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Ideas of Iqbal

 * 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