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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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 have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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