Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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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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