Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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 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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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