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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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God is not a dead equation!
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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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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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
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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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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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