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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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 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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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