The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPlants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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