For the time being, however, ire and the poetic fire seem to be lying low within me. — Dr. Maqbool Elahi, On Unknown Seas to Unknown Shores Copy Share WhatsApp
by Dr. Maqbool Elahi
Poetry · 329 pages
“As the phrase goes in this part of the world, I should now be without any ire, for they say anger springs from the spleen.”
“This has been an act of ample reassurance for something the ink of which otherwise may have dimmed with time to illegibility.”
“Whether it be religion, history, current affairs, literature, sports (and many others), discussions with Abbajan are illuminating, for he has been blessed with remarkable memory and diction.”
“Bāzīd Muhammad, father of Sultān Bāhoo, was a title holder of the Mughals.”
“The most pronounced feature of mysticism is the intense love of the Sūfi for the Creator— “the love which burns everyone except Allāh”, as they say in Arabic.”
“Author of well over a hundred books on various aspects of mysticism and religion, Sultān Bāhoo, for the common man of the Punjab, primarily remains an eloquent and powerful poet.”
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