The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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