Muhammad Iqbal Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Muhammad Iqbal (random)
- Books & Videos:
- Muhammad Iqbal Books & Videos
- Type:
- Poet
- Nationality:
- Pakistani
- Birth Date / Year:
- November 9, 1877
- Death Date / Year:
- April 21, 1938
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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God is not a dead equation! Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 no reference to experience. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy. Muhammad Iqbal | Refcard PDF ↑
