Zitat des Tages von Muhammad Iqbal:
God is not a dead equation!
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.
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.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
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.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
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.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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.
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.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
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.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
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.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious 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.
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.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.