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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.

Muhammad Iqbal

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Abovem Section Ambition Interest Private Rise
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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Also Dust Made Mote Rise True World
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Comunity Divine Even Faithful Follow Himself Predestination Religious Unbeliever
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Analogy Body Contact Divine Life Soul Touch Universe Whole
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Capture Experience Man Relies Religious Standpoint
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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Adhere Faith Life No Religion Security There
God is not a dead equation!
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Dead Equation God
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Experience Human Inner Knowledge One Only Source
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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Ask Beginning Busy End Men Should Through Whence Will Wise
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Artistry Consider Interest Myself never No Poet Poetic
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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Best Careful Follow Lead Leader Life Part Party Religion Study
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Art Heir Manke Men Object Poetry Prophecy
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Aim Ego See Something Ultimate
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Become Burn Get Heat Philosophy Poetry Truth
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Experience God Immediacy Know Mean Mystic Object Other Simply
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Concrete Less Mind More Physiologically Suitable Type Violent

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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