Allama Iqbal

 "Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity."

The Voice from Gibraltar

"Brothers in Islam!  We now have the enemy in front of us and the deep sea behind us.  We cannot return to our homes, because we have burnt our boats.  We shall now either defeat the enemy and win or die a coward's death drowning into the sea.  Who will follow me?"

These precious words were deliverd by the great commander of Islam Tariq Bin Ziyad to his soldiers in 711 A.D.

Freedom

Freedom is my state of being able to keep my needs and wants under my control, safeguard my rights to decide for myself.  My freedom does not allow me to harass others and play with their emotions and feelings in any way.

I am inspired with Iqbal's poetry for children since my childhood.  Only a person who can feel the pain of a little, helpless bird in prison can produce an ideology to free a slave nation to become a promised nation.  

FREEDOM by ALLAMA IQBAL 

To my mind those

Days of past are coming

When in the garden was spring

And everyone chirping

Where is such a freedom nowadays

By their own wish one comes and goes

Wound upon my heart is going sore

As upon the tears of dew smiles the flower

That pleasant-seeming picture

That lovely-seeming figure

Prosperous by which

Was my abode

In my home is no more coming

The cry of those who're humming

Had my freedom been

In the hands of my own!

How misfortunate I am

My own home searching I am!

My friends in their nation

Laying I am in this prison

Spring's come

Buds of flowers are smiling

In this dark home

About my fate I am wailing

Who in this prison

Will my misfortune listen

I fear that in this nest

Will be my final rest

My garden since I left

This has been my state

Grief with heart is consumed

And heart with grief is consumed

Take this not as a song

O the ones who listen!

Of grief-stricken hearts

This is the sound of a plaint

Free me O warden

From this prison

I am speechless prisoner

Set me free and gain my prayer

The Genuine Islam

"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful viatlity.  It is the only religion which appears to me topossess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age.  I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness:
I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today."

Sir George Bernard Shaw in "The Genuine Islam"