The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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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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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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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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