Although the universality of faiths is not the subject of this poem, I believe it to be a beautiful example of such universality. All religions, as they say, are doors to the same house.
It reads to Western ears like a Christian verse, but the following is excerpted from a poem by the 18th century Persian Muslim Sayyid Ahmad Hatif of Isfahan:
In the heart of each atom which though cleavest thou wilt behold a sun in the midst.
If though givest whatever thou hast to love, may I be accounted an infidel if though shouldst suffer a grain of loss!...
Thou wilt pass beyond the narrow straits of dimensions, and wilt behold the spacious realms of the Placeless;
Thou shalt hear what ear hath not heard, and shalt see what eye hath not seen;
Until they shall bring thee to a place where, of the world and its people, though shalt behold One alone.
To that One though shalt give love with heart and soul, until with the eye of certainty thou shalt clearly see that
"He is One and there is naught but he;
There is no God save Him alone!"
Found on page 421 of Rousseau And Revolution, Volume X of The Story of Civilization by Will & Ariel Durant
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