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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. "
Muhammad Iqbal
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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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" Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. "
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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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" 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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" Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. "
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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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" 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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" But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. "
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" Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. "
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" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
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" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "
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" Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. "
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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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" 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, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. "
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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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" Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. "
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