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

“Empathy first or wisdom first?
Empathy first, wisdom follows.

Ocean bigger or a drop of water?
Distance is the delusion.

Allah (God) first or Insan (Human) first?
Neither! Love comes first -
where there is love, God and Human are one.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“We all have our mad obsessions, some are obsessed with ending religion, so that only rationality remains, some are obsessed with converting everybody, so that only one religion remains, I'm obsessed with ending the walls, so that only humanity remains.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Religious fundamentalists, xenophobic nationalists, and militant atheists, are all cut from the same cloth, the cloth of cantankerous dogma, sometimes they come dressed in ceremonial religious garb, sometimes in aristocratic intellectual suits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“When you reach the mountaintop you no longer want to convert people, nor do you want to take away their god - in fact, erase any religion and any science that requires another human to be less human for you to be religious or scientific.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Earth is my clan, Humanity is my kin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Erase any religion and any science that requires another human to be less human for you to be religious or scientific.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“The Poet Idiot
(Sonnet 3138/ Song 2)

Some call me a dervish,
and some call advaitin.
All fight over garments,
and none cares for a human.

Some chained to the doctrine,
and some chained to equation.
Some just wanna prove god,
and some nonexistence.

Some say, I'm a sufi,
and some say, I'm a scientist.
Larger than a mountain,
yet smaller than an atom.

What good is a knife that is
all blade, and no handle!
What good is a brain that is
devoid of compassion!

Some call me a poet,
and some call me an idiot.
I just am a Human
igniting toleration.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I Don't Want Such Culture
(Sonnet 3201/ Song 4)

If my freedom hates another,
if my brain degrades another,
if my faith erase another,
if my progress thieves another,

if my culture kills another,
if my science shells another,
if my medicine bills another,
if my code surveils another,

if my scripture burns another,
if my flag tortures another,
if my crown converts another,
if my god butchers another -

I don't want such myths and manner,
I don't want such paradise planner,
I don't want such nuts and spanner,
I don't want such ritual murder -

I don't want such god and culture,
I am not some faithful vulture,
every person is my people,
every culture is my culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“That's why I've come, to drag spirituality down into the soil, and science down onto the streets - tea cup in one hand, cheeseburger in another, I have come, not to start a new religion, but to carry the rivers to the sea.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“If my freedom hates another,
if my faith erase another,
if my flag tortures another,
if my god butchers another -

I don't want such god and culture,
I don't want such ritual murder -
every person is my people,
every culture is my culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“God is the first and final call of love, living inside the four chambers of the heart, not behind the four walls of organized religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“History of music is teeming with love songs, religious songs, patriotic songs, nowadays even conspiracy songs - then why is it that tolerance, oneness, plurality, humanity have practically zero musical exposure! But never mind, Naskar is here.

For a while now I've wanted to include songs in the canon, but the formatting of a song felt too mechanical, all that hook, bridge, verse, chorus stuff, until I realized, why not burn the format altogether, like I did with the sonnets, and write it like any other Naskar sonnet, only a little more lyrical than usual.

Besides, after thousands of sonnets, it'd be a shame if I didn't leave behind at least a few hundred songs. Any art that lifts the human spirit is Naskar art, every science that lifts up society is Naskar science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Some chained to the doctrine,
and some chained to equation.
All fight over garments,
and none cares for a human.

What good is a knife that is
all blade, and no handle!
What good is a brain that is
devoid of compassion!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“History of music is teeming with love songs, religious songs, patriotic songs, nowadays even conspiracy songs - then why is it that tolerance, oneness, plurality, humanity have practically zero musical exposure! But never mind, Naskar is here.

After thousands of sonnets, it'd be a shame if I didn't leave behind at least a few hundred songs. No fancy equipment, no artificial garbage, written from naked mind, recorded in naked voice.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“I walk the line between fact and fiction, I inhabit the space between sane and insane, until you develop a mind capable of containing seemingly paradoxical ideas without collapsing, you are not ready to enter the Naskar garden - you can enter, but it'll all feel alien.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“United we are human,
divided we are apes -
only Virtue is Wholeness,
fragmentation makes undead;

tolerate no Xenophobe,
Young and old all get infected,
Zionists are temu adolf -
you stand human, vaccinated!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“I don't need a religious occasion to feel holy, every day inhabited by a human is sacred, every day is a celebration of the human spirit.

The day we learn to celebrate each other, instead of fixating on fairytales in the sky, that day we'll be holy, that day we'll be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“To label oneness is to disable oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“If you can't find Mevla (God) in Leyla (Love), you're not religious, only brainwashed - only Mejnun (Mad in Love) is religious, all others are brainwashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“In the eyes of the truly holy, there is no false religion and true religion, there are only many mirrors to one light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Dervish in the monastery,
sanyasi in the dargah,
or is it the other way around -
language is a paradoxical obstacle to love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Dervish in the monastery,
sanyasi in the dargah,
or is it the other way around -
language is a paradoxical obstacle to love.

I speak of one love, yet I have to translate
it in a million languages to make billions
realize that I speak of the same thing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Har Vatan Mera Vatan "Dervish Advaita Song"

Dharm se nahi, karm se hum
baney khudh hi Vishwaroop.
Sab se upar sach hai Insan,
reeti rivaaz andha jhooth.

Na hi sarhad, na hi sanskar,
dil me sirf Insaniyat.
Rashtrabhakti dar ka dhandha,
bhed bhao haivaniyat.

Na koi dev aur na hi daasi,
na koi kafir, na hi santh.
Har deewar ijaad siyasi,
moksh matlab man akhand.

Har vatan mera vatan,
aur ashiqui kanuniyat.
Har wajood mitti se banta,
boond boond roohaniyat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Ape religion count the converts,
ape democracy count the corpse;
tear the walls of "holy see",
for every heart is seat of God.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“To say one faith is true and all the others are false, is like calling one language true, and all the others are noise.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Be warrior like a Sikh,
be gentle like a Jain,
be resilient like a Palestinian,
be magnetic like a Muslim,
be unyielding like a Black,
be kind like Jesus,
be wise like Siddhartha,
be earthy like a Hindu,
and last but not the least,
be antizionist and antinazi
like a proper Jew -

not a wellgroomed ape recruit
of the Fourth Reich,
be a proper Human,
my Azad Earth Insan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Naskar is the first instinct of planet before the tribe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“My voice and yours 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.

Carry the brain as engine,
carry the backbone as battery,
wear your heart on your chest
as the compass of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer