“ your life under the shade of faith was a continuous love story . Worship and religion in their true essence are nothing but love. ”

“They smell your breathLest you have said: I love you,They smell your heart:These are strange times, my dear.From the poem Strange Times, My Dear, in the PEN Anthology of Contemporary Literature”

“If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.”

“No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds.”

“Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.”

“Love For All; Hatred for None”

“Religion is a personal matter between God and man, and that force plays no role in it”