Sunday, June 06, 2010

How we talk to God and what it says about us

What is the appropriate way of communicating with God? Indians talk to God in the first person. Just as we address our mother, we also use the familiar tu or tum with him. This is true also of Muslims, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan qualifies his praise of God in the song Allah Hoo by saying: “Tu hi meray Muhammad ka Khuda hai (because you are the God of my Muhammad)”. Though the English language does not have such hierarchy, the word used to address God, “Thou”, is Indo-European and derived from tu.

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