Muhammad Iqbal

Poet

121 Quotes

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

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.

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.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

Hanya cinta yang dapat mengungkapkan rahasia terdalam kehidupan.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

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.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

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