Ancient Egyptian: ?Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.? The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, 109 ? 110 Translated by R.B. Parkinson. The original dates to 1970 to 1640 BCE and may be the earliest version ever written.
Bah????Faith:? ?Choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself.? Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
Brahmanism: ?This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you?. Mahabharata, 5:1517
Buddhism:? ??a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?? Samyutta NIkaya v. 353
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.? Udana-Varga 5:18
Christianity:? ?Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.? Matthew 7:12, King James Version.
?And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.? Luke 6:31, King James Version.
??and don?t do what you hate?? Gospel of Thomas 6.
Confucianism: ??Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you? Analects 15:23
?Ze-Gong asked, ?Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?? Confucius replied, ?It is the word ?xu? ? reciprocity. Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.?? Doctrine of the Mean 13.3
?Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence.? Mencius VII.A.4
Hinduism:? ?One should not behave towards others in a way which is disagreeable to oneself.? Mencius Vii.A.4
?This is the sum of the Dharma [duty]: do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.? Mahabharata 5:1517
Humanism: ?(5) Humanists acknowledge human interdependence, the need for mutual respect and the kinship of all humanity.?
?Don?t do things you wouldn?t want to have done to you, British Humanist Society.
Jainism:? ?In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.? Lord Mahavira, 24th Tirthankara
?A man should wander about treating all creatures as he himself would be treated. ?Sutrakritanga 1.11.33
Judaism:? ??thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.?, Leviticus 19:18
?What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man. This is the law: all the rest is commentary.? Talmud, Shabbat 31a.
?And what you hate, do not do to any one.? Tobit 4:15
Native American Spirituality: ??All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.? Black Elk
Roman Pagan Religion: ?The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves.?
Shinto:? ?The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form?
Sikhism:? ?Don?t create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone.? Guru Arjan Devji 259
Taoism: ?Regard your neighbor?s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor?s loss as your own loss.? T?ai Shang Kan Ying P?ien.
Wicca: ?And it harm no one, do what thou wilt? (i.e. do what ever you will, as long as it harms nobody, including yourself). One?s will is to be carefully thought out in advance of action. This is called the Wiccan Rede
Yoruba: ( Nigeria ): ?One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself to feel how it hurts.?
Zoroastrianism:? ?That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself?. Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5
?Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others.?? Shayast-na-Shayast 13:29
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Plato: ?May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.? ( Greece ; 4th century BCE)
Socrates: ?Do not do to others that which would anger you if others did it to you.? ( Greece ; 5th century BCE)
Seneca: ?Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your superiors,? Epistle 47:11 ( Rome ; 1st century CE)
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Islam is the only religion that does not adhere to the Golden Rule
The closest that Islam comes to this principle is a hadith that says:
?None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.? Number 13 of Imam ?Al-Nawawi?s Forty Hadiths.?
This brotherhood however does not extend to everyone. Quran (9:23) states that the believers should not take for friends and protectors (awlia) their fathers and brothers if they love Infidelity above Islam. In fact there are many verses that tell the Muslims to kill the unbelievers and be harsh with them.
A clear example that Islam is not based on the Golden Rule is the verse (48:29) It says: ?Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other.?
This is the perfect definition of fascism. There are many other verses that show the brotherhood in Islam is not universal. The rest of mankind have no rights and should not be treated in the same way that Muslims are to be treated.
The entire Quran is the breach of the Golden Rule. Quran tells Muslims to slay the unbelievers wherever they find them (2:191), do not befriend them (3:28), fight them and show them harshness (9:123), and smite their heads (47:4).
Nowhere in the Koran is there an expression of the Golden Rule…
…therefore, it is of no importance in Islam and Muslims have no reason to observe it. Since Islam’s most important message to humanity (the Noble Koran) does not contain the Golden Rule, it is logical that it was unimportant to Allah. This explains why he entirely omitted it from the Koran. The Golden Rule is held to be central by all religions except Islam. Muslims are surprised to learn their faith does not teach it, but rather, teaches the opposite…to hate infidels ‘for the sake of Allah’. That doctrine (of actual hatred towards non-Muslims) is the second most important doctrine in Islam and is called ‘Al-Walaa wal-Baraa’ (allegiance to Muslims and disassociation from infidels).
There is, however, a very restricted version of the principle of reciprocity found in the Hadiths. The Hadiths are a subsidiary collection of sayings and acts of Mohammed and his companions. They have much less authority than the Koran, but contain a version of the Golden Rule which applies only among “brother” Muslims. This Islamic “brotherhood rule” is not universal and does not apply to non-Muslims.
Islamic reciprocity is restricted to interactions between Muslim “brothers”. (An infidel is not to be addressed as “brother” by a Muslim.)
The Hadith quotes Mohammed as saying: “None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” (Number 13 of Imam al-Nawawi’s “Forty Hadiths.)
Other Hadiths clarify the limitation of Islamic reciprocity to relations between Muslim brothers:
Bukhari 9,85,83 Mohammed said: “A Muslim is a brother to other Muslims. He should never oppress them nor should he facilitate their oppression.” (Note: but he may oppress infidels.)
Bukhari 8,73,70 Mohammed said: “Harming a Muslim is an evil act; killing a Muslim means rejecting Allah.” (Note: but harming or killing an infidel is a mere misdemeanour.)
Finally, the Koran itself makes it clear that brotherhood applies only towards other Muslims: (Koran 48:29) : “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and those who are with him are violent (ashidaa’) against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate amongst each other.”
Such a standard is no higher than that of the mafia or another similar “crime family”. Islam does teach this, and there is the proof of it.
Islam divides the entire world into Islam and the Kafirs (unbelievers) and has two separate sets of ethics for each sphere.
The basis of the Golden Rule is the universal equality of all humankind, regardless of their religion, race or origin. It does not say: Do unto some persons, as you would have them do unto you, but do unto all persons as you would have them do unto you.
Islam denies the universality of the Golden Rule because Islam starts with the division of all humanity, into two different groups: Islamic and non-Islamic. Every aspect of Islamic ethics is based upon this separation, thus Islam has two different ethical codes. Said another way, Islam has dualistic ethics. Thus, in Islam, “Good” is whatever advances Islam; “Evil” is whatever resists Islam.
In the Koran, the main concern is that of forcing the peoples of the earth to submit to Islam and then keeping them in it, as if in a mental prison. Thus, Allah did not forget to include 164 Koranic verses commanding Muslims to go on jihaad (holy wars of conquest) and many verses commanding Muslims to murder renegades from Islam. Such verses are opposed to and irreconcilable with the Golden Rule. If such angry verses were removed, 61% of the Koran, 75% of the Sira and 20% of the Hadiths would disappear.
Finally, the Koranic concepts of ‘kafir’ (an impure, subhuman non-Muslim) and ‘jihad’ (sacred warfare to remove the human rights and civil liberties of kafirs and ethnically cleanse them) entirely preclude the Golden Rule by stating kafirs are unequal to Muslims. The Golden Rule affirms that all people are inherently equal, unlike Islam. A kafir may never be treated equally to a Muslim, nor offered genuine friendship or love.
This is perhaps the strongest argument that Islam is an exclusive, supremacist cult: The Golden Rule is entirely missing from the Koran, both from the letter as well as the spirit of Islam’s original texts.