Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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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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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 possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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