Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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