I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALI have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
MUHAMMAD IQBALWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
MUHAMMAD IQBALAnother 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThat 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPeople 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 IQBALWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
MUHAMMAD IQBALThus 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALIn 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALPhysiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBALBut the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.
MUHAMMAD IQBALGod is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBALThe 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.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL