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
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.
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.
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.
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.
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
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.
The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain
Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.