I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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