When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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