Do you know what European culture is?
In its world are two hundred paradises of colour;
its dazzling shows have burned down abodes,
consumed with fire branch, leaf and nest.
Its exterior is shining and captivating
but its heart is weak, a slave to the gaze;
the eye beholds, the heart staggers within
and falls headlong before this idol-temple.

Sir Muhammad Iqbal, javednama