Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALPass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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