Editing Kalki Avatar and Muhammad (section)

=====Muslim views=====
Indian Islamic preacher [[Zakir Naik]]  deliderately mentioned extensive references from this book along with mentioning the writer Ved Prakash's name in his various writings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Naik |first1=Zakir |author1-link=Zakir Naik |title=Similarities Between Hinduism & Islam |date=2007 |publisher=Adam Publishers & Distributors |isbn=978-81-7435-567-6 |pages=33–43, 80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=So4O46mUp0QC |access-date=28 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

Pakistani former high commissioner [[Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi]]  discussed the book in his writing.<ref name=af/> Besides renowned international writers like [[Ali Unal]],<ref name="Au"/> [[Shams Naved Usmani]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=ʻUs̲mānī |first1=Shams Navīd |title=Agar ab bhī nah jāge tau-- |date=1989 |publisher=Raushnī Pablishing Hāʼūs |page=132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tDtAAAAIAAJ&q=%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF+%D9%BE%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4+%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=ur}}</ref> [[Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=بشىر |first1=محمود، سلطان |title=کتاب زندگى: قرآن حکىم کى سائنسى تفسىر : سورة الفاتحه، سورة البقرة |date=2003 |publisher=القرآن الحکىم رىسر چ فاؤنڈىشن، |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FNPXAAAAMAAJ&q=%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF+%D9%BE%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4+%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92 |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=ur}}</ref> and [[:ms:Danial Zainal Abidin|Danial Zainal Abidin]],<ref name="dz"/> [[Ali Goma]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=المصرية) |first1=علي جمعة محمد (مفتي الديار |title=اعرف نبيك: صلى الله عليه وسلم |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=Nahdet Misr Publishing Group |isbn=978-977-14-2365-2 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjLwCgAAQBAJ&dq=%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A+%D9%88+%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF&pg=PA27 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=ar}}</ref> [[Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=الرحمن |first1=مباركفوري، صفي |title=و انك لعلى خلق عظيم 1 |date=2006 |publisher=الدار الاسلامية للطباعة والنشر |isbn=978-977-6195-00-4 |page=374 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eGi5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF+%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4+%22 |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=ar}}</ref> [[:ar:سامي عامري|Sami Amri]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=عامري |first1=سامي |title=محمد رسول الله فى الكتب المقدسة : عند النصارى و اليهود و الهندوس و الصابئة و البوذيين و المجوس |date=2006 |publisher=منظمة الاسلاميةللعلوم الطبية |isbn=978-977-289-127-6 |pages=420–427 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=575gAAAAIAAJ&q=Ved+prarkash+upaddhayaya |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=ar}}</ref> [[Nihat Hatipoğlu]]<ref name=oda>{{cite news |title=Nihat Hatipoğlu Hinduları Müslüman ilan etti |url=https://www.odatv4.com/medya/nihat-hatipoglu-hindulari-musluman-ilan-etti-20121914-174878 |access-date=26 September 2023 |work=[[OdaTV]] |date=20 December 2019 |language=tr-TR}}</ref> etc. discussed and praised the book.

[[Ziaur Rahman Azmi]] in his book ''"Dirasat fil Yahudiyat wal Masihiyat Wal Adianil Hind"'' (دراست في اليوديه والمسيحيه واديان الحند, Studies on Judaism, Christianity and Indian Religions) stated that, although most of the mainstream Muslim scholars do not regard [[Hindu scriptures]] as [[people of the book|divine scriptures]] revealed from God rather than man-made [[Historical vedic religion|Aryan literature]], there may be three reasons behind the "possible" inclusion of Islamic prophecies in Hinduism.<ref name=Ab>{{cite journal |last1=الحافي |first1=د عمر |last2=البصول |first2=السيد علي |title=البشارات بنبؤة محمد في الكتب الهندوسية المقدسة |journal=The Jordanian Journal of Islamic Studies |date=24 June 2010 |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=2, 12 |url=http://repository.aabu.edu.jo/jspui/handle/123456789/363 |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=[[Al al-Bayt University]]}}</ref> First one is, 
# The period of the [[Indo-Aryan Migration]] was during the time of Prophet Abraham, during which another prophet may have come to India, under whose direction these prophecies are included. 
