If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALGod is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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