I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALYet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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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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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 wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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