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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But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal

God is not a dead equation!

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

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

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Muhammad Iqbal

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.

Muhammad Iqbal

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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.

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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

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

Muhammad Iqbal

Author Bio

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