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Muhammad Iqbal Quotes
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Date of Birth:
November 9, 1877
Date of Death:
April 21, 1938
Nationality:
Pakistani
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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

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

God is not a dead equation!
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
Muhammad Iqbal

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

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

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

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