Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
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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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Art: 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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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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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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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