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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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