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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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 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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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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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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.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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