Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that Islam shapes the destiny of its followers rather than being subject to the influences of destiny itself.
Muhammad Iqbal articulates the idea that Islam is not just a religion or belief system, but a powerful force that defines the direction and purpose of its adherents' lives. It implies a sense of agency and determination that Islam embodies, positioning it as a guiding principle that actively shapes the individual's destiny instead of merely accepting the forces of fate. This perspective highlights the transformative power of faith in influencing one's life path.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the power of belief and faith.
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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.
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?
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