If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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.
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