I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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