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

“Jashn-e Inquilab, Sonnet 2600
(Revolution Festivities)

When there is order, but no justice,
when there is faith, but no goodness,
when there is brain, but no benevolence,
when there is custom, but no consciousness -

when machines behave like people,
but people behave like vegetable,
when governments shelter more
lunatics than lunatic asylums -

when ICE age looms early,
terrorizing life and liberty,
when disparity is packaged as prosperity,
and cowardice is the standard of society -

let the festivities of revolution commence,
breaking the fast of convenient apathy -
I am the Imperishable Force of Oneness,
I am Iftar, I am Noel, I am Jashn-e Justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I am the Imperishable Force of Oneness, I am Iftar, I am Noel, I am Jashn-e Justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Let the festivities of revolution commence,
breaking the fast of convenient apathy –
I am the Imperishable Force of Oneness,
I am Iftar, I am Noel, I am Jashn-e Justice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Oneness is my legacy, pages are just vessel.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“One drop of kindness contains the cosmos.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Don't ask, is there a god, ask instead, are you human? All my life’s work is for the human, who is more concerned with human uplift than belief or disbelief.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“In religion I was born, in religion I'll die, but my religion is not of the books, rather love of the world. To me, writing religion is like going home. At home I'm holiness, in holiness I'm home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“I too am a believer,
a believer in life over afterlife,
a believer in choice over creed.
I too am a creationist -
I am the creation, and the creator is me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I have no law, but life -
I have no edict, but empathy.
I have no creed, but conscience -
I am the vow of mad inclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Humanity is the festival,
occasions are garments,
love is my homeland,
heart is my parliament.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Humanity is the festival, occasions are garments.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Ramadan is the remedy for apathy,
Christmas is the cure for animosity,
Hanukkah is the antithesis of tyranny,
Diwali is the antidote to atrocity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Religion Engine (Sonnet 2597)

Go to any church, any mosque,
any temple, and one thing
you're sure to find is,
not God, but people.

And that has always been
the real point of religion,
people recharging people,
people resurrecting people,
people consoling people,
people sheltering people -

because at the center of religion,
there is not God, but people.

The battery of religion is people,
the engine of religion is people,
the path of religion is people,
the destination of religion is people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Go to any church, any mosque, any temple, and one thing you're sure to find is, not God, but people. And that has always been the real point of religion, people recharging people, people resurrecting people, people consoling people, people sheltering people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The battery of religion is people, the engine of religion is people, the path of religion is people, the destination of religion is people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The Earthistana Anthem
(Sonnet 2570-2574)

I was born without lineage,
without a holy claim -
no prophet in my pocket,
no empire to my name.

But I rose from the ruins
of the borders they drew,
and I learned from the ashes
what a human can do.

The world was carved with lies,
with flags of hate and fear -
but the pulse of integration
kept pulling me near.

So I wrote my own scripture
with the ink of equality -
no one is a stranger,
one people are we.

Raise your heart like a banner,
tear the hatred apart -
every life is revolution,
every breath is an art.

Pilgrims of the heart,
children of no throne -
the world is our home,
the duty is my own.

No God above the human,
no border in the mind -
tolerance is our anthem,
we are the humankind.

I've seen temples feed on fear,
graves labeled as pride -
I've seen nations crowned
with glory, yet cruelty inside.

But I've also seen a stranger
share their only bread,
and in that tiny gesture,
every scripture was said.

We are the dawn that we seek,
let the dread of dark retire -
we are the rebels of empathy,
our ammunition nerve fiber.

Let the world's wounded pages
be rewritten by you -
with the ink of courage,
with the rainbow of truth.

Let us lift the fallen,
heal the fractures of fate -
every act of kindness,
makes tyranny evaporate.

From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,

when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred -
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.

Pilgrim of the heart,
oneness in our vein -
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.

Shortcircuit the convention,
surpass all claim to fame -
let us enhance, not reduce each other,
so the world becomes humane.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“From monastery bells
to the muezzin's call,
from the wailing walls
to the city hall,
when our voices combine,
the soil becomes sacred -
the only holy nation
is the one without hatred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The only holy nation is the one without hatred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Pilgrim of the heart,
oneness in our vein -
love is the revolution,
Human is the name.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Comparison will either make you feel superior or inferior. Neither honors God.”
― Fatima Rabihi

“Human is the bridge, and bridge is the truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I lived my duty,
now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I am the genre.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Go Burn My Verses (Sonnet 2636)

Burn the verses, I'll write fiction -
burn the fiction, I'll write music -
burn the music, I'll adopt a new language -
burn the language, I'll pick up paintbrush -
burn the paintbrush, I'll grab a soldering iron.

Take away one medium, I'll adopt a new one,
apes don't have the braincells to sabotage my mission.
The only unstoppable organism in the universe,
is the mind that embraces evolution over limitation.

You keep asking, how do I write so immense -
I keep asking, where's the off switch for this!
Every time I decide to take a breather,
ideas start pouring, so I keep typing restless.

You're welcome to burn all my verses,
still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.
Today I'm Naskar, tomorrow another -
truth will find a postman, across time and space.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“You're welcome to burn all my verses, still you cannot dampen the spark of oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I'm Noel, I'm Iftar - I'm oneness, I'm Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is no law, only I am -
no grand design, no master clan -
no sacred script, no chosen land,
only beating hearts and helping hands.

I'm Noel, I'm Iftar -
I'm oneness, I'm Naskar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock