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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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