God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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