It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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I 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.
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