If 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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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, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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.
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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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