The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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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 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.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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