Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
MUHAMMAD IQBALYet 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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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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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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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