Hindu and Muslims kids recite ‘Gayatri Mantra’ along with Quran under one roof at a madrasa in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.
Hindu can refer to either a religious or cultural identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems. In common use today, it refers to an adherent of Hinduism. The word "Hindu" has been used in places to denote persons professing any religion originated (i.e. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism or Sikhism). Further, the terms Hindu or Hindi are also used as a cultural identity to denote people living on the other side of the Indus river, thus poets like Iqbal, ministers like M.C.Chagla and organisations like the RSS used the terms Hindu and Hindi to represent any person living south and east of the Indus river, irrespective of religion. A Muslim, sometimes spelled Moslem, relates to a person who follows the religion of Islam, a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion based on the Quran. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
