She faced criticism on social media for posting the photo with the Hindu God.
Captioned: "Ganpati Bappa Morya! May Ganeshji remove all your obstacles, and fill your year with laughter, positivity and success. Happy Ganesh Chaturthi", the image did not go down well with several users, who claimed the actress is Muslim and should stick to Islam.
A user wrote on the comment section: "Why don't you change your name from Sara to Sara(swati) or something and then worship all the gods..."
"I though you are Muslim," another taunted.
"Please accept Hinduism," said another.
"Please Saraji behave yourself you are a Muslim so... please don't do this again," another taunted.
One said that a "Fatwa" needs to be issued against Sara. "Shame on you if you are Khan then don't change god," a user said.
However it was very pleasing to see also the fans coming out in her support and particularly some muslims raising their voice defending her.
A muslim fan wrote a powerful message hitting at the ones who objected to Sara was praying to a Hindu God, saying - "Those uneducated Muslims peoples who are commenting here , first of all I want to tell u all that u don't deserve to be in Islam religion [middle finger emoji] tum jese ******** ******* k wajah se humare desh k ache log suffer karte hein , ********* , ********* ho tum log sab , saale tum jese Muslims k wajah se Islam Ka naam kharap hai , saale ye Soch badlo nai to Mera request pehli fursat Mai ******** Pakistan chale jao nai to log ******* marke Rakh denge"
Another fan wrote- "don't be negative i am also a muslim she is just respecting other's religion bcz every religion has its own respect and that's fair"
(With inputs added in IANS copy)