Since 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 IQBALThe ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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