One of the greatest
causes of the differences and conflicts in this world is the unity of
truth and the varieties of names and terms. Truth is one and the same
everywhere, but it has various dresses. Our misfortune is that the world
worships 'terms' and not their meanings. Thus though all may worship the
same truth, they will quarrel on account of differences of terms...If
all the curtains due to external forms and terminologies could be
removed and Reality were to appear before us unveiled, all the religious
differences of this world would suddenly vanish and all quarrelsome
people would see that their object was the same, though it had different
names.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |