I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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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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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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