Biography - Mushtaq Noor opened his eye in a small agriculturist family of a far-flung village of Pakistan. He was only two and a half when his father died of an accident. Under very crucial circumstances, however, he strived and succeeded in achieving his B.Sc. Engineering degree with Distinctions. For a few years he joined a Public organization but soon he preferred setting up his own business. He was very successful in his business related endeavors and soon he achieved high positions in his circles. Unfortunately, at this stage, an old trusted friend joined his business but soon cheated him betraying his blind faith rendering him penniless, homeless. He had to undergo manifold tortures and disturbances caused to his family. Leaving the accidents and incidents aside killing of time, sitting idle, was an additional devastating agony. He cannot forget the day of 13th Sept. 1997, starving for over three days, dejected a lot, he went drowsy for a while when someone was asking him, 'Why not start poetry and painting, its better to kill time?' In abeyance only, to say, he started extensive study of philosophy of 'Khudi' (highborn creation of man) by the great thinker Dr. Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), Poet of the East. Strangely enough, his drowsing led him to many forms of matter undergoing alchemy through life, as the soul does, which could be utilized as allegoristic instances to place such occurrences on canvas. More involved, he remained evolving and drawing sketches against the ideas so captured. He had never attended any art school nor painted but his innate power, to conceive and express, through brush, was surprisingly developed, therefrom. The sketches drawn, as such, were of no use unless transferred to canvas. He tried his best to arrange some funds for painting materials but failed. At last, during Feb. 2002 a friend from America arranged him a small sum to try his luck. In April, 2002 he started painting his gathered ideas, hence this art. All his artwork (website: http://www.ravingsart.com) as mentioned earlier, is based on revelations blessed unto him resulting from dive in philosophy of Iqbal, spread over three to four years. During that time he also wrote three books in Urdu poetry. In his own words, 'All praise and graciousness is to Allah, God Almighty, who sends each soul blessing a unique level of intellect, labeling it certain attributes and virtues, to perform it"s part of drama at the set stage in this world. God unveils these attributes at a stage He deems fit, purely as a pre-set program, that only God knows! I am of the firm belief, there is no wonder, skill or role, what so ever, at his hands to be praised'.