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Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

Muhammad Iqbal

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Muhammad Iqbal
Age: 60 †
Born: 1877
Born: November 9
Died: 1938
Died: April 21
Lawyer
Philosopher
Poet
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Sir Muhammad Iqbal
Allama Iqbal
Muhammed İkbal
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The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.
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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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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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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
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We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.
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British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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