If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALYet 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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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