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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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