Based on Chapter 7, what physical and circumstantial evidence made it difficult to categorize Sai Baba as strictly Hindu or Muslim?

๐Ÿ“– Chapter 7

Chapter 7 provides several compelling points that illustrate the ambiguity of Sai Baba's religious identity. The text states that if one called him a Hindu, he looked like a Yavana (Muslim), and if called a Yavana, he had the noble marks of a Hindu. It points to conflicting physical evidence: his ears were pierced, a common Hindu practice, yet evidence of circumcision, a Muslim custom, was also noted. Circumstantially, if one considered him a Hindu, the fact that he always resided in a mosque was a contradiction. Chapter 7 concludes that he was neither Hindu nor Muslim, but a holy incarnation beyond such labels.


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