Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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God is not a dead equation!
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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