If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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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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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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 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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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God is not a dead equation!
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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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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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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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