Muhammad Iqbal Quotes About Literature
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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 am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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