I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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