Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBe not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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 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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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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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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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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