One observation that I have to make here is that there appears to be one unifying factor for large numbers of people of all religions today…They have imbibed the ‘ritual’ part and either discarded or do not bother to find out about the ‘essence’ at all…If they did, I think people would never fight over religion, because no faith, as far as I know, advocates hatred for those who follow a different one…

For instance, if we assume that the Guru Granthh Sahib constitutes education of up to the level of a Graduate degree, I think I am still in Kindergarten. However, when I look around, I find that most people, including many of those who count themselves among the ‘devout’, are still nearly illiterate in terms of the way of life that the Granthh Sahib advocates! It does not make me feel proud of myself, for humility is among the most basic values that I have imbibed from reading the scriptures. On the contrary, it makes me feel sad and I wish that more people would read carefully, try to comprehend and incorporate into their lives, as much as they can of all that the Guru Granthh Sahib has to tell us about life and the way it should be lived, apart from simply bearing the external symbols and following the rituals that identify them as followers of the Sikh faith.

If I am not wrong, I believe an analogy can be drawn here and that is, more or less, the sentiment that Raza is trying to convey, through this post, to those who follow, or, at least, claim to follow, Islam, besides the world at large that may, at times, tend to percieve Islam in a narrow sense.