If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
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The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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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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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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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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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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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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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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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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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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
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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.
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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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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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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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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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