God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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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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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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