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

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

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

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.

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.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.