A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
MUHAMMAD IQBALRise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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