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Default Some more quotes from Allam Iqbal

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

But to rationalize faith is not to admit the superiority of philosophy over religion.
Muhammad Iqbal

Conviction: Conviction enabled Abraham to wade into the fire; Conviction is an intoxicant which makes men self sacrificing; Know you, Oh victims of modern civilization!
Muhammad Iqbal

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

God is not a dead equation!
Muhammad Iqbal

God's destinies have no end... The fine wink is hidden in one word: If thou becomest different, it will also become different.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If your liver becomes blood through this your destiny, then ask God for another destiny. It is possible that you request from God another destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal

In the West, Intellect is the source of life, In the East, Love is the basis of life. Through Love, Intellect grows aquainted with Reality, And Intellect gives stability to the work of Love, Arise and lay the foundations of a new world, By wedding intellect to Love.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

It is time that I reopen the tavern of Rumi: the shaikhs of the Kaaba are lying drunk in the courtyard of the church..
Muhammad Iqbal

Lo, like a candle wrestling with the night... O'er my own self I pour my flooding tears... I spent my self, that there might be more light... More loveliness, more joy.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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

Psychologically speaking, all states, whether their content is religious or non-religious, are organically determined.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

Set not the chain of Fate upon thy foot. There is a way beyond this rolling sphere.
Muhammad Iqbal

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

Thou didst create the night, but I made the lamp. Thou didst create clay, but I made the cup. Thou didst create the deserts, mountains and forests, I produced the orchards, gardens and groves. It is I who made the glass out of stone, and it is I who turn a poison into an antidote.
Muhammad Iqbal

Thou doest not know thy own destiny and doest not know that it gets its worth from thee - otherwise the luminous ruby is only a piece of stone.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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

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

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

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Muhammad Iqbal

"Write your own history with your own hand
The nature has kept your forehead blank."

"Poverty is made more abject by asking
By begging, the beggar is made poorer"

"The courier's word got Love to commence proceedings
The intellect was still pondering over its meaning"

"The infidel with a wakeful heart praying to an Idol
Is better than a religious man asleep in the sanctuary"


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http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...mad_iqbal.html
http://www.cafemuslim.com/
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