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.
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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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