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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

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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Around Aspiration Deeper Destiny Lot Man Share Universe Well
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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Dogmas Foundation Function Greater Indeed Principle Religion Science Stand Ultimate
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
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Another As Day Entangled Night Space Time Well World
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Bring Cemetery Crow Falcon King Wing
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Can Culture Elevation Give Last More Not Power Vision Without
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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Collection Does Ignite Island Itself Moment Mutually Exclusive Nothing Present Pure Regarded Series Situated Thing Time Universe Vacuity
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Chainmigorant Destiny Eater Prison Understand
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
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Analogy Body Contact Divine Life Soul Touch Universe Whole
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
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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More Philosophy Power Without Word
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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Give None Preserve Sea Secret Security Shell Terror Through
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Body From Inside Neither Outside Proximate Separate Soul
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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According Biological Christianity Fulfill Impossible Mission Newer Original Psychological Significance Understand
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
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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Comunity Divine Even Faithful Follow Himself Predestination Religious Unbeliever
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Ask Beginning Busy End Men Should Through Whence Will Wise
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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Achievement Current Event Growth Life Man Organic Perception Person Unity World
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Blood Course Moon Movement Seen Sinews Sky Vein
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
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
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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Art Dwell Earth Heaven May Nor Preserve Self Shell The World
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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Aim Different Involve Method Mst Process Reach Real Religious Scientific Through Truth
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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Absolutely Constitute Divine Free Infinite Meet Pass Point Reach Space Through Varieties
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Born Die Hand Heart Nation Poet Politician Prosper
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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Have Hold Immature Liberty People Process Ruined Think Through

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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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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