Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALRise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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