The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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