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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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 scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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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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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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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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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 Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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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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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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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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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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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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
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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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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
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