Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
-
-
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBAL