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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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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 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 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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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 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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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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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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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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