If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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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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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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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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 immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of 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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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