Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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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.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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