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 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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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