Ek hai Ishwar - (Quran Manthan)

Sab nar karahi paraspar priti,

Chalahi swadharma nirat shruti niti.

Let all human beings love one another, let all human beings follow their own religion. The world becomes beautiful to live in when all men are tied together by mutual love and understanding. The great poet Tulsidas in the Ramcharitmanas gives us a message.

The Holi Quran, the word descended on the Prophet is in no way different from what Tulsidas sings.

Lakum Dinakum Wali-ya-deen i.e. thou follow thy own religion, I will follow my own. All the religion of the wold teach love and karma.

'God is one' (The Quran Manthan) is a selection of 786 from the 10000 verses poetically rendered by the author as inspired by the Holy Book in layman's language and in Indian Perspective.

The work will strengthen the ties of love and mutual understanding and make true the dream of peace.

About the Author: Pandit Mustafa Arif, a graduate in Ancient History and Culture, was born at Ratlam India, chose Ujjain India, a centre of culture and literature as his field of work.

He is a well known journalist who started his career at age of 12. He has been associated with the renowned journals of India. He is a poet also and his two collections of poetry have appeared. One of the collections was released by AB Vajpayee.

His broadness of heart brought him in live contact with the various religion's spiritual leaders. He recreated beautifully the verses of the Holy Quran in the Hymn in language of common people (Hindustani).

The world renowned Muscian AR Rahman appreciated Mustafa's work and is making up his mind to put in music from Hymn of 42 verses inspired by Sure Rehman of Quran. The title Pandit was bestowed upon him in 1992, Sinhastha.