Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
MUHAMMAD IQBALAnother 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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 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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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 aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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