Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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.
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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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