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.
Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays itβs not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. Itβs not so important where it leads. thatβs why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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