God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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