The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThough the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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