Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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 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 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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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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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 standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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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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