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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALEnds and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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