The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Interpretation
This quote contrasts the outcomes of noble versus ignoble acts.
Muhammad Iqbal uses the metaphor of the falcon and the crow to convey a profound message about the nature of one's actions and their consequences. The falcon symbolizes nobility, honor, and the potential to elevate oneself, leading to recognition and success, symbolized by the 'king.' In contrast, the crow represents baseness and mediocrity, ultimately leading to failure and death, represented by the 'cemetery.' This quote encourages individuals to aspire to greater ideals and actions, implying that the choices we make affect our destiny and legacy.
In practice
In a speech about personal integrity, you might say, 'Remember, the wing of the falcon brings to the king.'
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings.
A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.
Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch time by the tail.
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