Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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