I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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