Words matter. These are the best Muhammad Iqbal Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
God is not a dead equation!
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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.
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.
Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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.
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
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.
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
