Quotes from Abraham Eraly

If a holy man eats half his loaf, he will give the other half to a beggar. But if a king conquers all the world, he will still seek another world to conquer. —SAADI, PERSIAN POET

a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint.

There is something very wrong with a people who consider that the greatest that would ever be has already been, and that the best they can do is to duplicate the past.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

if he conquers, he obtains power and good fortune. If he perishes, he obtains paradise and bliss.' The outcome of the battle therefore did not matter much to him.

The pervasive attitude of fatalism among Indians of all classes was yet another factor affecting the spirit of Indian armies—victory and defeat were not in their hands, they believed; whatever was destined to happen would happen. This

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

He constructed a road from Gaur to the river Indus," says Mushtaqui, but it is more likely that Sher Shah only repaired and realigned the road, for there had been a highway along that grid from ancient times.

In the Buddhist view, the king served the people; in the Hindu view, the people served the king. However

From Delhi to Palam Is the realm of Shah Alam.