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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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