Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALInductive 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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