Jahan Bakshi says it starts out with a ‘powerful premise’ but fails to live upto its potential:

Khuda Kay Liyealmost seems like a Pakistani ambassador to India- and that too with a message for peace- and it is with a broken heart and a weird sense of guilt (I almost feel as if I am being rude to a guest who has come to my house for the first time) that I say- truth be told, Khuda Kay Liye is not exactly a great film. Brave effort and noble attempt notwithstanding, the film is unquestionably a patchy effort, marred by didacticism and some limp performances. The film also gets tiresome after a point, and with its unnecessary and exhausting length of about 160 minutes, one is left desperately hoping for the film to end- for God’s sake, if little else.

Haseem recommends it as a ‘must watch’:

‘Khuda Ke Liye ‘is truly a splendid offering to the world of cinema. People may call it a Pakistani film but the film is truly international carrying a star cast which is a mix of Pakistani’s, Indians and Americans. The film also addresses an international subject; the state of Muslims all over the globe. The plot surely stems from within the dynamics of Pakistan and its rigid functional laws and ethos but the film truly makes a global mark.

Mirza Faisal likes some of the lines in the movie:

The best dialogues in the movie have been written for Maulana Wali and Naseeruddin Shah delivers them as good they could be. On Mariam taunting him that it does not matter whether he does his namaz before or after as it is just an exercise, he is amused and politely replies ‘meri ibaadat ko exercise kahne wali ya to bahut pahunchi hui hai ya bahut dukhi hai‘ (The one who describes my worship as exercise is either spiritually very elevated or is very sad). In the court he continues ‘deen me dadhi hai, dadhi me deen nahi‘…