Are there any Arabs who are Hindus?

[Anthony PV]

1) I help people and you dont know me and I dont need to justify myself against your claims just call you low IQ

2) I explained to you that I dont need moral superiority or only saints could do that.

3) Do you think you have moral superiority? If you call me out maybe you think you have?

1) Care to give an example of you helping people out?

2) Yep, only a saint can tell if a religion like Hinduism is shitty or not. And you, you are not a saint.

3)Me, I have worked in a soup kitchen... Have you done something similar?

[Mortimer]

1) Care to give an example of you helping people out?

2) Yep, only a saint can tell if a religion like Hinduism is shitty or not. And you, you are not a saint.

3)Me, I have worked in a soup kitchen... Have you done something similar?

I dont need to give you examples, because I dont need to get into justifications to you. But just that I did helped people. Thats enough.

[Anthony PV]

I never helped anyone. I think the world revolves around me and has to cater to my every whim.

Fixed.

[Kamal900]

I'm sure there are Arab-derived Indians who have 'converted' i.e. adopted Hinduism.

See Arvind Sharma's Hinduism as a Missionary Religion published by SUNY.

You mean the Arabs who got Indo-Aryanized or Dravidianized? I guess it makes sense for such a scenario.

[Rico33]

Goddess worship of ancient Arabs seems to resemble Shaktism.

[Kamal900]

Goddess worship of ancient Arabs seems to resemble Shaktism.

Not really. Arabs back then used to worship their own gods and goddesses like Al-Uzza, Al-Manat, Al-Lat, Dushara and etc. They used to worship other gods and goddesses that were not their own like Zeus, Ba'al, other Arabian gods and etc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religi...Arabia#Deities

I made this thread when I was an atheist. Now, I embraced Christianity.

[Rico33]

Not really. Arabs back then used to worship their own gods and goddesses like Al-Uzza, Al-Manat, Al-Lat, Dushara and etc. They used to worship other gods and goddesses that were not their own like Zeus, Ba'al, other Arabian gods and etc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religi...Arabia#Deities

I made this thread when I was an atheist. Now, I embraced Christianity.

No I actually meant it in the sense that they could just as well become Hindu and follow Shaktism because that is something that still exists.

[Kamal900]

No I actually meant it in the sense that they could just as well become Hindu and follow Shaktism because that is something that still exists.

Well, it wouldn't be odd for them to do since they did have trade contacts with the peoples of the Indian subcontinent, especially the peoples of the Persian gulf.

[lameduck]

Dont know religiously but many are racially

[tipirneni]

During Neolithic times, there was bidirectional migration between Arabian peninsula & Iran & India. These people later formed the basis of the society. Later during chalcolithic times they started doing ocean based trade with Mesopotamia & further into Mediternean and Europe on the West, SE Asian and Japan to the East.

So the Gods of Middle East look very similar to Hindu gods.

The Goddesses Al-Uzza, Al-Lat and Menat formed a triad in pre-Islamic Arabia. They were widely worshipped: from Nabatean Petra in the North to the legendary Kingdoms of Arabia Felix in the South, including Saba, the Biblical Sheba; as far east as Iran and Palmyra; and the three of them were very popular Goddesses in Mecca at the time of Mohammed. From left they are: Al-Uzza, whose name means "The Mighty One", the Goddess of the Morning Star; Al-Lat, the Mother, whose name means simply "The Goddess", as Al-Lah simply means "The God"; and Manat, Crone-goddess of Fate or Time. Sometimes the three of them are referred to as the daughters of Al-Lah; sometimes Manat and Al-Lat are considered daughters of Al-Uzza.



are similar to trinity of Hindu Goddess of Lakshmi Devi, Saraswati and Parvathi


The Vedas contain earlier Hindu god Varuna, who comes from across Ocean and brings luck and riches to the people

Rig Veda HYMN XXIV. Varuna and Others.
1 WHO now is he, what God among Immortals, of whose auspicious name we may bethink us?
Who shall to mighty Aditi restore us, that I may see my Father and my Mother?
2 Agni the God the first among the Immortals, - of his auspicious name let us bethink us.
He shall to mighty Aditi restore us, that I may see my Father and my Mother.
3 To thee, O Savitar, the Lord of precious things, who helpest us
Continually, for our share we come-
4 Wealth, highly lauded ere reproach hath fallen on it, which is laid,
Free from all hatred, in thy hands
5 Through thy protection may we come to even the height of affluence
Which Bhaga hath dealt out to us.
6 Ne'er have those birds that fly through air attained to thy high dominion or thy might or spirit;
Nor these the waters that flow on for ever, nor hills, abaters of the wind's wild fury.
7 Varuna, King, of hallowed might, sustaineth erect the Tree's stem in the baseless region.
Its rays, whose root is high above, stream downward. Deep may they sink within us, and be hidden.
8 King Varuna hath made a spacious pathway, a pathway for the Sun wherein to travel.
Where no way was he made him set his footstep, and warned afar whate'er afflicts the spirit.
9 A hundred balms are thine, O King, a thousand; deep and wide-reaching also be thy favours.
Far from us, far away drive thou Destruction. Put from us e'en the sin we have committed.
10 Whither by day depart the constellations that shine at night, set high in heaven above us?
Varuna's holy laws remain unweakened, and through the night the Moon moves on in splendor
11 I ask this of thee with my prayer adoring; thy worshipper craves this with his oblation.
Varuna, stay thou here and be not angry; steal not our life from us, O thou Wide-
Ruler.
12 Nightly and daily this one thing they tell me, this too the thought of mine own heart repeateth.
May he to whom prayed fettered Sunahsepa, may he the Sovran Varuna release us.
13 Bound to three pillars captured Sunahsepa thus to the Aditya made his supplication.
Him may the Sovran Varuna deliver, wise, ne'er deccived, loosen the bonds that bind him.
14 With bending down, oblations, sacrifices, O Varuna, we deprecate thine anger:
Wise Asura, thou King of wide dominion, loosen the bonds of sins by us committed.
15 Loosen the bonds, O Varuna, that hold me, loosen the bonds above, between, and under.
So in thy holy law may we made sinless belong to Aditi, O thou Aditya.


Even today the people of Iran & Iraq have some South Asian % in them from those Chalcolithic & Iran Age trade