Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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