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 IQBALIt is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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