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 IQBALAnother 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 IQBALThe immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThus 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIt 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPlants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
MUHAMMAD IQBALVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPeople 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWater before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBALConduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
MUHAMMAD IQBALArt: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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