Wasif Ali Wasif Quotes

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean.

There can only be two contexts of your life. Either you are the author of your life, or He (the Creator) is the author of your life. People who feel that their creation is the responsibility of the Creator, find opportunities unexpectedly. Those who feel that their lives are their own, have to fashion their own means.

Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

Belief in God, without belief in the Prophet (SAWW), would still be unbelief.

If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever).

One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

In order to spend out our time (life) we sell some of this time. We work for someone, we labour. In freedom we do slavery.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton.

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations

Do not destroy anybody’s peace. You will find peace.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

As long as man was in the moolight he desired to reach the moon…there was bliss in the moonlight but the moon itself was distant. Moonlight was near but man longed for the moon…man reached the moon but there he was without moonlight. If one reaches the moon one does not find moonlight any longer and if one is in moonlight one does not find the moon. It is a strange fact that one is only because of the other…one is a sign of the other yet both are forever separate. If the Beloved is the Moon, moonlight is His remembrance. When the Beloved is present His remembrance is not and when His remembrance is present the Beloved is not. Proximity to one is distance from the other, Union with one is separation from the other. Thus union is hidden in every separation and separation in every union.

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.