Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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 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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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