It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBALUnbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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