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Shri Nathji used to quote Ghaznavi and Ayyaaz in another context when he used to quote the verse of Sir Iqbal, which showed how loveless and lifeless the world had become, bereft of the beauty of God’s Grace:Naa vo husn men rahin shokhiyaan na vo ishq men rahin garmiyaan There is no glitter left in Beauty any longer,Adding further in the same sorry refrain:Na jahaan men mujhko amaan milee I could find no peace in the world, no matter where I went,It was the same Sir Iqbal who rued the state of affairs in the world and then called forth upon God to reveal Himself in human form:Kabhi ai haqueeqate muntazar nazar aa libaase majaaz menO Thou Much Awaited Reality appear before me in humanm formSir Iqbal had been alive during the days of R.R.Khanna, the Registrar of the Lucknow University in 1932, when R.R.Khanna had sent Shri Nathji’s Urdu pamphlet “