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  Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the divine orders.

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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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• But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

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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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• It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

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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 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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• The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

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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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• 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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• S*xual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

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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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• Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

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• Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

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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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• 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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• A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

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• The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

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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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• 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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Muhammad Iqbal (42)

Birth:	9th November, 1877
Death:	21st April, 1938
Nationality:	Pakistani
Profession:	Philosopher, Poet, Politician

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