I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. |
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. |
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. |
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. |
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. |
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. |
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. |
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? |
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. |
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. |
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. |
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. |
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. |
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 seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. |
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. |