Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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