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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWater before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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