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              With courage great a war i wage
            
            
              Gainst evils of the present age:
            
            
              I do not bear a fighter’s name’
            
            
              To chieftainship I lay no claim.
            
            
              I am not conscious “bout this fact
            
            
              If it is verse or other tact:
            
            
              ALLAH has bestowed on me science long
            
            
              His praise, reflection, charm and song.
            
            
              The flood of light that makes its show
            
            
              On true and faithful Muslim’s brow:
            
            
              With grandeur same is quite replete
            
            
              That fills being’s soul and make complete
            
            
              You do not call it unbelief,
            
            
              No less it is than disbelief:
            
            
              That truthful man may get content
            
            
              With today, for change shoe no intent.
            
            
              Don’t grieve, for millennium and aeons more
            
            
              Still lie ahead for man in store:
            
            
              The ever spinning heaven blue
            
            
              Is not devoid of planets new.
            
            
              Allama Muhammad Iqbal