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.
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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
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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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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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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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.
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