Quotes from Muhammad Iqbal

The heart is like a mirror. Do not prevent it from being broken. It's breakage is more dearer in the sight of its maker [Allah], than its safety. Almighty Allah being indeed the Maker

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.

Ich hört' in meiner Bücherei des Nachts Den Bücherwurm den Schmetterling befragen: Ich habe mein Nest in Ibn Sinas Blättern, Bin in Farabis Manuskript beschlagen - Den Sinn des Lebens hab' ich nicht verstanden, Ganz sonnenlos leb' ich in finstern Tagen! Wie schön sprach darauf der halbverbrannte Falter: Nach diesem Punkt darfst du nicht Bücher fragen: Nur Fieberglut kann neues Leben bringen, Nur Fieberflut gibt deinem Leben Schwingen!

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life

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

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.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

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

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

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

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

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

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.

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

British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization.

But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.

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.