Flower and faith . . .

 . . To bloom flowers is my religion. Sword may be a burden in my hand, but I have not discarded it. I play flute with the young cattle-herders during the dusk, I give Azan at dawn (Fajr time) adding my voice to the Muazzin (the prayer caller), I also jump into the battle field with my unsheathed sword during the bright noon. My flute then becomes the trumpet of battle.

My music is for the beauty, and the sword is for those monsters who endanger the beauty.

[These are excerpts from an address titled "The Practice of Muslim Culture", given in 1929 on the occasion of the founding ceremony of Chattogram Education Society. Nazrul Rochonaboli, Vol. 4, 1996, pp. 101-106.]