“Za Ba Da Sehra Warna Kram Da Iran Pa Gulistan Dalta Za Yo Yakta Yem Alta Zar Zama Pa Shan Char Chapera Speray khawari Za Yawazi Yem Rokhan Dalta De tol Raigistan Ki Za Da rang aw Nor Lamba yem Da Khaist Jafa Naghma Yem Karishma Da Lamakan Sta Pa Bagh Ki Pa Zargono De Gulan Zama Pa Shan This Desert I wouldn’t give up for the gardens of Iran, A Solitary I Am Here While Legions Like Me Are There, Admidst This Cursed Soil I Stand Apart. In This Gray Desert, I’m a Flame Of Divine Light, I’M Beauty’S Silent Song, A Miracle From The Sky. In Your Garden, There Are Thusands Of Flowers Just Like Me.”

“Like a desert flower waiting for rain, like a river-bank thirsting for the touch of pitchers, like the dawn longing for light; and like a house, like a house in ruins for want of a woman - the exhausted ones of our times need a moment to breathe, need a moment to sleep, in the arms of peace, in the arms of peace.”

“آس امید ناکام نہ ٹھیوے یار ولا بدنام نہ ٹھیوے چھکیڑی وعدہ ہٰیی آج اوندا اج تاں شالا شام نہ ٹھیوے Hope against hope should never end The beloved should never be defamed Tonight she made this final vow: May this evening never end”

“My heart has never known of such bliss before you. Each chamber overflows with your presence.”

expectations lead to disappointment

“Jawaan honde si te pagal honde si, par dil hunda siga.”

“We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her.”

“Aithe koi na milda, Aape Rabb milaunda ae”

“I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced wars; it is the intolerant spirit animating that which believed itself in the ascendant.”

“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.”