The answer, according to me, is Yes! It is written in Quran that:Kayinat kee her she' ko jode' main bnaya gaya hai (each and everything in this Universe is created in pairs). So it is obvious that spirit should also have its partner. Who is it? Maybe our body, a mixture of sand and clay. It is very well-known that elements of pairs attract each other, like two opposite charges(+ and -). So our body and our spirit should attract each other all the time, but this is not the case. People who love Allah and His Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. think differently. You would find in most of their writings saying that they feel sometimes that their spirit wants to see and meet its Creator. In other words, spirit is attracted to its Creator.It can happen because our spirit is created from Light, which is not...

I was busy in my studies. Suddenly a thought came in my mind. I am sharing it with you too;Mind or Power of Brain is like an open stream, which flows from top (of a mountain) to bottom. Either this stream follows the path created by previous streams (broad ones) or creates its own way. I think thoughts of Rumi and Iqbal were like these streams which have created a narrow way. This way would become broad as other thinkers follow it.Now the question arose in my mind is: You control your mind or your mind controls you?Khurram Shafiq writes about Iqbal:It was here, in March 1907, that he finally made the first major breakthrough into the labyrinth of his exquisite mind. He was unsuccessful, he ruthlessly concluded, not because he wasn’t intelligent...

As far as I have understood, Republic of Rumi is the name of the nation given by Khurram Shafiq, which means that a nation which Rumi dreamed of. I do not know about his background much, like how did he come to know about such thing, about the existence of Rumi's and Iqbal's dream? Maybe he started his research from the works of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, and found that he has encoded some hints to know the future and....to become immortal. That sounds very odd!In order to decide whether it is right or wrong, I have decided to read each and every article written by Khurram Shafiq. And will be posting each and every question coming in my mind while reading his articles.I also invite you to help me in getting the answers of those questions.The e-group started by Khurram Shafiq:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/therepublicofrumi?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=2The...

About 1 year ago, I came to know that there is a possibility of foreseeing the "future". Sounds pretty awkward! I also thought the same like you.As usual, I was in my university, doing my routine stuff. One of our teachers told me that we had a guest speaker session that day. "OK ma'am!", we all replied to our teacher and entered into the auditorium, where the session was to take place.A man with sparkling eyes entered into the auditorium, and started to tell us about the importance of poetry and other works of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. His name was Khurram Shafique, a historian, screenwriter and educationist. He told us that he had been studying the works of Iqbal for many years and found that there was something "hidden" in his works, sort of "codes" I must say.He then took the example of Iqbal's...