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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

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Are Bound Mineral Plant Predestination
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Ask Beginning Busy End Men Should Through Whence Will Wise
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Best Careful Follow Lead Leader Life Part Party Religion Study
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Emn Heir Mak Object Poetry Prophecy
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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Brave Breath Brief Grant Grave Movement Night Only Two Wage Whose
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Again Chievemnet Environment Groth Inhabit Knowledge Master Must Born Once Reason
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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Concept Deed Degrade Demolish Eventually Man Milstead Structure Understanding Whole Wrong
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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Experience History Mean Possible Scientific Treatment Wider
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
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
Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Before Blood Faithful Unbelievable Water
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Apart Breast Fierce First Flame Instruction Instrument Lamenting Like Made Mirror Rose Since
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Atom Every Itself Manifest might Nature Self Slumber
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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Before Experience Foundation Higher Larger Learn Recognize Religion Science Search
Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Diversity Life Matter Paas Spirit Unity
Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Air Become Dust Glass Stone They Though Three

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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