The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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