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.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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.
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.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Words, without power , is mere philosophy .
Alama Sir Muhammad Iqbal
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