When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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A 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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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