Source: Zarb-e-Kaleem: Armagan-e-Hijaz
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Famous Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
Source: Baal-e-Jibreel
Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal
Source: Letters of Iqbal
“Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism”
Source: Stray Reflections: The Private Notebook of Muhammad Iqbal
“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.”
Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”
Source: Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow
Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal
“Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.”
Source: Discourses of Iqbal
Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal
“Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.”
Source: Iqbal centenary papers
“Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.”
“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”
Source: The religious thought in Islam
Source: The Secrets of the Self
“It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.”
Source: The Secrets of the Self
“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.”
Source: Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction
“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
Source: The Secrets of the Self
Source: Poems from Iqbal
“Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.”
Source: Iqbal centenary papers
Source: The religious thought in Islam
“Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.”
“The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.”
Source: Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction
“The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.”
Source: The place of God, man, and universe in the philosophic system of Iqbal
“I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.”
Source: Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction
Source: Iqbal centenary papers
“Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.”
Source: The religious thought in Islam
“Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.”
“The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.”
Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal
Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal