Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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