God is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBALPeople 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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 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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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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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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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