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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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