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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIslam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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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 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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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