Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThat 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.
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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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 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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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 aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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