Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

God is not a dead equation!

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

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.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of life

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

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

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

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.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

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.

It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Ki Muhammad se wafa toonay to ham teray hain Ye jahan cheez hai kiya lauho qalam tere hain

Maa tujhe salaam pher lete hai nazar jis waqt bete or bahu.. ajnabi apne hi ghar me hae ban jati hai maaa..

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.