It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhen truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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