Quotes By Muhammad Iqbal

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

God is not a dead equation!

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Thus 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.

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

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.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.