Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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