I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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.
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