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Calligraphy of lines from one of Iqbal's Persian poems (A.H.1415, 1994/5)

Source: http://members.xoom.com/IqbalAcademy/poems.htm
(downloaded May 2000)

From the Iqbal Academy website:

"Who art Thou? And whence?
that the dark blue skies
To look for Thee have open'd
a thousand starry eyes!

--Iqbal (Zabúr-i-Ajam: Persian Psalms)

Translated by Saeed Durrani & Peter Avery
Calligraphy by Rashid Batt, Islamabad, dated A.H. 1415 (1994/5)"


Another Persian verse by Iqbal, with modern calligraphy

Source: http://members.nbci.com/iqbalacademy/poems.htm
(downloaded March 2001)

" I have carved an idol after my own visage:
Shaped a god in my own image -
For me there's no escaping the Self:
Whatever style I am, I worship but myself.

--Iqbal (Zabúr-i-Ajam: Persian Psalms)

Translated by Saeed Durrani & Peter Avery
Calligraphy by Rasheed Butt"