Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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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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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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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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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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