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" I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Myself
Never
Poet
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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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" 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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" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "
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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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" 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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" Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. "
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" The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. "
Muhammad Iqbal
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" But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. "
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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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" That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance. "
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" If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. "
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Lost
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" Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. "
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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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" But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing. "
Muhammad Iqbal
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" Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. "
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" I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. "
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Islam
India
" The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. "
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Inside
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" God is not a dead equation! "
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Equation
God
Dead
" 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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" 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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" Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. "
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" Words, without power, is mere philosophy. "
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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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" 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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