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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThus 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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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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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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