The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
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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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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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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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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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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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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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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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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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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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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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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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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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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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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