A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
MUHAMMAD IQBALArt: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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 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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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