Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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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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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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