Quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

About Muhammad Iqbal:

Sir Muhammad Iqbal is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages.
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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

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to the soul of man, but by the revelation of a new w...

Muhammad Iqbal

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 n...

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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.

Muhammad Iqbal

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

Muhammad Iqbal

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

Author Bio

  • NameMuhammad Iqbal
  • DescriptionUrdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
  • BornNovember 9, 1877
  • DiedApril 21, 1938
  • CountryPakistan; India
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer