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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDestiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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