The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBALGod is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALMan is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince 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 IQBALGod is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBALBecome dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBALVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThough the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
MUHAMMAD IQBALAnother way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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 IQBALWater before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWords, without power, is mere philosophy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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