Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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Yet 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.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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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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