What does

Rajneesh was born in Jabalpur in Take A look at Islam

India and had a mother as well as

Islam say a father who later became his Islam is a Semitic religion, which
disciples. has over one billion adherents all
about over the world. Islam means

Godmen? In May 1981 he went to U.S.A.

and established a town called
"submission to the will of God".
Muslims accept the Qur’an, as the
‘Rajneeshpuram’. He later fell foul word of God revealed to His last
of the West and was finally and final prophet, Mohammed
India is often called the land of
arrested and asked to leave the (peace be upon him). Islam states
‘god-men’. This is due to the
country. He came back to India that Allah sent messengers and
abundance of so-called spiritual
and started a commune in Pune prophets throughout the ages with
masters in India. Many of these
which is now known as the ‘Osho’ the message of Unity of God, and
‘babas’ and ‘saints’ have a large
commune. He died in 1990. The accountability in the Hereafter.
following in many countries.
followers of Osho Rajneesh Islam thus makes it an article of
Islam abhors deification of any
believe that he is Almighty God. At faith to believe in all the earlier
human being. To understand the
the ‘Osho commune’ in Pune one
Islamic stand towards such
can find the following epitaph on
pretenders to divinity, let us
his tombstone:
analyze one such ‘god-man’,
Osho Rajneesh.
"Osho – never born, never died;
only visited the planet Earth
between 11th December 1931 to
Let us put this candidate,
19th January 1990."
‘Bhagwan’ Rajneesh, to the test
What do you have to
of Surah Ikhlas, the touchstone
of theology:
They forget to mention that he do to become a
was not granted visa for 21
muslim?
countries of the world. Can a
person ever imagine ‘God’ visiting
i) The first criterion is "Say, He
the earth, and requiring a visa to There is only one
is Allah, one and only". Is
enter a country! The Archbishop requirement to be a
Rajneesh one and only? No!
of Greece said that if Rajneesh
Rajneesh was one among the muslim. You must
had not been deported, they
multitude of ‘spiritual teachers’
would have burnt his house and believe with all your
produced by India. Some
those of his disciples. heart that there is
disciples of Rajneesh might still
hold that Rajneesh is one and
(iv) The fourth test, which is the
only one god and
only
most stringent is, "There is none Mohamed is a
like unto
messenger.