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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. "

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Muhammad Iqbal

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" Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. "

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

" Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. "

" But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. "

" Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. "

" The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. "

" Words, without power, is mere philosophy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? "

Muhammad Iqbal

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" The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. "

" I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. "

" 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. "

" It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. "

" Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. "

" Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. "

" Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. "

" It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. "

" Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. "

" 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. "

" But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. "

" The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. "

" Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? "

" 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. "

" 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. "