Arham

“The paper is finished, the pen is finished, and we are finished,
But, the fable of desire, is still not finished.”
― Zulfiqar Ahmad, The Conqueror of Hearts

“Islam's prohibitions against pictoral representation of the human being have prevented the ubiquitous spread of the use of the female body for corporate purposes. Advertisements do not feature superfluous female body there to titillate potential buyer. In advertisements...image is not advanced as an ideal to which other women should aspire. Hence the use of images of women (and men) does not promote the phenomenon of self-correcting and self-policing, as is the case with the use of images in the mainstream Western culture.”
― Katherine Bullock, Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes

“Alas for a love whose fire is extinct,
A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols!”
― Muhammad Iqbal, The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944

“Arise and pour pure wine into my cup,
Pour moon beams into the dark night of my
thought,
That I may lead home the wanderer
And imbue the idle looker-on with restless
impatience;
And advance hotly on a new quest
And become known as the champion of a new
spirit”
― Muhammad Iqbal, The Secrets of the Self: A Philosophical Poem 1944