Quotes By Muhammad Iqbal

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.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

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

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

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.

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

But 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.

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

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.

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.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

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.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

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.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

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.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

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

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

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

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?