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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBecome dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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