God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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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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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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