The blue cupola above, the wide expanse of loneliness around— Frightening to me is the immensity of this desert; A lost and blundering wayfarer are you, and so I am. Where lies your destination, O tulip of the desert ? (Bal-i Jibril, in Kulliyyat-i Iqbal—Urdu,121)

It is not easy for a candle to burn and throb alone Not a single moth worthy of me is there . . . I am like a tulip cast in the desert— Alone, all alone, though in company. (Asrar-i Khudi, in Kulliyyat-i Iqbal—Farsi, 77–78) Iqbal-Namah 10.1–2 Winter and Spring 2010 /...

On one side the whole world is after us and [on] another side the internal enemies are going to finish us. But at least we have one satisfaction, that from one end to the other end we have made other people sleepless. A Q. Khan, father of the Pakistani nuclear program, to a colleague. ( Quoted...

“Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.” ? Kahlil Gibran, The Madman  

I am like a blind man who feels his way so that he will not fall. Khalil Jibran

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”