“Would we have played with our lives for nothing but worldly gain?
If our people had run after earth's goods and gold,
Need they have smashed idols, and not idols sold?”

— Muhammad Iqbál

Source: Shikwa. https://archive.org/details/ShikwaJawabIShikwaIqbalsDialogueWithAllahTrKhushwantSinghIqbal

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Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement 1877–1938

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If our people had run after earth's goods and gold,
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