Muhammad Iqbal Quotes About Islam

Quotes about: Islam

• Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Destiny, Suffering, Islam

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

• 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”

• 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”

• 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”

• 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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