Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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