Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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