God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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