It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBALVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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