The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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.
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.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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