Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. 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. The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. 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. The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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