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.
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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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