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20 Deeply moving reflections on reading the same led this writer to spontaneously & intuitively write down articles in English & Hindi and pen a few poems in Gujarati. Some were sent to Bengalooru News Magazines also. Telephonic compliments were also communicated to this learned editor-friend.
The basis of the said editorial titled "ISLAM & VEGETARIANISM” was the findings of a Vegetarian Modern Muslim Writer & Journalist Padmashree Muzaffar Hussain of Mumbai, in his deeply & exclusively studied book under the same title. After going through more than 30 books, writer Muzaffar Hussain narrates several surprising facts & expositions regarding the human culture & civilisation, its originator first Jain Tirthankara Adinatha Rishabhadeva, non-violent Jainism and also the basic importance of non-violence & compassion in primitive Islam! He cites AHIMSA DHARMA, the religion of non-violence, being the only criteria of growth throughout, by saying "no religion or philosophy of the world will be able to survive if it is not inspired & motivated by Ahimsa". He wonderfully defines the Ahimsa-based Jainism in this context, by observing:
