Mohsin Ali

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
― Jacob Needleman, The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders

“Bazeecha-e-atfal hai duniya mere aage,
Hota hai shab-o-roz tamasha mere aage”
― Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was easy to detect the confrontation that was already taking place between traditional and modern elements in the Islamic world.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islam in the Modern World: Challenged by the West, Threatened by Fundamentalism, Keeping Faith with Tradition

“Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.”
― Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity