Osho on Islam

Osho refused to comment on Quran because he found it meaningless and he commented on various scriptures and other people like Kabir, Bulle Shah, Meera Bai etc because he found some essence in the words and lives of these people. That is the reason. Quran, he found worthless and that he said in the last phase of his life. (Also read this article:--- नुपुर शर्मा ) Osho said all organized religions are worthless, yeah, that is okay. But there is some essence in Japji Saheb, which came long before Sikhi became an organized religion, he chose it and spoke on it. He chose Kabir's words and spoke on them. He spoke on Budha's words, but it does not mean that he conformed to Buddhist rituals, he just found some essence and talked on the subject. He chose to speak on many less known saints and fakirs. About Islam though he had spoken somewhat positive also in the initial stages but later-on declined it altogether. That is it. Osho exhaustively talks on Quran proving it divine, equivalent to Dhammpada, Upanishads, Geeta, Tao te Ching. He tells that in-spite of Muhammad being an illiterate man, his words are no less deeper than the sophisticated words of Budha or the sages of Upanishads.----Deepak Baar Naam Ka, discourse No.5 This he said before but later on see what he said. In 'From Unconsciousness to Consciousness/ Chapter #5' "Mohammed was an absolutely illiterate man, and the Koran, in which his sayings are collected, is ninety-nine percent rubbish. You can just open the book anywhere and read it, and you will be convinced of what I am saying. I am not saying on a certain page -- anywhere. You just open the book accidentally, read the page and you will be convinced of what I am saying. Whatsoever one percent truth there is here and there in the Koran is not Mohammed's. It is just ordinary, ancient wisdom that uneducated people collect easily -- more easily than the educated people, because educated people have far better sources of information -- books, libraries, universities, scholars. The uneducated, simply by hearing the old people, collect a few words of wisdom here and there. And those words are significant, because for thousands of years they have been tested and found somehow true. So it is the wisdom of the ages that is scattered here and there; otherwise, it is the most ordinary book possible in the world. Mohammedans have been asking me, "Why don't you speak on the Koran? You have spoken on The Bible, on the Gita, this and that." I could not say to them that it is all rubbish; I simply went on postponing. Even just before I went into silence, a Mohammedan scholar sent the latest English version of the Koran, praying me to speak on it. But now I have to say that it is all rubbish, that is why I have not spoken on it -- because why unnecessarily waste time? And this is from a paigambara, a messenger from God!" Yeah, he said that all organized religions are dangerous for humanity. But he also knew that Islam is the most dangerous, that is why he abstained from criticizing Islam. And he said this also. Why to take risk of life? When you have something important to do? He said that. " So many Mohammedan friends have asked me, "You have spoken on many religions, why don't you speak on the Koran?" I said, "Do you want me to be murdered?" I have something else to do meanwhile. Finally, when I think that it is time for me to leave the body, I will speak on the Koran. And I will manage to have one of my sannyasins kill me and get 2.6 million dollars for my work! While my work is incomplete, I am not going to speak on holy scriptures, because they are the most primitive kind of literature." ----celebr05 I myself came to the conclusion that all religions are poisons but Islam is Potassium Cyanide. And I think he too concluded the same hence he refrain from commenting upon Islam. And whatever criticism came from him, that too came just in last phase of his life, when he felt that his work has been almost done. What ever important he was to say, he has already delivered, then only he took the risk of saying that Quran is jut rubbish. That is it. Nmn.