Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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