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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
Living
I Am
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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" I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. "
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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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" Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? "
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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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" 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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" Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. "
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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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" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "
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" Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Life
" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
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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 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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" 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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" Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. "
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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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" Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. "
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" Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Thou
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