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(Let me have a drink sitting in the mosque else tell me the place where God is n ot) This was responded to by Iqbal in the first half of 20th Century as follows: Masjid khuda ka ghar hai, peene ki jagah nahi, Kaafir ke dil men ja, wahan khuda nahi. (Mosque is the abode of God, not a place to drink. Go to the heart of a non-beli ever because there God is not) And it came down to later half of the 20th Century when Faraz replied with the f ollowing beautiful lines: Kaafir ke dil se aaya hoon ye dekhkar Faraz, Khuda maujood hai wahan par use pata nahi. (Faraz is coming from the heart of non-believer, God lives there, he knows not) And in 21st Century, here is my response: Naa hoga koi aisa kahiin jisko pata nahiin, Kaafir ke dil men bhi hai, masjid men bhi hai wo, Laa do mujhe sharaab wo, jismen khudaa nahi.