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 IQBALBecome dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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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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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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