Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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