The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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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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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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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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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 possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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