Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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