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 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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