The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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