The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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All the disharmony of the world caused by religious differences is the result of humankind's failure to understand that religion is One, truth is One, and God is One; how can there be two religions?
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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As religion is the connection between the human being and God, and as that connection designates unity, there is no room for two connections. Whatever be one's relation toward God, it is a single relation and a singular relation. One can no more foist that relation on another than one can make one's parents the parents of another. To each soul God may appear different, but it is the appearance which is unique, not the reality. All we can understand is that appearance. As God appears to us so shall we understand God, but neither can we give to another our eyes, our mind, nor our heart. These things distinguish us one from another and cause the apparent differences in religion, which are nothing but these different points of view in their appearances as different religions.