I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBe not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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