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 More Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal More Quotes From Muhammad Iqbal Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. Muhammad Iqbal light-lifediversityambition Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. Muhammad Iqbal islamdestinysuffering 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 immediacyliteraturemean Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. Muhammad Iqbal faithfuldestinyliterature Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. Muhammad Iqbal fatedestinyblood I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism. Muhammad Iqbal rightsspiritualmen Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. Muhammad Iqbal spaceliteraturenight 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. Muhammad Iqbal disciplineunconditional-lovereligious 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 inquiryphilosophyreality But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. Muhammad Iqbal human-knowledgesourcehumans Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. Muhammad Iqbal selfseagiving The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. Muhammad Iqbal bodysoul The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. Muhammad Iqbal spacelimitsmind 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. Muhammad Iqbal foundationprinciplesviews We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses. Muhammad Iqbal humblegodhouse 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 destinyreligiousmoving Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. Muhammad Iqbal agentsfatedecision The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. Muhammad Iqbal kindliteratureprayer God is not a dead equation! Muhammad Iqbal equations The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. Muhammad Iqbal religiousmenreality
