If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Quote by Muhammad Iqbal
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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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Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
- 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.
- Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
- 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.
- 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.
- When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
- 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.
- 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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