Art: If the object of poetry is, to
make men, then poetry is the heir of
prophecy.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another
time
and space as well.
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and
they
will throw thee on glass.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two,
whose
wage is the long nights of the grave.
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny
like
the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the
unbeliever.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious
tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk
away
With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic
artistry.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood
coursing
in the veins of the moon.
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my
life to
careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and
its
literature.
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in
the
best interest of India and Islam.
If
faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does
not
adhere to religion.
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a
rational
foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe
around
him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by
adjusting himself to its forces, now
by putting the whole of his energy to his
own ends and purposes.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the
might of the self.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the
hands
of politicians.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to
be
ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought
becomes a method of converting men
into animals.
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a
concrete type of mind.
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only
bound
to the Divine order.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from
matter
to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by
its
flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast
apart,
that I may hang This mirror in your
sight.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom
by
approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God
just
as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system
of
concepts mutually related to one
another and having no reference to
experience
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act
of
prayer.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings
him to
the cemetery.
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee,
thou art
not for the world.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of
the
shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a
lasting
culture.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning
from
the heart, it becomes poetry.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which
is
satisfied with being a slave?
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy
with
the thought: Where will be my end?
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in
the hands of politicians."
"Death does not exist. It is
life that is a predominant reality, not death."
"People who have no hold over
their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If
thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into
animals."
"Death does not exist. It is
life that is a predominant reality, not death."
"People who have no hold over
their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If
thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into
animals."
"Given character and healthy
imagination, it is possible to reconstruct this world of sin and misery into a
veritable paradise."
"I tell you the sign of a
believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips."
"It is time that I reopen the
tavern of Rumi: the shaikhs of the Kaaba are lying drunk in the courtyard of
the church.."
"Become dust - and they will
throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass."
"Words, without power, is mere
philosophy."
"When truth has no burning, then
it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry."
"Why should I ask the wise men:
Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the
"Islam is itself destiny and
will not suffer destiny."
"If faith is lost, there is no
security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion."
"Be not entangled in this world
of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well."
"In the West, Intellect is the
source of life, In the East, Love is the basis of life. Through Love, Intellect
grows aquainted with Reality, And Intellect gives stability to the work of
Love, Arise and lay the foundations of a new world, By wedding intellect to
Love."
"God's destinies have no end...
The fine wink is hidden in one word: If thou becomest different, it will also
become different."
"Since love first made the
breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a
mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in
your sight."
"The immediacy of mystic
experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is
not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one
another and having no reference to experience."
"The scientific observer of
Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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