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.
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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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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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