Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

• Thus 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.

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• Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

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• Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

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• Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

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• Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

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• People 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.

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• Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

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• Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

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• Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

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• If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

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• I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

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• I 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.

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• I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

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• I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

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• I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

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• God is not a dead equation!

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• Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

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• Destiny 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.

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• But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

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• Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

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Muhammad Iqbal (42)

Birth:	9th November, 1877
Death:	21st April, 1938
Nationality:	Pakistani
Profession:	Philosopher, Poet, Politician

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