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 IQBALDivine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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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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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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