hindus trying to prove their loyalty to their new ‘rulers’.

4. I tried very much to find a copy of BP, but was not successful. I could only lay my hands on an a book summarizing BP and I did not find any such references in that book. There are no such references in an telugu translation of the book as well. So the bottom line is that it is very very difficult to find an copy of BP and even in the editions I managed to lay my hands on, I did not find any such references. Though I don’t have any references to give, a friend who knows lot better than me that there are many versions of Bhavishya Purana (BP) and that these so called references of Prophet are traced back to only one source, thus making it unreliable.

5. This fact is acknowledged even among orthodox circles. They do not readily accept anything from BP, unless the same is substantiated in other more reliable books also.

6. This is one side of it, but there will be always some people who will be never ready to accept what they don’t want to believe. Hence to such Muslims I can only say, if you believe that Prophet Mohammed is the 10^th incarnation of Vishnu, then you are welcome to worship the other previous incarnations of Vishnu (Rama, Krishna) as well :D.

7. There is a saying that the best way to defeat a ridiculous argument is to be more ridiculous. And our ISKCON, the Hindu version of Abrahamic religions does not want to be left behind in this. So it came up with the same tactics- it claims that Prophet Mohammed is indeed prophesied in BP, but not as an avatara, but as an illusionist coming in the form of a pisacha. It too gives its own version of “references” etc. It is redundant to mention that this too is fake, but then as I said, for some only these type of arguments work.

So I can safely conclude that all these stuff of Prophet in the Hindu scriptures is either misinformed or wrong propaganda. Muslims who indulge in this should realise that one need not produce (so-called) references from Hindu scriptures for converting Hindus or for making them respect Prophet. The principles are more important. If the life of Prophet, Christ etc is worthy of respect, Hindus will do so, even if not mentioned in their scriptures. If their life and teachings are not worthy of respect, Hindus cannot show respect to them, inspite of any references in the ‘scriptures’. Hence it is waste of energies to concentrate on such false propaganda. Instead focus on what they said and how they lived may be more helpful.