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 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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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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