Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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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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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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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