The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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