The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPhysiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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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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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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