Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThat is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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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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