Muhammad Iqbal

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. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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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. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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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. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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