Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALThat is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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.
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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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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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