HINDU AND MUSLIM QUOTES

[Pravin Kumar]

Then Gabriel took Muhammad back down to the sixth level. Moses asked Muhammad: 'How many prayers has Abraham required you and your people to say each day?' 'Fifty,' replied Muhammad. Moses said: 'Prayer is a weighty matter, and you and your people are weak. Go back to Abraham, and ask him to reduce the number of prayers that you and your people must say to five.' Muhammad returned to Abraham; and after much pleading Abraham agreed.

- Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad


The ruinous griefs that he is yet to suffer will not cleave to him who, Renouncing other supports, realizes life's true Support. Desire, detesting and delusion - the annihilation of these three names Is the annihilation of suffering endured.

- Tirukkural 36: 359-360


When the mind is nowhere it is everywhere. When it occupies one tenth, it is absent in the other nine tenths.

- Takuan[/i]