The 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer 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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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