Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhen truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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God is not a dead equation!
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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