Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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