But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIn 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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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