Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

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• Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Wisdom, Ocean, Islamic

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Life, Spiritual, Struggle

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Time, Past, Born

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Live Life, Bravery, Dies

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• 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

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Inspirational, Heart, Hands

  Khawaja Abdur Rahim, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1968). “Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Kings, Wings, Crow

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• Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Mere

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• I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Lips, Believer

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ego Problem

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

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• Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  People, Democracy

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• Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Teacher, Evil, Giving

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Enemy, Telling The Truth

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• It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Doe, Certain, God Does Exist

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1961). “Stray Reflections: A Note-book of Allama Iqbal”

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Thinking, Hands, People

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Light, History, Remembrance

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• But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Source, Humans, Human Knowledge

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

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Dust, Rising, World

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Surroundings, Dies, Ifs

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• Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Destiny, Suffering, Islam

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

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• Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Passion, Men, Instinct

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

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Path, Affection

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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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• 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 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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