Quotes By Muhammad Iqbal

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

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

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

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

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

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.

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.

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

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

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

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.

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.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

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.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

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

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

Since 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.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

God is not a dead equation!