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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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 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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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 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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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