Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALEnds and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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 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.
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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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