Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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God is not a dead equation!
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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