Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal
Sir Muhammad Iqbal, widely known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet, philosopher, and politician, as well as an academic, barrister and scholar in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is called the "Spiritual father of Pakistan". He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages...
NationalityPakistani
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth9 November 1877
CountryPakistan
Muhammad Iqbal quotes about
If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
God is not a dead equation!
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
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.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism
Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.