Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi( جلالالدین محمد رومی) Said
“The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that ??”
Birth: 1207
Death: 17 December 1273
Allama Iqbal said that
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the [...]
Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi( جلالالدین محمد رومی) Said
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, “I’ll do nothing until I can be sure”. Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don’t be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Birth: 1207
Death: 17 December 1273
Abu Ali Sina ابوعلی سینا said
God is knowledge; he is knowing; and he is being known. Since God has knowledge of his own essence, and since God is one, it follows that the essence of God is knowledge. And knowledge means that he knows himself, and is known by himself.
- Ibn Sina, “al-Risalat al-Arshiya”
Birth: approximately 980 [...]
Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi( جلالالدین محمد رومی) Said
The outward form of things passes away, but the essence remains for ever. How long will you be besotted with the shape of the jug? Cast aside the jug, and seek the water. If you look too closely at the form, you miss the essence. If you are wise, [...]
Allama Iqbal علامہ محمد اقبال said that
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Born
November 9, 1877
Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Died
April 21, 1938 (aged 60)
Lahore, Punjab, British India
Mohandas Gandhi said
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Born
2 October 1869(1869-10-02)
Porbandar, Kathiawar Agency, British India
Died
30 January 1948 (aged 78)
New Delhi, Union of India
Kahlil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi جلالالدین محمد رومی) Said
“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more – more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
Birth: 1207
Death: 17 December 1273
Abu Ali Sina ابوعلی سینا said
God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.
- Ibn Sina, “Kitab al-Najat”
Birth: approximately 980 AD
Death:1037 [...]
