Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

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Muhammad Iqbal

Profession : Poet

Birth : November 9, 1877

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

Muhammad Iqbal

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Muhammad Iqbal

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.

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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.

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

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

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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

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People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

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

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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.

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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

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Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal