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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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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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