I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIn 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 ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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