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 IQBALSexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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