The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBALArt: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
-
-
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
God is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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 IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL