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• 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

  Party, Law, Leader

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2005). “Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal”

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• let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Beautiful, Stars, Struggle

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• 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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Destiny, Blood

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Soul, Analogies, Body

  Jamila Khatoon, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1963). “The place of God, man, and universe in the philosophic system of Iqbal”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Aggravation, Understanding

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Country, Slave, Born

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Atoms, Slumber

  Muhammad Iqbal (2010). “The Secrets of the Self”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Real, Different

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• 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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Maturity, Ideas

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Oneness, Water, Soul

  Muhammad Iqbal (2012). “Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)”, p.65, Taylor & Francis

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Moon, Blood, Sky

  Muhammad Iqbal (2010). “The Secrets of the Self”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Doe, Lost, Ifs

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Giving, Vision, Doe

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2002). “Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Heart, Burning

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• It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Real, Mysterious, Ideals

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Night, Space, Literature

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• It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Loyalty, Mean, Expression

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2005). “Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal”

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• 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, Judging, Would Be

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Brahmins, Spending

  "Educational Thinkers". Book by V. R. Taneja and S. Taneja, 2006.

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Ego, Evolution

  "Stories and Biographies from Iqbal".

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• The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Two, Democracy

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Prayer, Literature, Kind

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2002). “Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction”

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• 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

  Character, Yield, Levels

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Space, Mind, Limits

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1964). “Gulshan-i rāz-i jadīd: (New garden of mystery) and Bandagi namah (Book of servitude)”

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• I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this or that portion of the earth, but as a spiritual being understood in terms of a social mechanism, and possessing rights and duties as a living factor in that mechanism.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Spiritual, Men, Rights

  Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, www.columbia.edu. December 29, 1930.

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