The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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