I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDivine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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 lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Thus 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.
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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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