Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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