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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALA 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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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 hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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