But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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