Muhammad Iqbal Quotes - Page 3

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Poetic, Poet, Interest

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• 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, Unconditional Love, Discipline

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• Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  History, New Life, Gone

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Wise, Men, Literature

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Literature, Heirs

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Sea, Giving

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Glasses, Air, Dust

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Soul, Body

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Islam, India, Demand

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

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• Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Self, Criticism, Intellect

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, Jāvīd Iqbāl (2006). “Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mind, Violent, Type

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

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• I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Literature, Rivals, Poet

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• The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Truth Is, Communism, Prophet

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• 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

  Space, Infinity, Dimensions

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1979). “Discourses of Iqbal”

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• I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Destiny, Government, Self

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Letters of Iqbal”

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• 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

  Night, Two, Long

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1955). “Poems from Iqbal”, London : Murray. [1955]

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Ego, Determined, Individual

  Muhammad Iqbal (2010). “The Secrets of the Self”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Views, Foundation, Principles

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Decision, Agents

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Destiny, Clay

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• 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, Men, Energy

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1961). “The pilgrimage of eternity: being an English translation of Muhammad Iqbal's Javid nama by Shaikh Mahmud Ahmad. With a foreword by S. A. Rahman”

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  God, Humble, House

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• 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

  Life, People, Achievement

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• 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

  Men, Growth, Reason

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Hunting, Color, Heaven

  Muhammad Iqbal (2012). “Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)”, p.53, Taylor & Francis

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