Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBecome dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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