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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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