It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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