If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
MUHAMMAD IQBALSince 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
-
-
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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 -
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
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 -
The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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 -
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 -
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL -
Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL






