The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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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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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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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