The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
-
-
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Yet 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL






