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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALArt: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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