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 IQBALBut 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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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