Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPlants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPeople 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThough the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBe not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
MUHAMMAD IQBALEnds and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALGod is not a dead equation!
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIndeed, 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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