Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Meaning of the quote
The quote suggests that we should think beyond our own personal desires and focus on the bigger picture. It tells us to move from physical things to spiritual ones. Physical things are all different, but the spiritual world is full of light, life, and unity.
About Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal was a prominent South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet, and politician. He is known for his influential role in the Pakistan Movement and is considered one of the most important Muslim thinkers of the 20th century. His poetic works, such as ‘Asrar-e-Khudi’ and ‘Rumuz-e-Bekhudi,’ have earned him widespread recognition and acclaim.
More quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
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.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
God is not a dead equation!
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
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.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
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.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
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.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
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.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
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.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
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.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)