The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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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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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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