God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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 ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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.
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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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