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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALA wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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 universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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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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