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.
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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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