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• 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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Long, Foundation, Life Is

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• Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Divine Order, Faithful, Literature

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• The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Reality, Men

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Purpose, Literature, Conscious

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• 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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Literature, Immediacy

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Glasses, Alchemist, Pharaohs

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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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Islands, Doe, Kind

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Moving, Destiny

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Country, Men, Sky

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• God is not a dead equation!

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Equations

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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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Psychology, Impossible

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Reality, Inquiry

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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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Heart, Mirrors, Sight

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