I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
More Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
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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.
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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 thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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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.
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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
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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 spirit of his message.
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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
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Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
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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.
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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects.
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That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
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The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
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Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
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Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
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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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I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
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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?
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Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions…
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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.
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Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.
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It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.
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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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