I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDestiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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