The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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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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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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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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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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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