Muhammad Iqbal's Quotes

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

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

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

Muhammad Iqbal

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal

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.

Muhammad Iqbal

Thus 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 Iqbal

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

Muhammad Iqbal