If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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