Copyright 2000 by Matthew Fox. Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Hindus, Mussulmans, Brahmos, Saktas, Vaishnavas, Saivas all quarrel with one another. They haven t the intelligence to understand that He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Shakti, and that it is He, again, who is called Jesus and Allah.
People injure and kill one another, and shed blood, in the name of religion.
But this is not good. Everyone is going toward God. They will all realize him if they have sincerity and longing of heart. No other sacred text speaks as mw and as openly of the universality of religion as the Quran. Islam, the last of the religions of the present humanity, here joins with Hinduism, the first and most primordial of existing religions, in envisaging religion in its universal manifestation throughout the cycles of human history.