It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy 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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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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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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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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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