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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALAnother 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.
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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Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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I 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.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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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 ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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