
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

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

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

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

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

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

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

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

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

-To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

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

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

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

God is not a dead equation!

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

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

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

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

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

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

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

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

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

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions ... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

The highest stage of Man's ethical progress is reached when he becomes absolutely free from fear and grief.

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.

Who am I? Who art Thou? Where is the world?

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

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.

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

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

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

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

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

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory