If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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In 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.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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