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 IQBALNations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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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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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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