Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
MUHAMMAD IQBALEnds and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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 mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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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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