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
I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips
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.
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!
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
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.
The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.
I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.