“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
Poetry
“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
NatureAll Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal
“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.”
Experience“When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.”
Poetry“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.”
Experience“God is not a dead equation!”
God“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.”
Power“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.”
Experience“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.”
Experience“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.”
Alone“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
Faith“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.”
Power“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.”
Alone“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.”
Religion“Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.”
Experience“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.”
Health“I 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.”
Best“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
Nature“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.”
Men“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”
Experience“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
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