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 IQBALI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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