Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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