Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
MUHAMMAD IQBALYet 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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