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.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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.
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.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
