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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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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.
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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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