I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDestiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBecome dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
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 IQBALThat 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWater before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALEnds and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBe not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWords, without power, is mere philosophy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThough the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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.
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