Interfaith Quotes

“Awakening to faith is not a one-time event, but a continuously unfolding reality. The journey of faith is not a race, but a marathon of love that each person walks at a different pace.”
― A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam

“Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.”
― Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, The Religion of God

“Call me misafir, call me göçmen,
This heart of mine is always migrant.
Şan ve şöhrete ben muhtaç değilim,
Benim derdim dünya, dünya dermanım.

Call me gypsy, or call me refugee,
This heart of mine is always migrant.
I've got no use for silicon or gold,
World is my bane, world, my ointment.

So many tongues, as many names -
Some call agua, some call pani.
Conquer the tongue, spirit is the same -
Some dub it divine, I live as humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“World has no shortage of monkeys who want to christianize, islamize, zionize or saffronize the society, but humans who behave human are in short supply.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In a planet of apes there is place for only one culture, one language, one religion. In a planet of humans, tolerance is culture, compassion is language, choice is religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Pilgrim's Regress (Sonnet 2324)

Mirage mistaken as message,
when ethnic cleansing feels enlightened,
Sinai becomes septic,
Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.

Dogma decreed as divine,
when superstition feels highly sacred,
Vrindavan becomes a garbage dump,
Ayodhya becomes capital of savages.

When another's belief is delusion,
but our belief is religion,
Mecca becomes a pilgrimage of maniacs,
Damascus becomes ulcer to civilization.

The confidence of ignorance is always
louder than the confidence of knowledge.
Truth raises more questions than answers,
whereas lies are snugly, sure and doubtless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Patriot beyond nation,
religious beyond religion,
cultured beyond culture -
that's a complete human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Mundo Mi Monasterio
(Imanjali, Sonnet 2344)

Patriot beyond nation,
religious beyond religion,
cultured beyond culture -
that's a complete human.

Conscience is my CV,
Biodata, Bulldozer,
Revolution, my resume,
Citizenship, Earthistana.

Hindistan bana can verdi,
Amerika bana şan verdi,
Türkiye bana kalp verdi,
ve Dünya bana amaç verdi.

En sevdiğim kitap Mesnevi,
en sevdiğim şair Mevlana,
en sevdiğim dil Türkçe -
yinede derviş, şair, hepsi sonra,

öncelikle ben insan, iyilik benim iman;
mundo mi monasterio, annihilation my azan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Sonnet Shahada, 2345

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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I switch cultures like clothes,
I switch sciences like pens.
I switch scriptures like tides,
I switch languages like seasons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“We need a life-centric understanding of truth,
not truth-centric understanding of life -
we need a human-centric realization of divine,
not divine-centric realization of human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Life is nonbiblical, truth is nonbinary.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Religious beyond religion, cultured beyond culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“We need a human-centric realization of divine, not divine-centric realization of human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“When you are empty enough to hold others, you become whole for the first time.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In English we say:
all roads lead to Rome.
In Naskarian we say:
all roads lead to people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say:
lost sheep returns to the fold.
In Naskarian we say:
there's divinity in diversity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In English we say: no man is an island. In Naskarian we say: Earth is an island, our only shelter is each other.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Divine has no religion, nature has no nationality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“You may forget my name,
you may forget the year,
but you'll never forget my story,
you'll never forget which side I stood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“More you talk of scripture, less you understand the sacred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“My life is the experiment
I leave to the world;
neither failed, nor successful,
I am just a humanizing mutation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual, post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual, post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent. My roots go deep down to the core of earth, spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“My roots go deep down to the core of earth, spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Tierra Carta (Charter of Earth, S2498)

Nationality and religion are like blood groups,
it has no relation to human capacity and character,
despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories;
morons are found in every corner of the world,
just like mavericks are found in every corner.

The only difference between blood groups
and nationality is that, blood groups are
a fundamental factor of medical treatment,
whereas nationality and religion are
fleeting vestiges of an adolescent species.

I opened my eyes and couldn't find a single precedent
of post-national, post-religion, post-lingual,
post-cultural existence, so I became the precedent.

My roots go deep down to the core of earth,
spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“My roots run deep down to the core of earth, spread across the bones and marrow of the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Integration is divine by reason of poetry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop