If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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