When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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