Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

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

Men, Thinking, Thought

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

Life, Best, History

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

Motivational, Ego, Aim

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

Die, Born, Hands

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
Muhammad Iqbal

Islam, Destiny, Suffer

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal

Human, Ego, May

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

Destiny, Faithful, Himself

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Light, Matter

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
Muhammad Iqbal

Time, Another, Days

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.
Muhammad Iqbal

Become, Air, Throw

God is not a dead equation!
Muhammad Iqbal

God, Dead, Equation

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

Truth, Poetry, Heart

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Muhammad Iqbal

Passion, Instinct, Governed

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.
Muhammad Iqbal

Understand, Destiny, Before

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Muhammad Iqbal

Experience, Knowledge, Human

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

Life, Faith, Religion

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

Long, Two, Brave

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

Experience, Whether, Exist

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

Moon, Blood, Seen

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

Men, Poetry, Object

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

Nature, Self, Might

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?
Muhammad Iqbal

Country, Why, Born

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

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Muhammad Iqbal

Power, Words, Philosophy

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
Muhammad Iqbal

God, Freedom, Ego

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Biography

Nationality: Pakistani

Type: Poet

Born: November 9, 1877

Died: April 21, 1938

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