When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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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 may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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