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“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.”
― Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
حديث قدسي
عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال : قال الله عز وجل
يا ابن آدم
لا تخافن من ذي سلطان ما دام سلطاني باقيا وسلطاني لا ينفذ ابدا
يا ابن ادم
لا تخش من ضيق الرزق و خزائني ملآنة ، وخزائني لا تنفذ ابدا
يا ابن آدم
لا تطلب غيري وأنا لك فإن طلبتني وجدتني وإن فتني فتك وفاتك الخير كله
يا ابن آدم
خلقتك للعبادة فلا تلعب وقسمت لك رزقك فلا تتعب فإن أنت رضيت بما قسمته لك أرحت قلبك وبدنك وكنت عندي محمودا
وان لم ترض بما قسمته لك فوعزني وجلالي لأسلطن عليك الدنيا تركض فيها ركض الوحوش في البرية ثم لا يكون لك منها الا ما قسمته لك وكنت عندي مذموما
يا ابن آدم
خلقت السموات السبع والاراضي السبع ولم اعيي بخلقهن أيعييني رغيف عيش اسوقه لك بلا تعب؟
يا ابن آدم
انه لم انس من عصاني ، فكيف من أطاعني وأنا رب رحيم وعلى كل شيء قدير
يا ابن آدم
لا تسألني رزق غد كما لم اطالبك بعمل غد
يا ابن آدم
أنا لك محب
فبحقي عليك كن لي محبا”
― حديث قدسي

“The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“Failure is a word unknown to me.”
― Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah

“We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah