I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

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.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully; Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is The long nights of the grave

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

For centuries Eastern heart and intellect have been absorbed in the question Does God exist? I propose to raise a new question new, that is to say, for the East Does man exist?

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

The heart is like a mirror. Do not prevent it from being broken. It’s breakage is more dearer in the sight of its maker [Allah], than its safety. Almighty Allah being indeed the Maker

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment, His burning candle consumed me - the moth; His wine overwhelmed my goblet, The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold And set my ashes aflame.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

Alas for a love whose fire is extinct, A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols!

I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained." He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire!