Mission World Peace

This article is for sharing with you my discussion with a person a friend rather, of different religion. He has different fundamentals in life ....still there was something common.

He being a Muslim and I a Hindu was not a hurdle at all in being friends. After all everyone is tolerant in Cosmopolitan cities. Even if in rare cases you are not, you show it superficially, you won't admit it, but won't be able to deny it either.

I shall not sugar coat the truths here. I shall be honest with you. At a very very blunt level.

We both are Indian and right now are in Gulf.

It is not that he was the first Muslim I have met. I have met many, but with no one I could ever have discussion on subjects on which we shared our thoughts.

Not to our surprise there are many things which are common in both the religion. Both of us are not religious of same type. One of us is God Fearing and the other is God Loving . One of us believes in a particular thing because it is written in the holy scripture and is proud about the fact that slowly but steadily Science is proving whatever is written in it is correct. And the other believes it when it is proven by Science and the common logic - that what is mentioned in his holy scriptures is correct, he researches till he finds an explanation for it and then feels proud about it and follows it.

I am not mentioning who does it which way, because you won't relate the person with it, but his religion. We both definitely are not the Muslim Religion or the Hindu religion, we just follow it.

And talk about it as we have understood about it.

So cannot say this is what is written in my Vedas or his Quran, but we are intellectual enough to know that our point of view is dependent on our own understanding of what we have read or it shall be cascaded with understanding of the person from whom we have listened/learned about it.

So while discussing we came up with many similarities. I would not be wrong in saying everything was same, but for the language used.
How could it be different? It should be same as... God is only one.

We both are not the experts of our Scriptures but know very well that no religion, absolutely no religion can be good or bad. Religion is about love.
But still we had differences. We are still just another human :-D

The ways he practiced it & I practice are totally different as mentioned earlier.

The points on which he strongly believed as per his religion I found them very Hippocratic and same was in his case when I spoke about my point of view.

For both of us it was a conscious fight with self to not counter attack the other with reference from the scriptures and start the "mine is better than yours" thing. It was easy to make out from our faces though.

We just kept it inside us and moved on.

But there was one thing in common that we shared.

We both know that today's world is misusing the religion. And that is the cause route of all problems.

If all the Muslims followed the Quran Honestly, if all the Hindus followed the Vedas with proper understanding, the so called modernization would not kill the culture which we pride so much. There would not be any fights.

We both understand that, irrespective of whichever religion we follow, if we live with religion as our support system or basis this place would be a good place to live.

At this moment I understood what was the common thing bonding us. In spite of the fundamental differences we have in our line of thought, our approach towards God, towards life, was not same but was aiming at same direction. We believe and trust in God. And feel sick about the fact that majority are away from it.

And today people like him and me are rare. That is why it feels good to meet a person like him .

It would be definitely wonderful if you could keep the Holy Scriptures (Bible, Quran & Vedas) as basis or backbone of anything you do in your life.
What the world needs and is knowingly or unknowingly searching for is - INNER PEACE

Khalil Gibrans writings shall show you how beautiful the Muslim Religion is.
Pls read "THE PROPHET" in his works... it is beautiful.
KHALIL GIBRAN's THE PROPHET
This was something very new to me.