Islam Versus Different Schools: Liberalism and Pluralism

[54] Also see (5:69).

[55] There is also the issue of whether or not the non-Abrahamic sects are to be considered religions. Some Buddhists, for example, claim that what they teach is merely a philosophy and method of meditation, and that one could be, for example, a Jew and a Buddhist at the same time, just as there are Christian Platonists and Christian Aristotelians.

[56] See Nicholson's edition of the Mathnavi, Book II, line 1720f.

[57] Also see (9:73), (33:73), (48:6) and (66:9).