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Ideas of Iqbal
[edit]- Life
- Much above the fear of profit and loss is life!
- Now the soul now the surrender of soul is life!
- Do not measure it on the scale of today and tomorrow
- Eternal, incessantly struggling, ever young is life!
- Create your own world if you claim to be among the living
- The secret of Adam and the object of Kun fikan is life
- Ask the mountain digger for the reality of life
- The canal of milk, the axe, the heavy rock is life
- In slavery it is choked to a mere trickling brook
- And in freedom like the boundless ocean is life
- It is manifested by its power of subduing
- Though concealed in a body of dust is life
- You have emerged from the existence’ ocean like a bubble
- In this losing battle your examination is life
- Selfhood
- This flow of breath is like a sword,
- Selfhood is its sharpness;
- Selfhood is the secret of life;
- It is the world’s awakening,
- Selfhood is solitary, absorbed,
- An ocean enclosed in a drop;
- It shines in light and in darkness,
- Existent in, but away from, thee and me.
- The dawn of life behind it, eternity before,
- It has no frontiers before, no frontiers behind.
- Afloat on the river of time,
- Bearing the buffets of the waves,
- Changing the course of its quest,
- Shifting its glance from time to time;
- For it a hill is a grain of sand,
- Mountains are shattered by its blows;
- A journey is its beginning and end,
- And this is the secret of its being.
- It is the moon’s beam, the spark in the flint,
- Colourless itself, though infused with colours,
- No concern has it with the calculus of space,
- With linear time’s limits, with the finitude of life.
- It manifested itself in man’s essence of dust,
- After an eternity of a strife to be born.
- It is in thy heart that Selfhood has an abode,
- As heaven has its abode in the cornea of thy eye
- Nationalism