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 IQBALThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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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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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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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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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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