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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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 soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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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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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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