I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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