Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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God is not a dead equation!
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