Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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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.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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