I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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It 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.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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But 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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Another 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.
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