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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. "

" Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. "

" The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. "

" Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" 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. "

" It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. "

" The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. "

" Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. "

" Words, without power, is mere philosophy. "

" It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. "

" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "

" 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. "

" It 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. "

" Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. "

" But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. "

" A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego. "