Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
“I am very happy. My only ambition is that the quality of my work should go ahead.”
On his artistic work till date.
This is a sum of all my experiences: SH Raza
Some Reasons Why (1881)
Context: Suppose then, that I do read this Bible honestly, fairly, and when I get through I am compelled to say, “The book is not true.” If this is the honest result, then you are compelled to say, either that God has made no revelation to me, or that the revelation that it is not true, is the revelation made to me, and by which I am bound. If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree? Either God should have written a book to fit my brain, or should have made my brain to fit his book.
These are the words of a great Muslim saint, 'AbdulQuddës of Gangoh. In the whole range of Sufi literature it will be probably difficult to find words which, in a single sentence, disclose such an acute perception of the psychological difference between the prophetic and the mystic types of consciousness. The mystic does not wish to return from the repose of "unitary experience"; and even when he does return, as he must, his return does not mean much for mankind at large.
Source: The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam http://www.allamaiqbal.com/works/prose/english/reconstruction/index.htm
“I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.”
Stanza 5.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)
Acknowledgements, p. 549
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
