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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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