Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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