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Favorite Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

1. "Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
2. "When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
3. "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
4. "Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?" ~ Muhammad Iqbal
5. "God is not a dead equation!" ~ Muhammad Iqbal
6. "Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
7. "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
8. "Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
9. "Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
10. "But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
11. "The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
12. "Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
13. "Words, without power, is mere philosophy." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
14. "I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
15. "he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
16. "The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
17. "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
18. "Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
19. "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
20. "Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
21. "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
22. "Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
23. "Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?" ~ Muhammad Iqbal
24. "Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
25. "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
26. "The causality-bound aspect of Nature is not the whole truth. Ultimate Reality is invading our consciousness from other directions as well, and the purely intellectual method of overcoming Nature is not the only way." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
27. "The highest art is that which awakens our dormant will-force, and nerves us to face the trials of life manfully. All that brings drowsiness and makes us shut our eyes to reality around-on the mastery of which alone life depends?is a message of decay and death." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
28. "The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
29. "Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!" ~ Muhammad Iqbal
30. "I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,His burning candle consumed me - the moth;His wine overwhelmed my goblet,The master of Rum transmuted my earth to goldAnd set my ashes aflame." ~ Muhammad Iqbal
31. "But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave" ~ Muhammad Iqbal
32. "For centuries Eastern heart and intellect have been absorbed in the question ? Does God exist? I propose to raise a new question ? new, that is to say, for the East ? Does man exist?" ~ Muhammad Iqbal
33. "Since love first made the breast an instrumentOf fierce lamenting, by its flame my heartWas molten to a mirror, like a roseI pluck my breast apart, that I may hangThis mirror in your sightGaze you therein" ~ Muhammad Iqbal
34. "What is the character and general structure of the universe in which we live? Is there a permanent element in the constitution of this universe? How are we related to it? What place do we occupy in it, and what is the kind of conduct that befits the place we occupy? These questions are common to religion, philosophy, and higher poetry" ~ Muhammad Iqbal

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