It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. Muhammad Iqbal More Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal More Quotes From Muhammad Iqbal 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 psychology impossible men 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 mirrors sight heart 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. Muhammad Iqbal dimensions infinity space 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 kind doe islands Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. Muhammad Iqbal violent type mind The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. Muhammad Iqbal different real religious 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. Muhammad Iqbal growth reason men It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. Muhammad Iqbal slumber atoms self 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 emotional acceptance religious The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures. Muhammad Iqbal sound heart adventure 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 foundation life-is long It is absolutely certain that God does exist. Muhammad Iqbal god-does-exist certain doe The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. Muhammad Iqbal crow kings wings Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings. Muhammad Iqbal surroundings dies ifs Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Muhammad Iqbal divine-order faithful literature Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. Muhammad Iqbal analogies body soul Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. Muhammad Iqbal conscious purpose literature If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal heirs literature men It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal. Muhammad Iqbal ideals mysterious real 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. Muhammad Iqbal yield levels character
