Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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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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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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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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