When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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