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 IQBALThe scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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