Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world!
An invocation
Sell cheap the love of Salman and Bilal!
Give us the sleepless eye and the passionate heart,
Time is a sword
The cause of Time is not the revolution of the sun
Time is everlasting, but the sun does not last for ever.
Stories Iqbal tells
Do not wound the heart of dervishes,
Do not throw thyself into burning fire!
IQBAL Meets RUMI
Inspired by the genius of the Master of Rum.
I reherarse the sealed book of secret lore.
Secrets of the Self
When a drop of water gets the self’s lesson by heart,
It makes its worthless existence a pearl
IQBAL’s Talk to New Generation (Address to javid)
Amongst the massively splendid works of Iqbal, if I were to read only a portion, I believe this would be it!
Shakeb Jalali
کیا جانیے منزل ہے کہاں جاتے ہیں کس سمت
بھٹکی ہوئی اس بھیڑ میں سب سوچ رہے ہیں
Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
No matter if you are rock or the brook, you will change too.
No matter what, do not be still water because
you cannot even perform ablution in that.
Adeem hashmi
مفاہمت نہ سکھا جبر ناروا سے مجھے
میں سر بکف ہوں لڑا دے کسی بلا سے مجھے
Yunus Emre
Yunus chanced to meet a friend.
Who showed him a door inside,