Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALI 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.
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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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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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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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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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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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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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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