# Or what many Hindus say, [[Rigveda]] is copied from [[Torah]]. 
# Another view is that, according to Sultan Mubin, professor of Sanskrit at [[Shibli National College, Azamgarh]], they are fabrications and later Hindu additions, incorporated by Hindus to please Muslim rulers, such as the [[Kalki Purana]] and the [[Bhavishya Purana]], which contain many prophecies on Islamic matters.<ref name=Ab/> Azmi argues in support of this view that most of the Hindu scriptures were translated into Arabic in [[House of Wisdom|Bayt Al-Hiqmah]] during the reign of the Caliph [[al-Ma'mun|Mamun bin al-Rashid]], but even then, no author of that time mentioned anything of these prophecies in any of these books. For example, [[Alberuni's India|India]] by [[al-Biruni]] ("تحقيق ما للهند من مقولة مقبولة في العقل أو مرذولة", Taḥqīq mā li-l-hind min maqūla maqbūla fī l-ʿaql aw mardhūla, A Critical Study of Indian Doctrines, Whether Rationally Acceptable or Not) and the Arabic translations of two other Hindu scriptures. Regarding the translations, none of which said anything about these prophecies.<ref name=Ab/> 
Azmi himself supported the third view.<ref name=Ab/> Azmi Also said that, some Hindus including the founder of [[Arya Samaj]] [[Dayananda Saraswati]] and his followers also consider these to be fabrications. Besides, regarding the author of the book, Ved Prakash Upadhyay, Azmi said that although he claimed the verification of these prophecies in this book, he himself did not convert to Islam, as Azmi describes 5 positions of Hindu scholars regarding these descriptions:<ref name=Ab/>
# Many of them say that these good news are related to their religious leaders and great people.
# Others believe that the person to whom this good news is addressed will appear in the last days.
# Many consider these to be fabrications. Eg: [[Dayananda Saraswati]] and his followers.
# Some consider these to be true;  But they did not accept Islam. Such as Ved Prakash Upadhyay and Ramesh Prasad.
# Many others accepted the truth of these and wished to accept Islam, but did not do so for fear of losing their lives or leadership.  Among them, those who accepted Islam and publicly declared it, had to face many dangers, had to bear the beatings, abuse and torture of the natives.  Those who escaped were freed from it;  And those who were under them, their fate was miserable.
# Many of them again adopt the policy of keeping quiet about this.  When Azmi wrote letters to many people in India and sent these details to present them in front of Hindu researchers and professors, they replied to Azmi that they did not want to talk about this if these were presented in front of those professors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=الرحمن |first1=أعظمى، محمد ضياء |title=دراسات في اليهودية والمسيحية وأديان الهند |date=2001 |publisher=مكتبة الرشد، |pages=703–708 |url=https://www.noor-book.com/en/book/internal_download/865e7470002231144605c52e5e264acd/2/fb5dd854dcf907fb80f85b5242f2e4f8/NDI2NzVlNmY3N2ZhOTUxNDMzZGVhY2I0NDg0MmI4OGMzNWIyMDgyNmRlZTI4ZmYxN2QyY2RjNGRkMGQzMzg0OWI5MmNkYjhmYTExNzEwNDA1N2YyNWMzNWIyYjBkYWEzMWVhOWUxZDJmZmUwYmM0MGI4ZWNkYWMxZjkzZGJlZjQxS1dhZ3ZyRUgwZnA3RmQrRThEeURZSFpKNysrUkFZQ3FoeG5WYTdaZkVhL2cranNiZFdnVThjWWc0OXZnTVpn |access-date=14 August 2022 |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=الرحمن |first1=أعظمى، محمد ضياء |title=دراسات في اليهودية والمسيحية وأديان الهند والبشارات في كتب الهندوس |date=2008 |publisher=مكتبة الرشد، |pages=703–708 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4bGWswEACAAJ&q=%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%AA+%D9%81%D9%8A+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D9%88+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D9%88+%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF |access-date = 14 August 2022|language=ar}}</ref>

[[Bangladesh]]i Islamic scholar [[Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria]], who has conducted advanced research and studies on [[Hinduism]] at the [[Islamic University of Madinah]] in Saudi Arabia, said about the book in his book ''Hinduism wa tasur bad al firaq al islamiat biha'' (Hinduism and some Islamic groups influenced by it) that,<ref name="AHWT"/> 
{{blockquote|"There is a section for this Purana ([[Bhavishya Purana]]) called [[Kalki Purana]], which touched upon [[Kalki]] Avatar, (Avatar that comes in the Kali time, or the last time) and what came in this Purana was the reality of Muhammad only, when one of their scholars (Ved Prakash Upaddhay) admitted that there is no Kalki Avatar except Muhammad and he mentioned evidence for that from this book, and claimed that it only applies to it, except that the Hindus differed in accepting this part of the book, and they said that it was plagiarized and it was developed by the later and it was included in the book at a very late time."<ref name="AHWT"/>}}
