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Comparative paper for Prophet Muhammad and Gautama Buddha

Introduction

This paper is intended for making a comparison between the Prophet Muhammad and Gautama Buddha as the rebellions, as they both was rebellions for some of the noble causes and purposes. They both worked for their own religions and still their preachers and followers are following their preaching and teachings regarding religion. Prophet Muhammad is known as the great religious leader of the leaders of Muslims, who founded the basis of Islam in thousands of people and Gautama Buddha was the great leader of Buddhism and founded the religion of Buddhism. Comparatively, Islam and Buddhism have fewer similarities and more differences in their religious philosophies. Whereas Islam is a monotheistic religion that accepts as true and believes in worshipping just a single almighty God and nobody else, and the religion of Buddhist refuses the belief and concept of a creator, God, but respects and honors some enlightened human beings as divinities. Buddhism encourages the concept of vegetarianism and shirking the drugs and alcohol. Islam bans the use of drugs and alcohols as well but does not advocate just vegetarianism.

In the context of the religion of Buddhism, the religion in founded by Gautama Buddha or Siddhartha Gautama. Buddhism comprises of a philosophy more than just a religion, and the philosophy compasses a wide variety of practices, traditions, and beliefs. The followers of Gautama Buddha believe in the two key categories of Buddhism such as, Mahayana (The Great Vehicle), and the Theravada (The Elders' School). The religion prevailed by Gautama Buddha is an extensively practiced religion in Sri Lanka and South-east Asia.

Discussion

When it comes to discuss about the major religions in the globe then numerous of people are cynical or even anxious of the things about that they do not have as much know how. Here, in this paper, there will be a try to clear some of the most fallacies regarding the two most general religion of the world and that is Islam and Buddhism.

The religion of Islam which is followed by the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and is based on the holy book Qur'an, and the factual meaning of the Islam is to submission to one God, thus, a follower of Prophet Muhammad is one who submits himself to one God i.e. Allah. The religion of Islam is founded on the teachings of Prophet Muhammad and there are five obligations that every follower of him must practice within the Muslim community. This religion is highly dominant in the Middle East, North Africa, and in several parts of the Asia. Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim country with around 13 percent of the total population practicing the teachings of Prophet Muhammad. Sub-continents of India as well as Arab countries also contain an overly high proportion of the Muslims. Both Prophet Muhammad and Gautama Buddha were rebellions in their own ways or in their lives.

In the context of the religion of Buddhism, the religion in ...