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.
Interpretation
Understanding life as a coherent whole takes time and is influenced by a society's engagement with global events.
In this quote, Muhammad Iqbal suggests that developing a holistic understanding of life is a gradual process that requires a collective awareness and involvement in the significant happenings of the world. This perception is not innate but rather cultivated through shared experiences and connections to larger societal trends and transformations.
In practice
In a discussion about cultural awareness, one might say, 'As Muhammad Iqbal pointed out, understanding life as an organic unity takes time.'
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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.
To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.
Morality is stronger than tyrants.
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
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