Zakaria also criticized the book, saying that Narasangsha is described in verse 127 of the 20th volume of the Atharveda as Kalki which is not the main body of the Atharvaveda, he said that it is an anticipatory portion (Prakshipta Angsha or later interpolation) and subsequent connections, and claimed that prophecies of the Prophet [[Muhammad]] in Hindu scriptures were used by Hindus to make their scriptures acceptable to Muslims, which is a clever attempt, beginning with Akbar's reign to flatter Emperor Akbar by writing the [[Allopanishad]], he claims that the Bhavishya Purana is completely fabricated and man-made with Hindu references. He says that Hinduism has a habit of adding everything in its religion they got outside in the name of their own religion fabricatedly to attract people to come into their religion, this is also a result of that. In addition, all Hindu scriptures, including the Vedas, are claimed to be adaptations of the beliefs of the migrated [[Japhethite]] [[Aryan]]s ([[Zoroastrian]]s and [[Rigved]]ians), indigenous [[Hemite]] [[Dravid]]ians, and other [[Proto-Indo-European mythology|Indo-European classical mythologies]] along with the influence of monotheism taken from [[Avesta]]n concept of [[Ahura Mazda]] influenced by tha geographically adjacent Arabian [[Semitic people]], as he claimed that, ancient Dravidian Indians were the descendant of [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]], one of the [[sons of Noah]], and the [[Aryan]]s were the descendants of [[Japheth]], another of the three remained sons of [[Noah]] after the [[Genesis flood narrative|Biblical great flood]],
{{blockquote|This is what historians have mentioned regarding the origin of the people of India, although the truth of the matter is that all are from [[Adam]], and Adam is from dust, and God has destroyed the children of Adam except for [[sons of Noah|Noah's children]]. The Almighty said: In it, the [[sons of Noah]] who remained after the Flood were three: [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]] - [[Shem]] - [[Japheth]], and the sons of Noah spread all over the world ([[as-Saaffat]]  37:75-82, [[Al-Bidaya wa l-Nihaya|Al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya]], [[Ibn Kathir]], 1/111-114), and the lands at that time were close, and the seas were far apart, and it is said that [[Sindh]] and [[Al-Hind]] are the sons of Tawqeer (Bouqir) (Nawfer) bin Yaqtan bin Aber bin Shalekh bin Arfakhshad bin Sam bin Noah. It was said: One of the sons of Ham, [[Al-Masudi]] says: (Nuvir bin Lot bin Ham walked his son and those who followed him to the land of Hind and Sindh), and [[Ibn al-Athir]] says: (As for [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]], [[Cush (Bible)|Kush]], [[Misraim]], [[Phut]], and [[Canaan (son of Ham)|Canaan]] were born... It was said: He traveled to Al-Hind (India) and Sindh and lodged it and its people from his sons and [[Ibn Khaldun]] says: As for Ham, from his sons are the [[Sudan]], Hind (India), Sindh, the [[Copt]]s (Kibt), and Canaan by agreement... As for Kush bin Ham, five of his sons are mentioned in the Torah, and they are sufun, [[Saba]], and Juila and [[Rama]] and Safakha and from the sons of Rama Shao, who are the Sindh, and Dadan, who are Hind or India, and in it that [[Nimrod]] is from the birth of Kush,..... and that Al-Hind (India), Sindh and Habasha ([[Abyssinia]]) are from the children of the [[Sudan]] from the birth of [[Cush (Bible)|Kush]]. From the foregoing it appears to me: that India entered it at that time from all the races of decendants of Noah, and among the most prominent of them were the sons of [[Shem]] bin Noah, peace be upon him, but the sincere [[Dravid]]s and those who are likely to be the sons of [[Ham (son of Noah)|Ham]] entered it in abundance. As for the entry of the sons of [[Japheth]], it was little, and they are the ones who were known as the [[Turanian]]s, and by joining the ancient Dravid society and as a result of breeding with them, the born Dravids came as previously explained.<ref name="AHWT"/>}} and says that since the Hindu texts do not "truely" contain the original Abrahamic monotheism of God or [[Allah]], it is in neither consistent with the original tenets of Islam, nor these are original divine books, rather the pagan [[Advaita Vedanta]] philosophy, which developed the concept of [[Wahdat al-Wujud]] or [[Sufism]] arose in the name of Islam. And as Hinduism established itself as a conformist and syncretistic doctrine from the Islamic point of view, he claimed that, all Hindu scriptures are not inspired but man-made Aryan literature and the theory that this book attributed Kalki to Muhammad was a false and deceitful attempt.<ref name="AHWT">{{cite book |title=الهندوسية وتأثر بعض الفرق الاسلامية بها |date=2016 |publisher=Dār al-Awrāq al-Thaqāfīyah |isbn=978-603-90755-6-1 |pages=17, 63, 95–96, 102, 156, 188–189, 554–558, 698–99, 825, 870–890, 990–991, 1067–1068, 1071, 1159 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zLGztAEACAAJ&q=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A3%D8%AB%D8%B1+%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%B6+%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%82+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9+%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7 |access-date=28 July 2023  |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=প্রশ্ন : হিন্দু ধর্মে ভবিষ্যৎবাণী কোথায় থেকে আসলো? শাইখ প্রফেসর ড. আবু বকর মুহাম্মাদ যাকারিয়া (Question: Where did prophecy come from in Hinduism? Sheikh Professor Dr. Abu Bakar Muhammad Zakaria) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KteGroIh940|publisher=[[Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria]]'s YouTube page|access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=হিন্দু ধর্ম গ্রন্থে মুহাম্মাদ ﷺ এর নাম কেন? শায়খ ড. আবু বকর মুহাম্মাদ যাকারিয়া হাফিজাহুল্লাহ (Why is the name of Muhammad ﷺ mentioned in Hindu scriptures? Sheikh Dr. Abu Bakr Muhammad Zakaria Hafizahullah) |url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=prTUf2qU7lmKYEBQ&v=ooZL7Rc27QE&feature=youtu.be |publisher=[[Youtube]] |access-date=26 September 2023 |language=en |date=31 July 2023}}</ref>