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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWords, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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