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.
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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
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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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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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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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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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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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Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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