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 IQBALArt: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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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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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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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
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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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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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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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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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