Quotes By Muhammad Iqbal

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

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

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.

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.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.