Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

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

People who have no hold over their process of thinking ara likely to be ruined by liberty of thought.

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

Alas for a love whose fire is extinct,
A love that was born in the Holy Place and died in the house of idols!

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

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

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

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

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

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

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass
But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint
Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

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

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

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

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

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

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

I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained."
He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire!

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

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

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

From love's plectrum arises
the song of the string of life
Love is the light of life
love is the fire of life

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

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

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

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.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

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

Who am I? Who art Thou? Where is the world?

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

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

Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory

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.

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

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

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

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

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

The new world is as yet
behind the veil of destiny
In my eyes, however
its dawn has been unveiled

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

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

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

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

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

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

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

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

-To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

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

The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

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

The highest stage of Man's ethical progress is reached when he becomes absolutely free from fear and grief.

God is not a dead equation!

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

Maa tujhe salaam
pher lete hai nazar jis waqt bete or bahu..
ajnabi apne hi ghar me hae ban jati hai maaa..

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

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

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

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

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

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

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