Muhammad Iqbal's Quotes
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Muhammad IqbalThou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Muhammad IqbalArt: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad IqbalThe Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Muhammad IqbalThe ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammad IqbalBut inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Muhammad IqbalIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Muhammad IqbalIndeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Muhammad IqbalYet 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 IqbalThe 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 IqbalI 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 IqbalInductive 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 IqbalIt 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 IqbalI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
Muhammad IqbalWhen truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Muhammad IqbalIf the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad IqbalWords, without power, is mere philosophy.
Muhammad IqbalVision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Muhammad IqbalPeople 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.
Muhammad IqbalThus 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.
Muhammad IqbalThe thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
Muhammad Iqbal