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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Inductive 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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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