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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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