It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Muhammad IqbalThe 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.
Muhammad IqbalI have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
Muhammad IqbalI 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 IqbalBe aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.
Muhammad IqbalThat is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Muhammad IqbalThe 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 IqbalWhy hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
Muhammad IqbalWhy should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
Muhammad IqbalPreserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.
Muhammad IqbalUnbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
Muhammad IqbalPlants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
Muhammad IqbalDestiny 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 IqbalAnother 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.
Muhammad IqbalIt may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
Muhammad IqbalPeople 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 IqbalInductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
Muhammad IqbalThe 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.
Muhammad IqbalIf faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
Muhammad IqbalI am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Muhammad IqbalWhen truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
Muhammad IqbalConduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.
Muhammad IqbalThus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
Muhammad Iqballet this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
Muhammad IqbalMy ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
Muhammad IqbalLife is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.
Muhammad IqbalBe not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Muhammad IqbalThe 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 IqbalI have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.
Muhammad IqbalThe 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.
Muhammad IqbalA wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad IqbalLook at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since they take away the natural flare from the soul. Take it from me that all knowledge is useless until it is connected with your life, because the purpose of knowledge is nothing but to show you the splendors of yourself!
Muhammad IqbalThe wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
Muhammad IqbalThe 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
Muhammad IqbalPhysiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
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