Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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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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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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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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