Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDestiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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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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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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