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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

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

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

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Purpose, Literature, Conscious

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

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