Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhen truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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