"Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass."
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"Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture."
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"Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism"
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"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something."
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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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"A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego."
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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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"Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct."
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"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."
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"The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery."
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"let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others."
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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."
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"Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity."
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"Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny."
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"It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own."
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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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"The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly."
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"I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India."
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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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"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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