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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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