The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
MUHAMMAD IQBALRise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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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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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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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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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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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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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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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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