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 IQBALIt 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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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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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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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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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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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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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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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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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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