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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBe not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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