It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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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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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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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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