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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALInductive 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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