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.
CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive β it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.
You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.
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