Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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 ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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