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 IQBALDestiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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