If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDestiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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