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

“Soul that is kind is soul divine,
Mind segregated is most unholy kind.
Helping the helpless is holiness alive,
Day of the living is day of the divine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Season of love and peace transcends ethnicity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Rahmat is an act of azan, Rahmat is what makes us holy. When Rahmat and Azan manifest as one, that's the beginning of Ramazan, Christmas and Deepavali.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“The God Undelusion, Sonnet

God is the greatest undelusion of all,
but only when you find it in the living,
while it's the desecrator of lives, when
you revere or refute from either extreme.

God is like Schrodinger's cat,
one moment it's there, the next it's not -
all depends on the state of mind -
there's no divine outside human eyes.

I see my God in people,
in their happiness God smiles.
Obliterate people from the world,
and you exterminate God like termite.

World is my church, the persecuted are my deity.
God faith is interfaith, human welfare is my priority.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“God faith is interfaith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“World is my church, the persecuted are my deity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“World is my church, the persecuted are my deity. God faith is interfaith, human welfare is my priority.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Beyond Evidence and Ignorance
(Monk Scientist Sonnet)

I'm sorry, I cannot live a single cultural,
single lingual, single scriptural existence.
I want all the cultures and languages,
I want all the scriptures and sciences.

I am the epitome of reason founded on love,
beyond the grasp of either establishment.
I don't need to be popular in either cult,
I live as lamp to the world not another lamb.

I am a scientist aware of facts,
I also accept faith as a right.
My struggle is again't intolerance,
not to pamper either side's narrow sight.

I once set out as a monk, that journey has
kept the scientist grounded in tolerance.
My truth is love, not belief or disbelief,
not coldened by evidence or blinded by ignorance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“The Naskar Code (Sonnet)

Kainat** is my qaum*,
Universe is my aum.
Carrying **cosmos in my chest,
every *community is my home.

Sat* is my nam-e,
*Honesty, my identity.
I am the one who is,
reflection of all humanity.

Bodhi* and dharma** are key to life,
lifting us high above the animals.
*Awareness wakes us to divine vision,
**Duty is the seed of civilization.

Valley of life is without elite divide,
Science, philosophy, divine, all are one.
Scientist, Poet, Dervish, or Philosopher,
Adjectives though plenty, noun is but one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Kainat** is my qaum*,
Universe is my aum.
Carrying **cosmos in my chest,
every *community is my home.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Tolerance is the better name for divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Every culture is my culture, every country is my country.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“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.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“God faith is interfaith,
God dimension is love dimension.
God element is heart element,
God religion is integration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“My truth is love, not belief or disbelief. Prejudice is the root of all persecution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“First sign of divinity is a tolerant heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“No belief is more holy than tolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Hz. Isa (Jesus), Hz. Mevlana, or Hz. Naskar - the message comes in many forms, but the message itself is one and the same - it's the message of love, not hate - it's the message of assimilation, not dissimilation - it's the message of peace, not pieces.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“God is tolerance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“All Roads Lead to People (Sonnet)

What the world needs is character,

character civilized enough to
prioritize benevolence over borders,
awake enough to tell right from wrong,
and not kowtow to cannibal ancestors,

alive enough to value first the welfare of
the living over the last wishes of the dead,
human enough to identify as human, beyond
the gaslighting spell of prejudiced fairytales.

What burns the bigots most is
an unbending flame of inclusion,
what the world needs is character,
radiant with loving assimilation.

All roads spring from people,
and they lead back to the people.
Whenever we deviate from each other,
we are bound to end back in the jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“All roads spring from people, and they lead back to the people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“All roads spring from people,
and they lead back to the people.
Whenever we deviate from each other,
we are bound to end back in the jungle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“My life is neither faith based nor fact based, my life is love based.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“To me faith, science, poetry, all same, many lanes to lift our one humankind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“When you stand in front of a person, empty your cup and stand as a mirror. Let them pour all their hopes and dreams, their passions, their purpose, their tragedies, their triumphs, their culture, their language, everything - let them pour everything that they are, into you. Become so profoundly empty of yourself, that everyone can see themselves in you - become a mirror to the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Every corner of earth
has added to my flight,
erase any one community,
and you diminish my light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Black is brave,
Woman is wonder,
Muslim is magnetic,
Asian is thunder.

Prejudice is plunder,
Biases are blunder.
Hate wreaks havoc,
when hearts are asunder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“True festival of life unfolds when all usher into oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood