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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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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 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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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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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