Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALNations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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