Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "communal-harmony"

Humans be human, alive and aware,
not tokens of ancestral blunder.
Awake, arise and right the wrongs,
whether in the west or down under.

We gotta fight on the beaches,
We gotta fight on human grounds.
This time we gotta fight as human,
not as puppets to colonial clowns.

Fight as brave lions for sacred inclusivity,
not for saffronication as domesticated cows.
Fight for justice, rejuvenated by reason,
not for prejudice, decreed by apeman vows.

The Islam I live speaks of love,
The Islam I live is gentle as dove.
The Islam I live claims no convert,
The Islam I live warms all in hug.

The Islam I live transcends doctrine,
The Islam I live transcends the mosque.
The Islam I live holds no faith foreign,
The Islam I live finds good in every walk.

The Islam I live is a walking azaan,
living call to tolerance and acceptance.
Muslim poet am I, from the valley of love,
The Islam I live is the end of violence.

The Islam I live is an act of peace,
a promise of love, in a world of malice.

“Tolerance is the better name for divinity.”

“I accept the bible, but not nazism.
I accept the koran, but not islamism.
I accept the gita, but not hindutva.
I accept the torah, but not zionism.”

Where there is no muslim, non-muslim –
where there is no believer, non-believer –
where all distances are conquered by heart,
outgrowing myths one emerges Merhem-e Manavta.

Compulsion of religion is a thing of the past,
conversion of faith, trivial as changing clothes;
mark of a holy being is not belief, but behavior –
clothes, creed, all wither, not character’s glow.

Christian on Sunday, Atheist on Monday,
Buddhist on Tuesday, Sikh on Wednesday,
Hindu on Thursday, Muslim on Friday,
Jewish on Saturday, try the rest the next day.

Love speaks louder than faith,
kindness speaks louder than scripture.
Service is sanctity, my Eid al-Adha –
tolerance is my azaan, my Eid al-Fitr.

Godliness is measured by one’s capacity to disrupt cruelty, not comply with customs. Fanaticism is the real blasphemy, courage to confront it is real divinity.

I switch cultures like clothes,
I switch sciences like pens.
I switch scriptures like tides,
I switch languages like seasons.

Service of humanity is supreme shahada,
to defend the persecuted is cosmic khalsa,
to treat neighbor as god is real dharma,
quiet kindness is the real karma.

Ana al-haqq, ana al-hub –
aham bindu, aham brahmanda.
I shed dogma like dead skin,
el cosmos es mi casa.

In English we say:
all roads lead to Rome.
In Naskarian we say:
all roads lead to people.

In English we say:
lost sheep returns to the fold.
In Naskarian we say:
there’s divinity in diversity.

In English we say:
no man is an island.
In Naskarian we say:
Earth is an island,
our only shelter is each other.

Jai Insan, Chetna Sagar;
Jai Vivek, Vidyut Ujagar.
Rise Insan, Ilaaj Ilahi;
Al Hub, Hayat Paygamber.

Ik Onkar, Satnam Shahada;
One Insan Bodhi Vihara.
Born of Ash, Deed Amartya;
Once Ignited, Ashiq Ananta.

Vision Virat, Vajra Avinashi;
Kafir Kareem to Vidyesh Vinashi.
Unbent Akhanda in Realm Divided,
Dervish Divaane, Advaita Ruhani.

No hero, no charlatan saint,
no prophet out to herd a flock;
unhinged in duty, an unflinching flame,
I’m just a signpost on the cosmic clock.

Viva el humano, la cura para locura;
la verdad valiente ante miedo-mentira.
Persona es puente, el puente es la verdad;
corazón, mi razón – cerebro, mi arma.

Ek Insan, aur Ek Hi Lakshya,
Atut Asambhav, Nischal Nimagna;
Karma is action without agenda,
Dharma is duty without saffronmania.

By Karma we become Visvaroop,
No Dharma in Vanarvibhajan;
Sapiens stands Merhem-e Manavta,
Ananta knows no foreign-sanatan.

Ek Insan, Hoonkar-e Asmaan,
Khalsa in Veins, Noor-e Nadaan;
no togetherness, no tomorrow –
Awake, Arise, O Christly Insan.

Time is togetherness, time is memory;
benevolence before blood, life makes family.
What good is ape tradition and validation,
when time is my home, integration, my reality!

Monkeys pray monkeys to save them,
in danger human stands guard of humans;
when minister monkeys legislate lies as law,
it’s your cosmic duty to be Insan Armageddon!