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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALConduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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