Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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God is not a dead equation!
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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 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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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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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