Thank you very much for this wonderful piece on Ayah Pin and his Sky Kingdom . What Malaysia, and the world at large, needs is more such genuine non-political people with no vested interests and hidden agendas in the dissemination of religious knowledge.

If God wanted all of humankind to be of one race and religion, I am sure he could achieve this by in a wink of an eye! Obviously that was not the case, and all religions and races exist by His mercy.

That being the case, and when almost all religions do not make their following a compulsion, why then are there judges and self-proclaimed religious masters trying to say that the God of one religion is not the same as the God of another?

Why do we always harp on the superiority of one race and religion over the others. Herein lies the basic problem with us today. Why can't we accept that different cultures and different races refer to the one and only God by whatever name they are familiar with?

If a watermelon is a tembikai in Malay, a terboos in Hindi and a sai kuah in Cantonese, why can't God also be known by a million names? Why should our children be taught that other religions don't worship the same God as us, but another entity altogether?

Religion to me is a sacred connection between me and my Maker. He and only He will be my judge. How I pray, how many times I pray, what I wear or what I don't wear, should be my business with my God, and not the business of the government of the day or some 'holier than thou' political party.

Let everyone profess whatever religion he wants and be at peace without fear of persecution and prosecution. Let there be free intermarriage among God's children without this fear of conversion and apostasy. This will result in a solid Malaysian race which doesn't practice double standards.

In Ayah Pin's Sky Kingdom, we see Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and others sitting together and praying to the same one God in different ways. Do you think God is going to say I am only going to accept so-and-so's prayer and reject the rest? I don't think so.

Strange. It takes an illiterate man like Ayah Pin to teach us some basic truths which we need in this time and age. All our Prophets and saints were also illiterate, weren't they? Small wonder.