Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
God is not a dead equation!
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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.
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.
