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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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 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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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