Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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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 have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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