The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThat 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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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.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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