The document provides excerpts from various religious texts that discuss themes of light, knowledge, and moving from darkness to light or ignorance to enlightenment. The excerpts are from Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh scriptures and texts. They discuss concepts like seeking knowledge and enlightenment, following the path of righteousness, and God or divine figures guiding believers from darkness to light.

1. I had a Dream!
EMPHASIS
E. M. Rafique

2. An Olive Tree
Growing in a rocky
desert terrain
Yet able to tap water
Appeared gnarled,
twisted
Hundred year old trees

3. Olive Fruit
The Trees Bear Olive
fruit
Pressed for Olive oil

4. Olive oil & Lamp
Oil: best for body and for lighting

5. Light and Knowledge
Light and Darkness
Day and Night
Knowledge and
Ignorance
Spirit and Body
Good and Evil
Activity and Rest
Life and Death

6. Let there be Knowledge
Then Jesus said unto
them, Yet a little while
is the light with you.
Walk while ye have
the light, lest
darkness come upon
you: for he that
walketh in darkness
knoweth not whither
he goeth.
John XII,

7. TAMASO MA JYOTIR
GAMAYA
असतो मा सदमय Lead Us From the Unreal
तमसो मा जयोितगमय ग To the Real,
मतयोर ् मा अमतं गमय
ृ ृ Lead Us From Darkness To
Light,
ॐ शांित शांित शांित -
बहदारणयक उपििषद
ृ Lead Us From Death To
1.3.28. Immortality,
OM (the universal sound of
God)
Let There Be Peace, Peace,
Peace.
- Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad 1.3.28.

8. GAYATRI MANTRA
ॐ भूभव॒ ॒ सव॒ ॒
ुग O God! You are Omnipresent,
ततस॑िवतुवरे॑ णयम ्
Omnipotent and Almighty,
ग You are all Light.
भ॒ गो॑ दे॒वसय॑ धीमिह। You are all Knowledge and
िधय॒ ो यो ि॒॑ Bliss.
पच॒ ोदया॑त॥ ् You are Destroyer of fear,
You are Creator of this
Universe,
You are the Greatest of all.
We bow and meditate upon
Your light.
You guide our intellect in the
right direction.

9. From Darkness to Light
Allah is the Protector of those who have faith: from
the depths of Darkness, He will lead them forth
into light. Of those who reject faith the patrons
are the evil ones: from light they will lead them
forth into the depths of Darkness. They will be
companions of the fire, to dwell therein (For
ever).
( Holy Quran ‫ , سورة البقرة‬Al-Baqara, Chapter #2,
Verse #257)

10. Seeking knowledge is my religion!
So long as man clamours for the I and Mine, his
works are naught;
When all love of the I and Mine is dead, then the
work of the Lord is done,
For work has no other aim, than getting
knowledge,
When that comes, the work is put away.
The flower blooms for the fruit, when the fruit is
borne the flower withers,
The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within
itself, it wanders in quest of grass.- Kabir Das

11. First Sermon of Buddha (Enlightened One)
And what, monks, is the middle path, by which
the one who has thus come has gained enlightenment,
which produces knowledge and insight,
and leads to peace, wisdom, enlightenment, and nirvana?
This is the noble eightfold way, namely,
correct understanding, correct intention,
correct speech, correct action, correct livelihood,
correct attention, correct concentration,
and correct meditation.

12. Mathew XXV 1-7
1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which
took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
3. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
5. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
7. But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
9. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
11. And at midnight there was a cry made, ‘Behold, the bridegroom
cometh; go ye out to meet him’.
13. Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

13. Mathew XXV 8-13
1. And the foolish said unto the wise, ‘Give us of your oil; for our lamps are
gone out’.
3. But the wise answered, saying, ‘Not so; lest there be not enough for us and
you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves’.
5. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready
went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
7. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us’.
9. But he answered and said, ‘Verily I say unto you, I know you not’.
11. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son
of man cometh.

14. Verse of Light
‘God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The
similitude of His light is a niche in which there is
a lamp. The lamp is in a Glass, the Glass, like a
glistening star, kindled from a blessed olive tree,
neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil well
nigh glows though no fire has touched it: light
upon light. God guides to His light whom He
wills, and God strikes parables for human
beings, and God knows all things.’
- Qur’an 24:35 AN-NOOR

15. AT-Tahrim 66: 8
O ye who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere
repentance: In the hope that your Lord will
remove from you your ills and admit you to
Gardens beneath which Rivers flow,- the Day
that Allah will not permit to be humiliated the
Prophet and those who believe with him. Their
Light will run forward before them and by their
right hands, while they say, "Our Lord! Perfect
our Light for us, and grant us Forgiveness: for
Thou hast power over all things."