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.
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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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.
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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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