Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALSexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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 truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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