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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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God is not a dead equation!
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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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.
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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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