The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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