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.

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

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

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.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

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

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.