The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince 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 IQBALBut 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 IQBALRise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
MUHAMMAD IQBALBe not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBALAnother 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALMan is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
MUHAMMAD IQBALVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWords, without power, is mere philosophy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIslam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALNations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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