Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL
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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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