Sara Ali Khan has been raised in a secular home. Her father Saif Ali Khan is a Muslim, her mother Amrita Singh is half-Sikh and half-Muslim (she converted to Islam upon marriage to Saif) and her grandmother was a Hindu before marriage. 

Religion has definitely played a part in her upbringing and it shows.

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She believes in practising every religion and celebrates all festivals with equal zeal. Her Instagram photos are filled with her visiting Vaishno Devi, celebrating Christmas, reading namaz and praying at a gurudwara. 

She is one of the few celebrities who makes a strong case for what secularism truly stands for.  

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The actress is currently on a vacation in Kashmir and while her fans and followers were expecting some scenic views and pictures of her drinking kahwah or telling a knock-knock joke on the shikhara ride, they got something more beautiful and wholesome.

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She posted some pictures from her Kashmir trip where she visited four different places of worship. 

She shared pictures of her visiting a temple, a gurdwara, posing in front of a church and tying the mannat ka dhaga in a mosque.

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She wrote in the caption, “Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast, Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast. If there is a paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this. Sarv Dharm Sambhav” which translates to “All religions are the same” or “All path's lead to the same destination” 

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Her heartwarming pictures moved fans and many lauded the actress for demonstrating what being a citizen of a secular country should look like. 

A user wrote, “My respect for you has seriously increased. The way you treat all religions as one brings me contentment Sarv Dharm Sambhav indeed.” 

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Another user wrote, “Don’t know you personally but can see such a beautiful person you are!! Doesn’t matter what race , religion or caste we r born in , at the end of the day the truth is that we were created by same God and gonna go back to the same.!! Big applaud to your parents too the way they raised you [sic].”

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This is incredibly beautiful and something we can all learn from.

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