Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIn the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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.
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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