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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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" 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. "

Muhammad Iqbal

Water

Understand

" The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. "

" 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. "

" 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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. "

" Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? "

Muhammad Iqbal

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Why

" Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. "

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

" But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. "

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. "

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

" I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. "

" I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. "

" The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. "

" Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. "