Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
MUHAMMAD IQBALGod is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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