Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "sanctity"

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.

No literature is infallible, but while errors in scientific literature are proudly mended by later scientists, errors in religious literature are rarely mended – they are interpreted, reinterpreted, and justified in a million ways, but never questioned, as very few persons of faith have got the brain and backbone to acknowledge errors, let alone correct them – this is not holiness, it’s blindness most primitive.

Reverence without revision isn’t sanctity, it’s stagnation – and stagnation might feel honorous, but it leads to devolution. Just because it’s habit doesn’t make it holy – admission of error is the beginning of enlightenment.