The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPlants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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 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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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