Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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