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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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