Buddhism And Islam Similarities

Buddhism and Islam are both prevalent religions in the world today with Buddhism originating around 2500 BCE in India while Islam began around 700 CE in the Middle East. Buddhism began when Siddhartha Gautama became enlightened and started spreading his teachings of what he learned throughout India. Islam began through the teachings of their main and highest prophet, Muhammad. Islam and Buddhism are similar through their beliefs in a founder and a set of ethical standards which they live their life by. On the other hand, they differ in many ways including the fact that buddhists are polytheistic while muslims are monotheistic. They also differ in what happens after death, the buddhist believe when one dies they are reincarnated until you reach
So, in turn, both believe in a religious founder as they needed someone to originally spread the teachings to their people. This allowed for the spread of either Islam or Buddhism, and gave reason for others to join with their founder to become closer to reaching Allah or their ultimate goal of nirvana for Islam and Buddhism respectively. This similarity happens because it helps the people see through the eyes of them and see how they lived their life. It gives them an example for how they should live their own lives and how they should reach their ultimate goal. In hand when you follow the path of your founder and strive to be like him, you should reach your ultimate goal. So, just because these religions don’t share a founder or common belief, they do all admire their founder and admire to live like them. Buddhists and Muslims also had a code of ethical standards for all members of their religious community. These religions have theses sets of ethical standpoints or codes as it gives people a code of law to act their lives upon. It can help keep their religious and normal community stable, through the teachings of Allah or Siddhartha Gautama. This allows for the communities to be unified through the teachings in their religion and be stabilized as everyone shares an ethical
In Buddhism Siddhartha Gautama didn’t want anyone to pray to gods, he just wanted his followers to pray and meditate towards their path of reaching nirvana. They let Siddhartha Gautama [The Buddha] teach them their way and path throughout their journey to eternal bliss and enlightenment. Meanwhile, muslims view Allah as their supreme being. They only view Allah as a god and other gods cannot take that place. If the muslims pledge allegiance to Allah throughout their lives Allah might in turn, give them eternal life in heaven. Buddhists and muslims also have different views on life after death. In the Islamic religion you live one life and then you can either go to heaven or hell depending on how you lived your life. Heaven is a place of total bliss and happiness while hell is a place of darkness and despair. If you lived your life to what Allah wanted you will be granted a graceful afterlife in heaven, however, if you have failed to please Allah you will spend the rest of eternity suffering in hell. Buddhists, on the other hand, believe that you are capable of being reincarnated as many times as need be until you reach nirvana. Buddhists believe in karma which is saying good comes from good actions and bad comes from bad actions. If you do good deeds in your life but you don’t reach nirvana you have a higher chance than in your previous life at reaching nirvana. Nirvana, the end goal