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
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.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul.
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
It is absolutely certain that God does exist.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.
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.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.