Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 63

I can very well understand your frustration, but you must stick to your dreams. Try Harder!
K Hari Kumar
So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it useful to espouse the rhetoric of faith, because people respect that language, are reluctant to oppose it. This how religions shore up dictators; by encircling them with words of power, words which the people are reluctant to see discredited, disenfranchised, mocked.But the ramming-down-the-throat point stands. In the end you get sick of it, you lose faith in the faith, if not qua faith then certainly as basis for a state. And then the dictator falls, and it is discovered that he had brought God down with him, that the justifying myth of the nation has been unmade. This leaves only two options: disintegration, or a new dictatorship ... no, there is a third, and I shall not be o pessimistic as to deny its possibility. The third option is the substitution of a new myth for the old one. Here are three such myths, all available from stock at short notice: liberty; equality; fraternity. I recommend them highly.
Salman Rushdie
The Sufi Islam practiced in northern India is quite different from the Shi'a Islam practiced in Lebannon, which in turn is different from the Sunni Islam practiced in Pakistan. Even within a single branch of Islam there are customs and practices that vary by region and across time. Thus, the Islam of seventh-century Arabia is different from the Wahhabism that exists today in Saudi Arabia.
Deepa Kumar
Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' that means 'GOOD' (I also owe this one to Khaled Hosseini). That's how my favorite character in my debut novel 'When Strangers meet..' gets his name... HUSSAIN ANSARI, because he is the one who helps Jai realize the truth in the story and inspires his son, Arshad, to have FAITH in Allah.
K Hari Kumar
Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetPracticeWho are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.
Idries Shah
Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetPrivacyWhoever invades people´s privacy corrupts them.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetLoveDo you think you love your Creator? Love your fellow-creature first.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetTHE PEOPLEIt is the people who are God's family.(Muhammad the Prophet)
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetSome behaviourI am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.
Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.
Idries Shah
Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikleyIn this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,They go down on one side to come up on the other.
Allama Iqbal
Teaching:One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.Saying of the Prophet
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetMonkishnessNo monkery in Islam.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetHelping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Muslim or not.
Idries Shah
The beauty of Islamic System is that in contrast to the current international judicial systems, it involves the victims or their heirs in the process of deciding the quantum of the punishment. The responsibility of the court is to examine the charges, decide the nature of the crime and the involvement of the accused persons and then announce the Maximum Permissible Punishment available under Islamic law. Following that, it is the right of the victims or their heirs to either allow the maximum punishment or to reduce or pardon it, in return or not of an adequate compensation, to be decided through mutual understanding.
Javed Jamil
Saying of the Prophet. The Bequest: I have nothing to leave you except my family.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetAngerYou ask for a piece of advice. I tell you : 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.
Idries Shah
Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying
Salman Rushdie
Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity – who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.
Abhijit Naskar
Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get — he died from a Hindu assassin’s bullet with the words “Hé Ram” on his lips — but he always said that for him, Ram and Rahim were the same deity, and that if Hinduism ever taught hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, “it is doomed to destruction.
Shashi Tharoor
Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur'an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books would not move an unwilling person who is like an ass carrying a load of books.
Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalvi
I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.
Mahatma Gandhi
The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Work on your goals, one step at a time. Remain focused and do not stop. You will be amazed how much you can accomplish over the years. In most things in life, it is not the speed but the consistency that matters.
Roopleen
If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it's impact, you can probably create history.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
Change your focus. Refocus on the desired results Once you acknowledge how easy it is to attract factors in your life that you do not want and accept how effective and simple the law is, you can start using it to your advantage.
Malti Bhojwani
Every morning, you have a choice either to make your day relaxed or stressful. To be thankful for what you have or to complain about what you don’t have. To count your achievements and celebrate them, or to dwell on the mistakes of your past and feel bad. To take action to make things better, or to continue on in mediocrity.
Maddy Malhotra
The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows.
Amit Ray
Being in integrity’ only means all your senses are just focusing on that task, in that moment!!!
Harrish Sairaman
A little distraction often helps you come back with sharper focus.
Tapan Ghosh
The gods command that there can be only one king. But I swear that I am no better than a common soldier today, and you are as good as kings. Each man here is part of me. So what’s left for the king to say? Only two words, but they are the two that your hearts want to hear. Victory.And home!” Then his command cracked like a whip. “All together—move!
Deepak Chopra
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together in the end to form the complete picture.
Jyoti Arora
Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to meet him. This, she thought. This is it. But it was only part of the truth. She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!
Anamika Mishra
Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write...
Sanhita Baruah
He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a career out of detecting, but he wants to write plays for theater. Maybe he could be a Shakespeare instead of a Sherlock. He could be anything. Anything he wants to be.
Sangu Mandanna
He who has experienced the mystery of the nature is full of life, full of love, full of joy. Radiance emanates from the whole existence itself, it does not know the meaning of holding back. It is pure giving-giving of love. For the great writers, love is like holding ice in hand, it just turns to water and they lose out their role but for a mystic the moment ice transforms to water love starts to flow.
Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.
Debasish Mridha
A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.
Debasish Mridha
A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.
Debasish Mridha
A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.
Debasish Mridha
The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.
Debasish Mridha
There is only one rule for writing and that is go ahead and start writing.
Debasish Mridha
They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be.
Salman Rushdie
Writer is a Film Director of letters.
Rajesh Nanoo