Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Plants, Predestination, Minerals

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Reason, Other, Which, Modes

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

May, However, Which, Yield

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Religious Experience, Another Way

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Nature, Might, Itself, Manifest

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Always, Religious, Religious 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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Original, Modern Man, Significance

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Kind, Which, Finite, Mutually Exclusive

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Islam, Interest, Muslim, Consolidated

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Inspirational, Entangled, Time And Space

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Destiny, Own, Putting, Aspirations

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Beginning, Thought, Will, Whence

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Men, Heir, Then, Prophecy

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Soul, Universe, Contact, Analogy

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Country, Made, Which, Thou

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Art, Nor, Thee, Thou

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Other, Means, Having, Immediacy

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Will, Glass, Thee, Stone

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Prayer, Act, Observer, Seeker

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Process, Over, Likely, Ruined

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Lost, Security, Does, Adhere

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

King, Falcon, Brings, Wing

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Two, Grave, Brief, Brief Moment

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Mind, Concrete, Violent, Psychologically

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

- Muhammad Iqbal

Nature, Sky, Veins, Sinews

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Religious, Which, Period, Unconditional

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Experience, Only, Source, Human Knowledge

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Leader, My Life, Given, Best Part

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Through, Which, Thus, Passing

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.

- Muhammad Iqbal

Achievement, Depends, Main, Organic

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