Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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.
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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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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.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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