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RUBA`IYAT
Allama Muhammad
Iqbal
Faith is like
Abraham at the stake: to be
Self-honoring
and God-drunk, is faith. Hear me,
You whom this
age’s way so captivate!
To have no
faith is worse than slavery.
Music of
strange lands with Islam’s fire blends,
On which the
nation’s harmony depends;
Empty of
concord is the soul of Europe,
Whose
civilization to no Makkah bends.
Love’s madness
has departed: in
The Muslim’s
veins the blood runs thin;
Ranks broken,
hearts perplexed, prayers cold,
No feeling deeper
than the skin.
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