“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.”

— Dr. Maqbool Elahi

“The time and place serve as reminders to me of incidents in my life, in the life of my country, on the horizon of the world.”

— Dr. Maqbool Elahi

“For the time being, however, ire and the poetic fire seem to be lying low within me.”

— Dr. Maqbool Elahi

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“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.”

— Dr. Maqbool Elahi, The Abayat of Sultan Bahoo

“Bāzīd Muhammad, father of Sultān Bāhoo, was a title holder of the Mughals.”

— Dr. Maqbool Elahi, The Abayat of Sultan Bahoo

“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.”

— Dr. Maqbool Elahi, The Abayat of Sultan Bahoo

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“Dua and Mala are nice, but you were my first and that will never change.”

— Nasreen Tariq, Sania's Shyness - friendship book for kids

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“How joyful the heart becomes when it finds true love, and how sad it is that joy in essence is ephemeral.”

— Mahnoor Ali Syed, Sweet Sleep

“Your love makes anything feel possible, and for that, I dedicate this to you.”

— Samar Malik, Desire

“From quite a while, I have been trying to figure out one perception of love that explains it all yet all I’ve come to is its ashes, scattered & dispersed, let alone the whole fiery universe of it.”

— Syed Sami Shah, Octoberness