Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
MUHAMMAD IQBALRise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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Thus 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.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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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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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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