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Muhammad Iqbal Quotes | Quotes said by Muhammad Iqbal

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #1

    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.


  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #2

    Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #3

    But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #4

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

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #5

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

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #6

    From love's plectrum arises
    the song of the string of life
    Love is the light of life
    love is the fire of life

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #7

    he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #8

    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.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #9

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

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #10

    If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #11

    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.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #12

    Inductive 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 Iqbal Quote #13

    Iqbal, in seinem Poem Die Moschee von Cordoba- ein paar Verse daraus:

    Stein sei es, Farbe, sei's Ton:
    Wort sei es, Stimme, sei's Ton -
    Jegliches Wunder der Kunst
    wächst nur aus Herzensblut - seht!
    Ja, durch den Tropfen von Blut
    wird selbst der Felsen zum Herz;
    Ja, aus dem Herzblut, dem Leid,
    Lied, Sang und Klang erst entsteht.

    [aus Nimm eine Rose und nenne sie Lieder übersetzte Poesie der islamischen Völker von Annemarie Schimmel, insel Taschenbuch Ausgabe, S. 168]

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #14

    It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #15

    It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #16

    It 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 Iqbal Quote #17

    Ki Muhammad se wafa toonay to ham teray hain
    Ye jahan cheez hai kiya lauho qalam tere hain

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #18

    let 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 Iqbal Quote #19

    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.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #20

    Reh Gyi Rasm-e-Azan, Rooh-e-Bilali Na Rahi
    Falsafa Reh Gya, Talqeen-e-Ghazali Na Rahi

    Azan yet sounds, but never now Like Bilal’s, soulfully;
    Philosophy, conviction-less, Now mourns its Ghazzali

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #21

    The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insights of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to the soul of man, but by the revelation of a new world within his soul. Islam fully agrees with this insight and supplements it by the further insight that the illumination of the new world thus revealed is not something foreign to the world of matter but permeates it through and through.
    Thus the affirmation of spirit sought by Christianity would come not by the renunciation of external forces which are already permeated by the illumination of spirit, but by a proper adjustment of man's relation to these forces in view of the light received from the world within.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #22

    The new world is as yet
    behind the veil of destiny
    In my eyes, however
    its dawn has been unveiled

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #23

    The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #24

    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.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #25

    The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #26

    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.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #27

    The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #28

    The 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 Iqbal Quote #29

    When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.

  • Muhammad Iqbal Quote #30

    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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