There is no god but He, the all mighty and all wise.

There is no god but He, the mighty and all wise.

A razana (ancestor) might appear to one of his or her descendants in a dream or in a vision, complaining of cold and promising to impart blessings upon the lives of his or her relatives. This is why the Malgasy reopen their family members' tombs and replace the shrouds covering the remains of the dead.

We provide offerings of ohagi (rice cakes) to our ancestors with hagi the flower (Japanese clover).

Contemporary Koreans or Japanese remain fully Korean or Japanese but are closer to a Westerner than they would be to their own ancestors.

Farmers today use technology not available to their forebears, to maximise yields from their crops and livestock.

At the end of the festival, many families send off their visiting ancestors aboard floating paper lanterns released onto a river or into the ocean.

Anthropologists have noted that worship is a universal urge, hardwired by God into the very fiber of our being, an inbuilt need to connect with God.

Such form of communication can be linked to smoke signals and drums used by our ancestors thousands of years ago.

Coupled with persistent shortages of priests, the worship of saints in Latin America became more embedded in the region s culture than in that of Europe.

But those who disdain and who boast will receive a painful punishment.

You alone we worship, and to You alone turn for help.

So melanin was recruited, in our lineage, and specifically in our earliest ancestors evolving in Africa, to be a natural sunscreen.

Another warrior, centuries before, became a symbol of divine protection Saint George, who corresponds, in mythology, to the Orixá of armies and warriors.

All you can find are newsreaders from national television covering the smiling faces of people who come back to Hongdong to seek their roots and pay homage to their ancestors.

Since this was an untimely invocation of the Goddess, the Durga Puja conducted by Ram is also termed as akalbodhan (out of turn untimely worship).

Say Vile is your belief if you are believers indeed!

God there is no god but He, the living, eternal, self subsisting, ever sustaining.

Surely God is my Lord, and your Lord, so worship Him and this is the right path.

Would he order you disbelief after you have submitted (and accepted the law of God)?

The period of seven days surrounding the Autumnal equinox is known as O Higan, when we pay our respects to the ancestors and remember the departed.

It s all there in the heads of our grandparents who could barely read or write it s there in the civilisations that our ancestors came from which we have been taught to scorn.

God There is no god but He. He will gather you together on the Day of Resurrection which is certain to come and whose word is truer than God's?

And Abraham left this legacy to his sons, and to Jacob, and said O my sons, God has chosen this as the faith for you.

Your God is one God there is no god other than He, the compassionate, ever merciful.

Fight them till sedition comes to end, and the law of God (prevails).

God is witness there is no god but He, and so are the angels and men full of learning. He is the upholder of justice.

And those who disdain to serve Him and are proud (should remember) that they will all go back to Him in the end.

You can be sure that, this time next year, they will be paying homage to their ancestors, as they tramp over the ground where child slaves were buried alive for daring to proclaim their humanity.

God There is no god but He, the living, eternal, self subsisting, ever sustaining. Neither does somnolence affect Him nor sleep.