Quotes from Muhammad Iqbal

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

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.

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

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.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

God is not a dead equation!

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

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

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

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

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

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.

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

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

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

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.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.