If someone in Chapter 7 tried to definitively label Sai Baba as either Hindu or Muslim, what contradictions would they encounter?

πŸ“– Chapter 7

According to the descriptions in Chapter 7, any attempt to label Sai Baba as strictly Hindu or Muslim would be met with immediate contradictions. If one were to call him a Hindu, they would have to reconcile that with his chosen residence in a mosque and his appearance, which could resemble a Muslim. Conversely, as the text points out, calling him a Muslim would ignore that his ears were pierced, a sacred fire (Dhuni) burned in his mosque, and numerous Hindu rituals like ringing bells, blowing conches, and singing Bhajans were performed there. The ultimate contradiction was that the most respected Brahmins and Agnihotris would abandon their pride in ritual purity to prostrate before him in a mosque.


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