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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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.
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