I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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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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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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