Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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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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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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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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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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