If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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 ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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