Religious Harmony Quotes

“Truth is one, though

the sages

know it as many .

God is one, though

different

religions

approach

Him differently

Call Him Shiva, Vishnu, Allah, Jesus

or any other form of God that you believe

in .

Our paths may be different.

Our destination

is the same.”
― Amish Tripathi

“The greatest iftar is
to break the fast of apathy,
with the feast of affection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“What an irony in that their self-same God turns Jews, Christians and Muslims religiously antagonistic to each other and the pantheon of diverse Hindu deities unifies their respective devotees in sanatana dharma’s social fold!”
― BS Murthy

“I grew up celebrating Diwali, eating fruitcake on the 25th, and waking up to the call of azaan. If I'm devout anything, it's a devout human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Two Drops of Blood (Sonnet)

Pick a drop of blood from your finger,
pick a drop from another,
smudge it all on the palm of your hand -
now tell me, which is which -
which is heretic, which is believer -

which is the Christian blood,
which is the Muslim -
which is the faithful blood,
which is forbidden!

You always obsess over skin and bones,
but care the least for the life within –
wake up to life outside dead dogma, and you
can't tell one life from another, it's all one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Pick a drop of blood from your finger, pick a drop from another, smudge it all on the palm of your hand - now tell me, which is which - which is heretic, which is believer - which is the Christian blood, which is the Muslim - which is the faithful blood, which is forbidden!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“I am love, I am tolerance, I am what
bigoted monkeys mock as woke and DEI.
No matter what dogmatic primates believe,
prisons of doctrines are not my paradise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“What you believe or don't is of no consequence, one true god or another. Imaginary friends are often therapeutic, just don't thrust your friend on another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Keep god or not as you need,
convert to whatever you like.
There is no other grand design,
except a beautiful human mind.

What you believe or don't is of no
consequence, one true god or another.
Imaginary friends are often therapeutic,
just don't thrust your friend on another.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“The path of truth is the path of religion, but this path is not a christian path, a jewish path, a muslim path, a hindu path or any other kind of sectarian and tribal path. The path of truth, that is, the path of religion has no label of tribalism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, A Push in Perception

“Merhem-e Manavta (Sufi Sonnet)

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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Love speaks louder than faith, kindness speaks louder than scripture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Service is sanctity, my Eid al-Adha - tolerance is my azaan, my Eid al-Fitr.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“The sum of all theology is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“I fight for your right to religion, as madly as I fight for another's choice of not having religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Don't take a hammer to the pulpit, to defy those selling mindless creed, just don't visit, it's that simple - because vandalizing pulpits is just as fanatic as religious fanaticism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Don't take a hammer to the pulpit, to defy those selling mindless creed, just don't visit, it's that simple - because vandalizing pulpits is just as fanatic as religious fanaticism. Mocking faith doesn't end fanaticism, extremism doesn't cure extremism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“It’s no surprise that religious freedom in Pakistan has come at a heavy cost. The sacrifices of Shahbaz Bhatti and Salman Taseer have not only sanctified the struggle for religious liberty but have also elevated it from a basic right to a profound and solemn responsibility.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Religious freedom can only flourish when legal protections are reinforced by a societal commitment to shared humanity where differences are not merely tolerated but embraced as part of the national identity.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“At its core, religious freedom is the heartbeat of a nation, a vital force that pumps peace and harmony through the veins of society and yet millions are denied this essential grace, leaving both them and the state weakened and vulnerable.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“In Torquay, Devon, I sought not refuge but the strength to continue writing in tribute to those whose religious freedoms are denied and whose voices remain unheard.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“I have spent my life advocating for religious freedom, a cause that has brought me face to face with the heart-wrenching stories of victims of forced conversions, the misuse of blasphemy laws, and survivors of mob violence. I felt their pain as if it was my own.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Shahbaz Bhatti blood has not only baptized the cause of religious freedom but also marked the path toward religious freedom turning it from a right into a sacred responsibility.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Either raise your children with no religion or multiple religions, either raise your children with no culture or multiple cultures.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“With Love From A Muslim Poet (Sonnet 2451)

Love your neighbor,
more than you obey the state;
a world left to the whims of politicians,
doesn't take long to be a land of waste.

Nothing's easier than being an ape:
obey the tribal chief,
practice the state-approved religion,
and never love a neighbor
that your monkey king disapproves of -

but to be human takes heart, brain, and backbone,
three fundamental forces which invoke
the very ruin of political power,
for they pluck the apes from the cesspool of fear,
and elevate them to human consciousness,
which is adamantly allergic to primitive nonsense.

I am a muslim poet, yet I refuse
to hate my brother from another mother -
like many streams finally meet in the sea,
we are all born of nature and
ultimately disperse into nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“There’s not one religion but two, one is commercial religion, rooted in fear, prejudice and bigotry, and the other is lived religion, rooted in kindness and inclusivity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The atheist and the believer drink from the same water, breathe the same air, eat the same food – mother nature, the actual origin of life, doesn’t segregate between believer and nonbeliever, it’s only the savages who do that.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Why is it that, for one religion to be true, all other religions have to be false!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Wandering the earth as a monk scientist
I've understood one thing about converts -
people convert to christianity looking for bread,
people convert to hinduism looking for answers,
people convert to buddhism in search of freedom,
people convert to islam in order to heal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Live in peace within, and the world will mirror your clarity.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya