Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhen truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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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 dead equation!
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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It 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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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