The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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