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All Quotes by author - Muhammad Iqbal

" 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. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. "

" Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. "

" Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. "

" But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. "

" But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. "

" 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. "

" But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. "

" Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. "

" 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. "

" Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. "

" Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. "

" God is not a dead equation! "

" I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. "

" If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. "

" I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. "

" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "

" I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. "

" 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. "

" It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. "

" It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. "

" It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. "

" Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. "

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