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.
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.
The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.
In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.
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