Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALMan is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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