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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Muhammad Iqbal

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Muhammad Iqbal
Age: 60 †
Born: 1877
Born: November 9
Died: 1938
Died: April 21
Lawyer
Philosopher
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal
Allama Iqbal
Muhammed İkbal
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Islam
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The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain
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The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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It is absolutely certain that God does exist.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
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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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Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.
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