Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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