Quotes by 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.”

“Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spiri...”

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

“Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.”

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

“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”

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

“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.”

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

“But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave.”

“Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your individual and collective action, however directed on material ends, in the light of the ideal which y...”

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

“Diyar-e-Ishq Mein Apna Maqam Paida Kar,Naya Zamana, Naye Subah-o-Sham Paida Kar;Khuda Agar Dil-e-Fitrat Shanas De Tujh Ko,Sakoot-e-Lala-o-Gul Se Kalaam Paida Kar;Mera Tareeq Ameeri Nahin, Faqeeri H...”

“Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal.”

“Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your individual and collective action, however directed on material ends, in the light of the ideal which y...”

“To this convention you must re-state as clearly and as strongly as possible, the political objective of Indian Muslims as a distinct political unit in the country. It is absolutely necessary to tel...”

“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 n...”

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

“Muhammad of Arabia ascended the highest Heaven and returned. I swear by God that if I had reached that point, I should never have returned. These are the words of a great Muslim saint, ‘Abd al-Qudd...”

“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity – by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific eth...”