Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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