The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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 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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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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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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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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People 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.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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