Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALDivine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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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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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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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
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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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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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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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A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
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