The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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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