Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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