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 IQBALPhysiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
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Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
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The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
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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.
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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.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
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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.
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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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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.
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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.
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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
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Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.
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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.
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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.
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God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
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Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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God is not a dead equation!
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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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.
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