Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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 possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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God is not a dead equation!
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine 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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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