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 IQBALBut inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Since 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.
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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