If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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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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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 possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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